My First Heartbreak

I saw you standing by the lifeguard stand

Salt in your hair, shoes full of sand

The tide rolled in like it always does

But something in your eyes felt dangerous

You traced our names in the shoreline foam

Said some goodbyes hit close to home

I knew right then, before you turned away

Some broken truth was on its way

And I tried to hold the moment still

But every wave moved against my will

First heartbreak in Brighton town

That's the day my world fell down

I felt the wind cut right through me

A goodbye I wasn't ready to see

First heartbreak, I felt it start

Like the ocean pulling at my heart

We walked the shoreline in the fading heat

Your shadow drifting far from my feet

You said"we're growing in different ways"

But growth feels cruel on summer days

The pier lights flickered like they were unsure

And every step felt less and less like yours

I tried to laugh, but the moment knew —

We were ending, and we both felt it too

And every truth we never said

Hung in the air like something dead

First heartbreak in Brighton town

That's the day my world fell down

I felt the wind cut right through me

A goodbye I wasn't ready to see

First heartbreak, I felt it start

Like the ocean pulling at my heart

Every time I ride past that place

I feel your breeze run across my face

Like a whisper from a younger year

Telling me the truth is near

And though the pain has learned to fade

Some memories never wash away

Now when the gulls cry over the bay

I'm carried right back to that day

I'm older now, but I still believe

Some losses never fully leave

You were the moment I broke in two

The kind that shapes the rest of you

Brighton remembers what I became

A boy learning heartbreak by name

First heartbreak in Brighton town

Yeah, that's the day my world fell down

But somehow love keeps pulling me

Back to who I used to be

First heartbreak — I still recall

How something perfect learns to fall

But looking back, I finally see

That fall was leading back to me

Waves keep rolling, soft and slow

Some things end so we can grow

Brighton still holds that younger me

The one who learned to set love free