Name: First and Last (OLD 1982 recording)
Duration: 5 min 14 s
Channel: To Be Announced
Description: "First and Last (OLD 1982 recording)" is a song by Try Try Again Project. This song was recorded in 1982 on a cheap little portable tape recorder with a built-in mic, and I hope I will be healed enough to be able to re-record it because the lyrics below have been slightly revised from the original version.

First and Last (OLD 1982 recording)

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This song was recorded in 1982 on a cheap little portable tape recorder with a built-in mic, and I hope I will be healed enough to be able to re-record it because the lyrics below have been slightly revised from the original version.

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Try Try Again Project

Original songs about religious tolerance and freedom, liberation, independence, peace, and justice -- Jeffersonian in nature.

More recent recordings of these songs, with better arrangements and with more instrumentation, can be heard at http://www.soundclick.com/Jeffers. (Click ) The songs here were his first recording attempts and are just first takes recorded in early 2009 when the now 73 year old artist's health was steadily declining. He felt he was dying, so he finally picked up his guitar again after 26 years of not playing or singing, and recorded as many songs as he could while he could still sing and play just enough to do it. Since then with a new diagnosis and medicines his health improved a bit and he can breathe a bit better, so he has been working, whenever he was able, to improve the recordings and the arrangements, and record them on a better, 8 track digital portable studio recorder. It was kind of touch and go, but when he had relatively good days he did what he could and he finally produced a better 12 song album that he is a little more satisfied with. But, even as they are the songs here also deliver an important and crucial message --- because the lyrics of the songs are even more relevant now than when they were written more than 30 years ago. Please listen to more recent recordings (and two additional songs) by clicking ) Copyright 2002 - 2013 Try Try Again Project (TTAP)

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Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Rock

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#5,582 today Peak #255

#830 in subgenre Peak #36

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To Be Announced

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Try Try Again Project (TTAP)

Uploaded

September 29, 2010

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MP3 12.0 MB • 320 kbps • 5:14

Story behind the song

It's about recognizing that our partner in love is often very much like a mirror that show us a reflection of our self. Generally speaking, what we give is what we get, like what we sow, we reap.

Lyrics

The First and the Last

I searched for my love, for my place.
I searched for my freedom, for my dream come true.
But as I passed through time and space,
I found at last that my search was for you.

We've been down that road, where we just had to go.
I guess we all need some hard times to grow.
And I've been on long journeys to the back of my mind.
And searching my soul within made me lose track of time.

Now the last has come first, and this is true.
The first is as one with the last, within you.

Love lets us feel like we’re the oldest of friends,
And see in our eyes words we need not hear.
Love is such a reward for just making amends,
And being in love we have nothing to fear.

When love is true, it never grows old.
We learn from each other what cannot be told.
I am but half of a man without you.
Love is a mirror that lets me see myself in you.

Now the last has come first, and this is true.
The first is as one with the last, within you.

Copyright © 2009 - 2010 TTAP

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