[00:00.000] 作词 : Neil McDonald/Ellen Renton
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Neil McDonald
[00:07.171]I must be the first
[00:11.324]Surely no one has let the cold jeg their knees
[00:15.034]Quite happily
[00:17.751]Lined up a ruler against the seam
[00:20.676]Where the sky on a too-full stomach
[00:23.053]Tucks itself into the sea
[00:27.129]Only I see the water
[00:30.812]Sugar-glazed to stillness
[00:33.293]Like two taps with a spoon
[00:35.409]Would split its lid in two
[00:39.380]The wind that burls me
[00:41.235]Does not feel second hand
[00:44.369]It’s as true as a first-word
[00:47.530]That repaints the front room it cuts through
[00:52.650]Sounds stretched to an echo
[00:55.262]So no one remembers how language used to land
[01:00.252]The sand
[01:02.159]Is out the packet new
[01:05.842]Branded with my shoes
[01:11.563]Maybe the sun is knackered too
[01:15.847]Like each of us
[01:17.728]Wrapped up in our work, and ourselves
[01:21.411]Dreaming of being shelled by our backpacks
[01:24.702]And swallowed by the beach
[01:28.595]Maybe it's a parent
[01:30.684]Too tired to keep playing
[01:32.983]That lies through their teeth
[01:36.536]Because all pain is small change
[01:38.939]In the cost of wonder
[01:43.693]Rising somewhere else while we see it sleep
[01:48.787]Returning its light
[01:50.564]In the nick of time
[01:53.463]So that not a grain is lost
[01:57.120]Not a bloat of cloud burst
[02:00.778]Not a wave out of place
[02:05.192]I must be the first
[02:11.436]Everything I have
[02:12.977]Was given to me clean
[02:16.712]Like the sky burns just to blush my face
[02:22.590]I have held it up
[02:25.385]Ungloved
[02:28.546]Crushed seaweed beneath me
[02:32.151]Breathed in the beach until I have a new set of lungs
[02:37.767]But I have never wiped sunrise down my jumper
[02:41.189]To get rid of fingerprints
[02:45.656]I never took my shoes off as I came in