The First Time - MercyMe

Day after day

I try to explain You

Like I can contain You in so many words

You are the ocean

And I’m on the shoreline

Thinking I know You like You could be learned

It’s so amazing that You’d ever save me

I thought I knew Your face

I thought I tasted grace

But I had never felt anything close to this

Just when I’d seen it all

New mercy breaks the dawn

With my eyes open wide

It feels like the first time, first time

It feels like the first time, first time

After all of my searching

All of my reaching

I’m left with nothing

Nothing of worth

You treasure the broken

Over and over

Give me a hope that could never be earned

It’s still amazing that You’d ever save me

I thought I knew Your face

I thought I tasted grace

But I had never felt anything close to this

Just when I’d seen it all

New mercy breaks the dawn

With my eyes open wide

It feels like the first time, first time

It feels like the first time, first time

Your beauty no eye has seen

Your majesty overwhelming

Your love for me is healing oh God

I thought I knew Your face

I thought I tasted grace

But it was nothing like this

Just when I’d seen it all

New mercy breaks the dawn

With my eyes open wide

I feel alive for the first time, first time

Just like the first time, first time

I can see for the first time, first time

Feels just like the first time