What do you think Falling For The First Time means?

Barenaked Ladies: Falling For The First Time Meaning

Tagged: Falling [suggest]
Album cover for Falling For The First Time album cover

Song Released: 2001


Falling For The First Time Lyrics

I'm so cool, too bad I'm a loser
I'm so smart, too bad I can't get anything figured out
I'm so brave, too bad I'm a baby
I'm so fly, that's probably why it
Feels just like I'm falling for the first time

I'm so green, it's really...

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  1. anonymous
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     Feb 6th 2021 !⃝

    “Anyone perfect must be lying, anything easy has its cost. Anyone plain can be lovely, anyone loved can be lost. What if I lost my direction? What if I lost sense of time? What if I nursed this infection? Maybe the worst is behind.”
    The song is about recovering from romantic failure. The perfectionist is a maturing hopeless romantic who is edging into a new relationship with a flawed but caring person after breaking up with a narcissistic person.

  2. dourdan
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     Jul 17th 2007 !⃝

    I love this song and to me it feel like it is encouraging people to take changes and learn from their mistakes.

  3. anonymous
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     Dec 3rd 2006 !⃝

    Ok this is straight from the writer's mouth himself.

    It's about a perfectionist who can't learn to be perfect without learning to fall.


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