More songs by Damiano David
Description
There are encounters after which the world seems to spin at a different angle - brighter, louder, with no possibility of returning to the previous rhythm. Everything becomes an overdose: feelings, breathing, even the light from the street lamps. And no matter how many countries, nights, and attempts to “feel again” there are afterwards, everything fades in comparison to that very moment when it first became truly alive.
The song sounds like an echo of a memory that still tickles the nervous system. It's not about love - it's about dependence on a feeling that is higher than any chemistry or revelation. A little tragic, a little beautiful: when everything has burned down, but the memory still glows, like a spark that still won't let it go out.
Lyrics and translation
Original
I thought my heart had felt it all
I swam for miles across the ocean
Never met the shore
My eyes were closed, my highs were lows
Just gettin' drunk on pills and potions
Cravin' something more
Traveled the world but it got me nowhere
Nothing could ever compare
A kiss, a touch, a song that made me cry
And all the drugs I've done, they never got me higher
Than the first time we met
There's nothing like the first time we met
I crashed my car, oh, baby, I was flyin'
And I talked to God, He couldn't get me higher
Than the first time we met
There's nothing like the first time, the first time we met
That night, the stars aligned, Heaven dropped a line
Before you, I was just a flare in the sky
A kid too afraid to go to play in the light
A colorless painter, a man with no sight
Before you, I was nothin', was nothin'
Had nothin', I only had
A kiss, a touch, a song that made me cry
And all the drugs I've done, they never got me higher
Than the first time we met
There's nothing like the first time we met
I crashed my car, oh, baby, I was flyin'
And I talked to God, He couldn't get me higher
Than the first time we met
There's nothing like the first time, the first time we met
You set the room on fire
You take the angels higher
I heard a thousand choirs
Oh, baby, you ain't seen nothing yet
Traveled the world, it got me nowhere
Nothing could ever compare
A kiss, a touch, a song that made me cry
The drugs I've done, they never got me higher
Than the first time we met
There's nothing like the first time we met
And when I crashed my car, oh, baby, I was flyin'
And I talked to God, He couldn't get me higher
Than the first time we met
There's nothing like the first time, the first time we met
The first time we met
The first time we met
There's nothing like the first time, the first time we met