There the First Time - Matthew Good

Get a good run at it

Whip the horse and rattle

The station of state a bit

A universe of battle

Every second a sun

Somewhere one dies

No heaven’s heir apparent

There the first time

Well I know this feeling

I get it all the time

Every second a sun

Somewhere one dies

Time to get on with it

The prison and the shackles

Colonize you brick by brick

Leading by example

Sun up, sun down

Two hundred species die

Crawled off a cliff

There the first time

Well I know the reasons

I use them all the time

From sun up to sun down

I believe in the power of an ocean

A trillion miles bereaved

But there the first time

There the first time

Sun up, to sun down…

There the first time…