My Time Outside the Womb Lyrics

Lyric discussion by leonyc1 

Cover art for My Time Outside the Womb lyrics by Titus Andronicus

i think the first lyric is "the first thing you see is a lie" (meaning that the first thing you see in life is your mother's womb, which turns out not to have much to do with what life is actually about.

just my theory, could be wrong.

the first thing you see is light, because inside a womb it is dark... duh