This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Sometimes I feel I'm pulled in so many wrong directions
Sometimes I feel the world seducing my affections
It's not that I don't know the way
It's just a heart that's prone to stray
But with my weaknesses admitted
You will keep all that I've committed
So I commit my heart to you
My first love
First love, first love
My soul longs after you
First love, my first love
I want my heart to stay so true
Because you first loved me
Jesus, you will always be
You will always be
My first love
It's taken me some time to try to comprehend
A love that doesn't change, a love without an end
A love that keeps forgiving
A love of sacrifice and giving
I delight myself in you
My first love
First love, first love
My soul longs after you
First love, my first love
I want my heart to stay so true
Because you first loved me
Jesus, you will always be
You will always be
My first love
If I ever lack endurance
I remember your assurance
That your only banner over me is love
If my heart begins to waiver
Woo me back, my loving Savior
Woo me back 'til I return to my first love
First love, first love
My soul longs after you
First love, my first love
I want my heart to stay so true
Because you first loved me
Jesus, you will always be
You will always be
My first love
You will always be
My first love
Sometimes I feel the world seducing my affections
It's not that I don't know the way
It's just a heart that's prone to stray
But with my weaknesses admitted
You will keep all that I've committed
So I commit my heart to you
My first love
First love, first love
My soul longs after you
First love, my first love
I want my heart to stay so true
Because you first loved me
Jesus, you will always be
You will always be
My first love
It's taken me some time to try to comprehend
A love that doesn't change, a love without an end
A love that keeps forgiving
A love of sacrifice and giving
I delight myself in you
My first love
First love, first love
My soul longs after you
First love, my first love
I want my heart to stay so true
Because you first loved me
Jesus, you will always be
You will always be
My first love
If I ever lack endurance
I remember your assurance
That your only banner over me is love
If my heart begins to waiver
Woo me back, my loving Savior
Woo me back 'til I return to my first love
First love, first love
My soul longs after you
First love, my first love
I want my heart to stay so true
Because you first loved me
Jesus, you will always be
You will always be
My first love
You will always be
My first love
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First Love Lyrics as written by Robert Hartman John Elefante
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