There The First Time
Eternal Cycles: A Reflection on Life's Firsts
Lyrics
Get a good run at it
Encouraging a strong start or effort
Whip the horse and rattle
Urging forward with energy, creating noise
The station of state a bit
State of authority or power undergoing change
A universe of battle
A vast and intense conflict or struggle
Every second a sun
Each moment symbolized as a sun, life and death
Somewhere one dies
Death occurring continuously somewhere
No heaven's heir apparent
No obvious or clear successor to heaven
There the first time
A significant experience or realization at the beginning
Well I know this feeling
Familiarity with a recurring emotion
I get it all the time
Experiencing the mentioned feeling frequently
Every second a sun
Reiteration of the constant cycle of life and death
Somewhere one dies
Continued acknowledgment of ongoing mortality
Time to get on with it
Time to move forward despite limitations
The prison and the shackles
References to confinement and constraints
Colonize you brick by brick
Gradual imposition and domination, setting an example
Leading by example
Leadership demonstrated through actions
Sun up, sun down
Symbolic representation of day and night
Two hundred species die
Highlighting the extinction of numerous species
Crawled off a cliff
A perilous situation, possibly self-induced
There the first time
Reiteration of a significant experience at the beginning
Well I know the reasons
Awareness and understanding of reasons
I use them all the time
Frequent utilization of those reasons
From sun up to sun down
Emphasizing the continuous cycle from day to night
I believe in the power of an ocean
Belief in the immense influence of the ocean
A trillion miles bereaved
A vast distance marked by profound grief
But there the first time
Reiteration of a significant experience at the beginning
There the first time
Emphasizing the uniqueness of the initial experience
Sun up, to sun down
Symbolic representation of the full day cycle
There the first time
Reiteration of a significant experience at the beginning
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