The First Time

The first time I heard those words

A candlelit hall for a secret girl

I trembled to become a caged bird

The first time I heard those words

The first time I saw your face

An elderly woman turned around in her place

She held out a hand for the light to shake

The first time I saw your face

But I don't know you

I don't know you

I don't know

The first time I spoke your name

You were a character in an exhaustible play

The imagined master of human game

The first time I spoke your name

And the first time I sang your verse

It was larger than my tongue and so it slurred

I couldn't remember who it served

The first time I sang your verse

No I don't sing it right

I don't sing it right

I don't sing

The first time you called my name

It wasn't the one that my friends all say

I guess that my name is your name

I guess that my new name is your name

I guess that my name is your name

But I don't know my name

I don't know my name

I don't know