First Love chords by Slowly Slowly

🎸 Verse 1:
B
First loves don't leave you, the needles & pins

My phantom limb likes to cry full of gin
        G                         Gm
She's a molten mistake, lightning blue at the wake
          G
She just hangs tight
       Cm7
And I meant what I said at the foothills
          Bmaj7
Won't you walk me, talk with me, give me tonight
         Cm7
Ancient ruins bullied by sky scraper lights
 Bmaj7
Hungry & homeless I creep into the glow of it's

G
Lonely, dying flame,


🎸 Chorus:
          C
I think I want to
        C              G
Be the memory that you turn to
            Fm             G            C
When you're drunk and your empty 'cause you're mine
            C                   G
But at the same time I want to forget you
        Fm         G
Take a gun to the mantle
     C                  C
And spin myself into a storm of grey skies
      G                           Fm         G
I'll climb all the trees and I'll pray for a lightning strike
C           C                         G
Tamed into numbness, it's what I have become since
    Fm          G       C
The person you recognise


Verse 2 - yours truly:
Bmaj7
First loves conditioned like poisonous fate

With optimism we just contradict
       G                    Gm
Was I just your mistake, cinnamon to the taste
          G
Bitter but graceful
           Cm7
You know I meant what I said in the moment
             Bmaj7
But now I'm pendulum sentiments, swaying while I cry
Cm7
Destined for abattoirs, lovers only live
  Bmaj7
A penny for your thoughts, I would kill for a kiss

G
Lonely, dying flame,


🎸 Chorus 2:
           C
 I think I want to
       C               G
Be the memory that you turn to
            Fm             G            C
When you're drunk and your empty 'cause you're mine
            C                   G
But at the same time I want to forget you
       Fm         G
Take a gun to the mantle
     C                 C
And spin myself into a storm of grey skies
     G                            Fm          G
I'll climb all the trees and I'll pray for a lightning strike
C           C                    G
Tamed into numbness, it's what I have become since
    Fm          G        C
The person you recognise


Verse 3 - both:
B
First loves are lethal, dilute all you like

Reticent discontent laboured in stride
         Cm                      Gm                      G
Hear the acid rain dripping down the water pipes to the ocean floor
      Cm7
And I meant what I said you're an angel
         Bmaj7
You were sent to me, carefully right at the time
       Cm7
That I needed a petal to throw into the fire
          Bmaj7
Something pretty and impermanent that I could admire

G
Lonely, dying flame,


🎸 Chorus 3:
          C
I think I want to
       C               G
Be the memory that you turn to
            Fm             G            C
When you're drunk and your empty 'cause you're mine
            C                   G
But at the same time I want to forget you
       Fm         G
Take a gun to the mantle
    C                  C
And spin myself into a storm of grey skies
      G                           Fm          G
I'll climb all the trees and I'll pray for a lightning strike
C          C                          G
Tamed into numbness, it's what I have become since
    Fm         G
The person you recognise
C


dun


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