First ~ Cold War Kids (lyrics)

Cold War Kids song First (lyrics)

[jmy]

This might be the best lyric video I've ever seen. The sound is great and the words pop up, "First". Thanks for posting.

[BuckThatBaca-ns]

Mount of Olivez 🔍¿? Hey Now that'z what it iz Yo¡! That jam goez hard on the paint🎨 ***

[jamesegan]

This song is raw emotion with extremely poor lyrics. "Who woke you up, on the front lawn, sprinklers turn on, it's not your house, where'd you go wrong?" Huh? Do you, the listener to this drunkenly crafted word salad, relate to that experience? And the chorus line is just spastic. "Flying like a cannonball, falling to the earth, heavy as a feather when you hit the dirt. How am I the lucky one, I do not deserve, to wait around forever when you were here first." Okay, the first part is emotionally flat, not an analogy that hits any chords. Then, shifting from "you" referring to the listener "hitting the dirt, " the singer immediately shifts to "you" as being his ex-partner, rejecting some apparently suggestion he's "lucky" and he doesn't deserve to "wait around forever" when this person was "here" first -- where? What's he waiting around forever for, he's going on benders waking up to sprinklers. Who said he was lucky? This is a word garbage salad and it's too bad, because the song is otherwise catchy, his voice is okay, the drumming is great and so are the backup singers. But the passion expressed does not match the lyrics, they are totally unrelatable to 99.9% of the audience who are not that kind of boozer and random-stories kind of It's not a good song.