David Dallas - First Love

[Verse 1]
Started out with a bang
Don't know why I knew I could hang
I met Todd out in N.P
Empty beer bottles & nangs
I came back to Aucks with a spark
I perfected things in the dark
Think you wanna step in my shoes?
Fuck you must be having a laugh
Know I paid the price for this art
“Who the fuck you think you are? Nas?”
That’s the type of shit that you hear when half the crowd is havin a dart
Durin your set but that's in the past
Been a while but got scars
Took plenty L's like Haas, now all that’s half full is the glass
Go head think about that
Bit on edge, you blink & I'll snap
Hurts my heart they're thinkin bout traps, when all I'm doin is bringin out slaps
Worst thing I could do is react
Been through hell but seeming relaxed
What your feelings mean to me? jack
Ain't no one as mean as me - fact
Nowadays let's see where we at
From motels & sleepin in flats
Stuck somewhere out in Ashburton, trippin balls from eatin up hash
Bad promoters feedin us snacks
Those per diems we weren't seeing
So now they need to be taxed
My fee need to be maxed
[Chorus]
Hard to put in words how it feel cause nothin burns like your first love, blinded by every mistake I never learnt from
I can't be somebody out here that they never heard from
Even when there’s somethin better know I curved em
I’m sayin this is it for me, my brain's getting sick of me
Well cool that ain’t shit to me for real
Hard to put words that nothing burns like your first love
Blinded by every mistake I never learnt

[Verse 2]
No peers, came & went there was no tears
Different gen ain't got shit in common
Miss the point when I'm riffing on em
Cherry-Evans I chip it on em, I put it down then I'm dippin on em
Since 04 still tippin on em like Mike Jones
Swishahouse
Phone numbers ain’t given out
Dreamt of things and I lived em out
Who knows if I'm missing out? It's too late to bitch about
This what I do it's a given now
Tryna stay in love is the mission now
Don't need nobody's permission now
Reason that they all listen out
Just moved mum overseas, since my youth nothing was free
And the worst cost of all's time
Can't buy that shopping online
I see things here in the family home make my heart stop on a dime
Know my brother died in that room
Room next door wrote my first rhyme
Brought my first girl, scored the first time
Even when it's awkward it's fine
Might rub some people the wrong way can't let em stop me from tryin
Passport in my left hand can't ever stop me from flyin
Don't text me with no bullshit I ain't ever fucken replying
Stonex boy before I was signed
If I said I saw this I'm lying
Million streams ain't in the cards when all your cards get declined
Self doubt get you wondering are these people deaf? are they blind?
Or maybe, just maybe I'm really one of a kind
I hear people saying it's time, know that I've got something in mind
Put quote marks around that, like it's stuff that Virgil designed
Love hearts on these apps, when there's fans learning my lines
Same feels when a song dropped & I first heard it on Mai
I'll get verses off til I die
I've been thinking back to the past
Pap to Devonport drives
Sunday afternoon starts
Mt Albert, Botany Downs - used to roll from all around town
Wrote almost all of my debut when my bedroom was a lounge
Guess I don't need nothin flash, it's all about the heart and the sound
Spectatings cool but it hits diff when your bootmark's on the ground
When you really out on the pitch
Must feel like what I found
[Chorus]
Hard to put in words how it feel cause nothin burns like your first love, blinded by every mistake I never learnt from
I can't be somebody out here that they never heard from
Even when there's somethin better know I curved em
I'm sayin this is it for me, my brain's getting sick of me
Well cool that ain't shit to me for real
Hard to put words that nothing burns like your first love
Blinded by every mistake I never learnt