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"The Very First Time" - off Matt Butler's debut album Reckless Son - Full Lyrics Below

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The Very First Time

I remember when I first saw you
The school girl skirt and the cigarette in your hand
Singing Born To Run
You said your dad was drunk and your mom was gone

I was slinging some dope on the corners
I was only a boy trying to be a man
That was all I knew
And I’d never had someone to call my own

So we got blasted from a cannon in the middle of the dark
Like a quarter stick of dynamite in Riverside park,

And I held you tight to the beat of my heart
While you whispered that nothing would ever keep us apart

Swore I’d take care of you,
Goddamn, I swear I tried but baby I just wasn’t able to

We’re at the mercy of what sets us free,
Remember falling in love for the very first time?
Remember getting high for the very first time?
This aint the way that this was meant to be,
Remember falling in love for the very first time,
Remember getting high for the very first time

Begged half of the year on the trains,
Grand Central winter or the dope sick New York rain,
Just playing the game,
Making just enough to kill the pain

I caught a charge, wound up in a cell
Detox in prison for a brand new personal hell
Left you with just your body to sell
From the darkness of some cheap hotel

I said this aint no way for anybody to live,
But can you ever forget or
Can you ever forgive me baby?

So when I get back we’ll both stay clean,
Get on public assistance, now that I’m 18

We swore we wouldn’t use,
But goddamn, we’ve done everything we swore we would never do

We’re at the mercy of what sets us free,
Remember falling in love for the very first time?
Remember getting high for the very first time?
This aint the way that this was meant to be,
Remember falling in love for the very first time,
Remember getting high for the very first time

When I got out I knew where to find you,
You said to meet in park where we first made love
I ran the whole way

Sure enough, that’s where I found you,
With blue lips and a face as white as a dove
The needle on the ground where you lay

And I held you as I tried to pray,
But there was nothing,
just nothing that I could say

We’re at the mercy of what sets us free,
Remember falling in love for the very first time?
Remember getting high for the very first time?
This aint the way that this was meant to be,
Remember falling in love for the very first time,
Remember getting high for the very first time