Love Is a First - The Tragically Hip

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 or 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

Lke God’s representatives on the earth

Learned how to hurt and how not to hurt

And the thing you taught me, what I learned?

Love is a first

Though it’s as bad as or worse

Love is a first

As bad as or worse

Love is a first

As bad as or worse

Love is a first

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

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

Lke God’s representatives on the earth

Learned how to hurt and how not to hurt

And the thing you taught me, what I learned?

Love is a first