First Time - Matt Nathanson

I'm ready to embrace this 
I'm ready for repair
I've got so many layers 
Left by amateur painters 
who covered over 
what was there

I stuffed myself sick on your memory 
And the beautiful mess we'd made
But I'm so tired of being inspired 
Only when things slip away


They told me time would strip it all free 
And leave me bone dry
They told me time would strip it all free 
But I'm no better than
When I left here the first time


I'm ready to erase this
I'm ready to begin
Spent myself trying to change 
All of the beauty we'd made
just to want it all back again

And with the clouds moving in
this hardly looks like the same moon
And with the leaves all gone 
The trees that once stood strong
now look pinched and cruel


They told me time would strip it all free 
And leave me bone dry
They told me time would strip it all free 
But I'm no better than
When I left here the first time

Well I'm no better than when I left here the first
First time

First tiiiimeeee

They told me time would strip it all free 
And leave me bone dry
They told me time would strip it all free 
But I'm no better than
When I left here the first time

Well I'm no better than when i left here the first time
Well I'm no better than when I left here the first
Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmmeeeeeee
Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmmeeeeeee
Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmmeeeeeee