Slowly Slowly - First Love lyrics

First loves don’t leave you, the needles & pins My phantom limb likes to cry full of gin She’s a molten mistake, lightning blue at the wake She just hangs tight And i meant what i said at the foothills Won’t you walk me, talk with me, give me tonight Ancient ruins bullied by sky scraper lights Hungry & homeless i creep into the glow of it’s Lonely, dying flame, i think i want to Be the memory that you turn to When you’re drunk & your empty ‘cause you’re mine But at the same time i want to forget you Take a gun to the mantle And spin myself into a storm of grey skies I’ll climb all the trees and i’ll pray for a lightning strike Tamed into numbness, it’s what i have become since The person you recognize First loves conditioned like poisonous fate With optimism we just contradict Was i just your mistake, cinnamon to the taste Bitter but graceful You know i meant what i said in the moment But now i’m pendulum sentiments, swaying while i cry Destined for abattoirs, lovers only live A penny for your thoughts, i would kill for a kiss First loves are lethal, dilute all you like Reticent discontent laboured in stride Hear the acid rain dripping down the water pipes to the ocean floor And i meant what i said you’re an angel You were sent to me, carefully right at the time That i needed a petal to throw into the fire Something pretty and impermanent that i could admire