The First Time

The First Time - MercyME/Jim Bryson/Nathan Cochran/Bart Millard/Mike Scheuchzer/Robby Shaffer/Barry Graul/Jason Ingram/Dan Muckala

Day after day

I try to explain You

Like I can contain You

In so many words

But 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'd tasted grace

But I have never felt anything close to this

Just when I'd seen it all

New mercy breaks the dawn

And 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

And all of my reaching

I'm left with nothing

Nothing of worth

You treasure the broken

Over and over

Give me a hope

That can never be earned

It's still amazing

That You'd ever save me

I thought I knew Your face

I thought I'd tasted grace

But I have never felt anything close to this

Just when I'd seen it all

New mercy breaks the dawn

And with my eyes open wide

It feels like the first time first time

It feels like the first time first time

And 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'd tasted grace

But it was nothing like this

Just when I'd seen it all

New mercy breaks the dawn

And with my eyes open wide

It feels like the first time first time

Just like the first time first time

I can see for the first time first time

Just like the first time