Never As Good As The First Time
Sade

Good times they come and they go
Never going to know
What fate is going to blow your way
Just hope that it feels right

Sometimes it comes and it goes
You take it ever so slow
And then you lose it
Then it flows right to you

So we rely on the past
Special moments that last
Were they as tender
As we dare to remember

Such a fine time as this
What could equal the bliss
The thrill of the first kiss
It’ll blow right to you

It’s never as good as the first time
Never as good as the first time
(Never as good as the first time)

Good times they come and they go
Never going to know
It’s like the weather one day
Chicken, next day feathers

The rose we remember
The thorns we forget
We’d love and leave
We’d never spend a minute on regret

It is a possibility
The more we know the less we see
Second time
Is not quite what it seems

Natural as
The way we came to be
The second time
Won’t live up to the dream

Never as good as the first time
(Never as good as the first time)
Never as good as the first time
(Never as good as the first time)

Natural as
The way we came to be
The second time
Won’t live up to the dream

Natural as
The way we came to be
The second time
Is not quite what it seems, ooh, hoo

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It’s never, ooh, as good as the first time
As the first time (Never as good as the first time)
The first time

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Natural as
The way we came to be
Second time
Won’t live up to the dream

Natural as
The way we came to be
Second time
Is not quite what it seems, ooh, hoo

(Never) Never as good as the first time (Ooh, hoo)
As the first time
As good as the first time (First time)

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© 1985 Words and music by Sade Adu and Stuart Matthewman