The First Time I Loved Forever Lyrics

The First Time I Loved Forever lyrics

Lyrics by Melanie Safka

Music by Lee Holdridge

Sung byLisa Angelle

(From "Beauty and the Beast")

With excerpts from the poem “Somewhere I Have Never 

Traveled, Gladly� by the American poet E.E. Cummings



Poem:

“Somewhere I have never traveled

Gladly beyond any experience

Your eyes have their silence

And your most frail gesture of things

Which enclose me

But which I cannot touch

Because they are too near.�



The first time I loved forever

Was when you whispered my name

And I knew at once you loved me

For the me of who I am



The first time I loved forever

I cast all else aside

And I bid my heart to follow

Be there no more need to hide



And if wishes and dreams

Are merely for children

And if love's a tale for fools

I'll live the dream with you



Poem:

“oh, if your words be to close me

I, my life will shut, very beautifully

Suddenly, as when the heart of this flower

Imagines the snow carefully, everywhere

descending�.



For all my life and forever

There's a truth I will always know

When my world divides and shatters

Your love is where I'll go



Poem:

“I do not know what it is about you that closes

and opens. Only something in me understands

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.

Nobody, not even the rain has such small hands.�