[00:00.000] 作词 : Neil McDonald/Ellen Renton[00:01.000] 作曲 : Neil McDonald[00:07.171]I must be the first[00:11.324]Surely no one has let the cold jeg their knees[00:15.034]Quite happily[00:17.751]Lined up a ruler against the seam[00:20.676]Where the sky on a too-full stomach[00:23.053]Tucks itself into the sea[00:27.129]Only I see the water[00:30.812]Sugar-glazed to stillness[00:33.293]Like two taps with a spoon[00:35.409]Would split its lid in two[00:39.380]The wind that burls me[00:41.235]Does not feel second hand[00:44.369]It’s as true as a first-word[00:47.530]That repaints the front room it cuts through[00:52.650]Sounds stretched to an echo[00:55.262]So no one remembers how language used to land[01:00.252]The sand[01:02.159]Is out the packet new[01:05.842]Branded with my shoes[01:11.563]Maybe the sun is knackered too[01:15.847]Like each of us[01:17.728]Wrapped up in our work, and ourselves[01:21.411]Dreaming of being shelled by our backpacks[01:24.702]And swallowed by the beach[01:28.595]Maybe it's a parent[01:30.684]Too tired to keep playing[01:32.983]That lies through their teeth[01:36.536]Because all pain is small change[01:38.939]In the cost of wonder[01:43.693]Rising somewhere else while we see it sleep[01:48.787]Returning its light[01:50.564]In the nick of time[01:53.463]So that not a grain is lost[01:57.120]Not a bloat of cloud burst[02:00.778]Not a wave out of place[02:05.192]I must be the first[02:11.436]Everything I have[02:12.977]Was given to me clean[02:16.712]Like the sky burns just to blush my face[02:22.590]I have held it up[02:25.385]Ungloved[02:28.546]Crushed seaweed beneath me[02:32.151]Breathed in the beach until I have a new set of lungs[02:37.767]But I have never wiped sunrise down my jumper[02:41.189]To get rid of fingerprints[02:45.656]I never took my shoes off as I came in