First Girl I Loved

was in love with you, well-before I knew,
 it meant more than just wanting to be with you
 I used to look for other girls that looked like you
 But the laws of nature said, 'forget it, son'
 'least that's what somebody told me
 I worried about it a little bit, but that's all
 I dreamt that you were Joan-of Arc
 And I was Don Quixote
 And everywhere we went the world was tin-foil
 But I gave up dreaming, and became a priest
 It put it right out of my system
 I worried about it a little bit, but that's all
 Now you used to play the guitar
 We worked in a country band
 I hung out down on the river bank, on Sunday
 Your brother was my closest friend,
 he drove a pickup truck
 he used to bring me home sometimes, from high school
 Now I was fifteen, oh the very first time
 Love broke completely inside me
 We young, and we were learning about it together
 And we had enough of what we thought we'd need
 Of those well-known secret fables
 We worried about it a little bit, but that's all
 I regret my life won't be long enough
 To make love to all the women that I'd like to
 Or least of all, to live with the ones I've loved
 And I've never regretted a love affair,
 except one and that's all over
 I worried about it a little bit, but that's all
 Now I heard you lived a-way up north
 Your kids are fat and plenty
 And I haven't seen your brother since a-way last Easter
 And if every other girl in the whole wide world
 Was just a little bit more like you
 I'd worry about it a little bit, but that's all
 Now you used to play the guitar
 We worked in a country band
 We hung out down on the river bank, on Sunday
 Your brother was my closest friend,
 he drove a pickup truck
 he used to bring me home sometimes, from high school