Love is a First

The Tragically Hip · We Are the Same [2009]

I've been interpreted and shrunk

I've been as touchless as a drunk



This is as bad as or worse as bad as or worse

This is as bad as or worse as bad as or worse



Love is a curse (That he who would own it deserves)

Love is a curse (You get what you give not deserve)



I know I know this is all just first blurts that

he who would try to own it deserves it

And I know it's got nothing to do with 'deserves it'

It's just that you don't just blurt,

Love is a curse Love is a curse Love is a curse

You don't just blurt, Love is a curse



Though I've been too weak to escape

And I don't have the strength to pluck a grape



Though it's as bad as worse as bad as or worse

Though it's as bad as or worse as bad as or worse



Love is a first (I've felt the dull fangs of the truth)

Love is a first (I've heard the music they torture to)

Love is a first (I saw Old Power enforced)

Love is a first (I was more the Devil Of Darkness' horse)



I drank the poison from the source

And smoked that murder fell on the floor

And watched the near-death of your TV

And dreamed its darkly nurtured dreams

And drained my ocean of its worth

Like God's representatives on earth

Learned how to hurt and how not to hurt

The thing you taught me what I learned?

Love is a first



Though it's as bad as or worse as bad as or worse

As bad as or worse as bad as or worse



Love is a curse (That he who would own it deserves)

Love is a first (Though it occurs and occurs)

Love is a curse (You get what you give not deserve)

Love is a first (Love just occurs and occurs)



Love is a first