Emmy the Great - < First Love >
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Well you didn’t stop
When I told you to stop
And there was a month
That I wasn't sure
The next time I saw you
Out on the river
I'd have something to say
Other than "pay me all of the money you owe"
I would have liked to
To have something above you
To have something to hold
And know I could choose to grow
I would've called you
And I'd have said "hey
You know I'm in control
I'll let you know if you have to come and choose a name"
Well, I am a woman,you know I am a woman
But before I met you
I was only a kid
You know
When you thought you would break me
But you wanted to take me
So you did.
And I will think of you now
That we are apart
I've put my hand across my gut
I plan to beat it with a heart
I'm not the girl you remember from the start
I was only a baby
Now I'm what you made me
For once, you hit me in the spot
Twice, you let it fall
And once I tried to make a light
To keep myself in yours
Do you think of me
When you are playing the one and five in four
is country music
what your life is for?
we almost had a baby.
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I remember how we met
but your name I forget
like the door that I have kept unopened
I remember it was wet
and the swelt and the sweat
and the shelter of the bed we slept on
You were stroking me like a pet
but you didn’t own me yet
and the tape in the cassette deck was choking
Spat out a broken hallelujah
But I’ve seen the way the earth
throws its aces with a curve
You were waiting for the words
to come to yer.
Just to say that you prefer to be lonely
to be cursed
and to do the very worst you can do.
Yeah I remember you like a verse
that I didn’t want to learn
I just looked into your eyes
and I knew yer.
Now the thought of you is burnt
on my body from the first time you did rewind that line from Hallelujah.
The original Leonard Cohen version.
Well I wish I never met you that day
You said I have a room and music to play
I have a room let me show you the way
I wish that I’d never come
But now that I have, I would do it again
I would forget that I’d piss on a grave
I would forget that I’d piss on a grave
and the words as they came to my tongue were hallelujah. Hallelujah!
And the sky was so much bluer
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
And the world was so much newer.
You said I have a room
at the top of the stairs
I have a room with a view
I know we all have a cross that we bear
and I’d like to show it to you.
And you left me in the light
and you met me in the light
and we only had a night between the two.
You were waiting for the worst
You were listening for a curse
but the only thing I heard was hallelujah.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
And the sky was so much bluer
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
And the world was so much newer.
you said I have a room
at the top of the stairs.
I have a room with a view.
I know we all have a cross that we bear
and I’d like to give it to you.
And I won’t forget how the sky was set
I said I have a place to go back to.
La La La I will have you yet
I will carry you there if I have to.
No I won’t forget no I won’t.
No I won’t forget no I won’t
No I won’t forget no I won’t
No I won’t forget no.
Woah. Woah. Woah. W-o-o-o-ah.
First love.
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Everything reminds me of you,
Somewhere out roaming tonight,
You fought the bottle, and I
Came out behind.
Now everything reminds me of you,
Tonight,
Oh but the fire,
Will carry less higher,
In time.
And the drinks have been drunk,
And the ships have been sunk,
And the barmaids are going to bed.
Oh but my memory,
Is alive as the sea,
Coming over the shoreline
Like a breath.
Everything reminds me of you,
Somewhere out roaming tonight,
You fought the bottle, and I
Came out behind.
You were gone in a breeze
Like the heart that was squeezing
Too tight.
Oh but the fire,
Will carry less higher,
In time.
And the drinks have been drunk,
And the ships have been sunk,
And the barmaids are going to bed.
Oh but my memory,
Is alive as the sea,
Coming over the shoreline
Like a breath.
Everything reminds me of you,
Somewhere out roaming tonight.
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