First Time

(i never found love hard to find

Always had somebody by my side

When I look at you

It feels

Like the first time)

Look to the left

Twirling your hair

Biting your lip, one hand on your hip

What are you thinking of?

I used to believe that love was just a fairytale

A will-o-the-wisp

A phantom

well, that was until I met you

You're like a sculpture by a sculptor that was sculpted

by a master by a visionary by a poet who can sculpt

What she feels

Who took the vision of perfection

And in creation

Made her inspiration

Tantalising

Tangible and

Actual and

Physical and

Real

(chorus)

nothing lasts forever

I guess it's for the better

it's fleeting, it's brutal, it's thuggish, it's ugly, it's short

And to live a life of beauty against the static hum of

horror, to be kind and to be humble is the greatest and

the best retort

I was 17

She was sitting on the passenger side looking out at

the sea

With the sun in her eyes

She turned her head

And smiled sweetly at me

You were nothing to me and

I was nothing to you

How many nights have passed

How vast the oceans that lie between?

Ain't it funny how a memory can haunt you through

the years and out of nothing come to life with the

vividness of

A dream