How well I remember my very first love affair   Those juvenile fantasies and innocent dreams we shared   But we're too blind to realize that we are totally unprepared   For the first time we fall in love      We think it's forever, the first time we fall in love   We always treasure, the first time we fall in love   Those other romances come and go but we cherish the memory of   The first time we fall in love      First love can be such a strain   It can rule your head, it can bring you pain   And when it ends it seems such a shame   The first time we fall in love   Can make you sad, it can keep you awake   It can drive you mad   People say you're too young and it's only a fad   The first time we fall in love   The first time we fall in love      The first time I fell out of love, it knocked me through the floor   My world came crashing down, it shook me to the core   I was unprepared 'cause I was only a kid   And I was much too young and I wasn't equipped   For the emotional pressures and stresses of it      But oh, I'll never forget   The way that she looked the first time we met   Time goes by but we never forget   The first time we fall in love      Love can be exciting, it can be a bloody bore   Love can be a pleasure or nothing but a chore   Love can be like a dull routine   It can run you around until you're out of steam   It can treat you well, it can treat you mean      Love can mess you around   Love can pick you up, it can bring you down   But they'll never know the feelings we show   The first time we fall in love   The first time we fall in love      Love, love, love