I Want You to Be the First One to Know

歌詞

When it could be said That I'm not in time with what's in front of me Well who should I turn to When there's so many things we should go through Back when we first met There was a storm off Chebucto Head And some people I didn't like And there's someone here that you and I recognize She's not you It's not me It's just a bit of everybody else And all the others they surround It won't do It can't be When is it time for winter's white to melt For all the people in this town If I never considered A little drop in the pressure that defines me as human I try not to let it go You never tell by the pick of the litter It keeps coming back in the tides and swells And there's nothing to hold it at bay I figured you knew that And who stood up, was there anybody out there I never thought to ask It made the time pass Knowing that I didn't care I'm wishing for some other chances There wasn't time to review all the circumstances Of all the particular sounds Converging around us And then the sky's gone out Was on a record player in the middle of the city On a song that I never enjoyed Until I got older So you carried it up to the finish And that version of yourself began to diminish And nobody saw it go down And I thought I knew you She isn't you It wasn't me It was a bit of everybody else And all the others they surround It won't do It can't be When is it time for winter's white to melt For all the people in this town Never, not again Will I commit to looking carefully back At places I didn't go When there's so many people I'll never know