First Time

Intro C# [Verse 1] C# G# Remember once I told you about D#m7 How before I heard it from your mouth C# G# D#m7 My name would always hit my ears as such an awful sound C# G# And the soul, if that's what you'd call it D#m7 C# G# Uneasy ally of the body, it felt nameless as a river F# D#m7 Undiscovered underground [Pre-Chorus] C# G# And the first time that you kissed me D#m7 I drank dry the River Lithe C# G# D#m7 The Liffey would have been softer on my stomach all the same C# G# But you spoke some quick new music D#m7 That went so far to soothe this soul C# G# D#m7 As it was and ever shall be, unearth without a name Chorus C# G# D#m7 Some part of me must have died C# G# F# The first time that you called me, "Baby" C# G# D#m7 And some part of me came alive C# G# F# The first time that you called me, "Baby" [Verse 2] C# G# D#m7 These days I think I owe my life to flowers C# To flowers that were left here by my mother G# F# Ain't that like them, giftin' life to you again C# G# This life lived mostly underground D#m7 Unknowin' either sight nor sound C# G# F# 'Til reachin' up for sunlight just to be ripped out by the stem [Pre-Chorus] C# G# Sensing only now it's dyin' D#m7 Drying out, then drowning blindly C# G# Bloomin' forth its every colour F# In the moments it has left C# G# To share the space with simple living things D#m7 C# G# Infinitely suffering, but fighting off like all creation F# The absence of itself, anyway Chorus C# G# D#m7 Some part of me must have died C# G# F# Each time that you called me, "Baby" C# G# D#m7 But some part of me stayed alive C# G# F# Each time that you called, each time that you called Bridge C# Come here G# D#m7 Ooh-la-la, ooh-la-la C# G# F# Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around C# G# D#m7 Ooh-la-la, come here, ooh-la-la C# G# F# Whatever keeps you around, it keeps you around [Verse 3] C# G# The last time it was heard out loud D#m7 C# The perfect genius of our hands and mouths were shocked G# F# To resignation as the arguing declined C# G# When I was young I used to guess D#m7 Are there limits to any emptiness? C# G# When was the last time F# Come here to me, when was the last time? Chorus C# G# D#m7 Some part of me must have died C# G# F# The final time that you called me, "Baby" C# G# D#m7 But some part of me came alive C# G# F# The final time you called me, "Baby"