First girl i loved lyrics

Artist  : Jackson browne 
Song : First girl i loved
 

(from the album Rubaiyat: Elektra`s 40th
Anniversary; performed by Jackson Browne with
David Lindley)

First girl I loved--
Time has come I will sing the sad goodbye song
When I was seventeen, I used to know you
And I haven`t seen you now in so many years
And the last time I saw you
You said you joined the Church of Jesus
But me I remember your long red hair
Falling in our faces as I kissed you
I just want you to know I just had to go
I just want you to know I just had to grow
And you`re probably married now
With a house and car and all
And you turned into a grown-up female stranger
If I was lyin` by you now, I wouldn`t be here at
all

Well we parted so hard
Me rushing `round New York with a guitar
Making love to people I didn`t even like to see
And I still sometimes think of you
As I lay here in the six at morning
And in the lonely midnight
I`ve got to hold your face before me

I just want you to know I just had to go
I just want you to know I just had to grow
And you`re probably married now
With kids and all
And you turned into a grown-up female stranger
If I was lyin` by you now, I`d just have to fall

And I never slept with you
Though we must have made love a thousand times
`Cause we were just young
Didn`t have no place to go

I just want you to know I just had to go
I just want you to know I just had to grow
So its goodbye First Love
And I hope you`re fine
I have a sweet woman
Maybe someday she`ll have babies by me
(She pretty)
She`s a true friend of mine