TRACY CHAPMAN LYRICS - The First Person On Earth

"The First Person On Earth"



From the water

From the rock and the dirt

You were

The first person on earth



Oh the mountains

And the oceans

Witnessed your birth

The first person on earth



By a river

On the banks of a sandy shore

Untouched clean fresh and pure

The first person on earth



In the light of the sun

You emerged

To see the good in the world

Before the pain and the scourge

The first person on earth



In the quiet in the calm

Before the storm

You heard the dream for a love

That never dies in a poem

The first person on earth



And I'm in love with you

I'm in love with a dream

That can not be realized

Held or seen

By the last person on earth



After the earthquakes the hurricanes

The fires and floods

I'm jaded cynical angry and glum

The world's too absurd and obscene

For true love

And more than happy to let me become

The last person on earth



To let me stand on a rock

The muddy waters surround

Abandoned alone

The end soon to come

As the last person on earth



As the waters rise

At the end of the world

Though I bear the weight

Of the rock and the dirt



I know I'm worthy of your love

As the last person on earth



As the waters rise

At the end of the world

Though I bear the weight

Of the rock and the dirt

I know I'm worthy of your love

As the last person on earth