To a First Love lyrics by Thomas Charlie Pedersen

TO A FIRST LOVE

You cry out with the lust of youth

and, sweetheart, so do I.

The heartfelt yearnings that we feel

we simply can´t deny.

And yet despite the joy we seek

and we know that we must wait

perhaps next year we´ll make the scene

when both of us turn eighteen

The first youthful yearnings. The desire for that first joyful embrace. Lets be honest it never turns out like any of us imagine. You have never kissed anyone and you imagine what its like to kiss, but it never turns out like you imagine.

I can tell you, it does get better with practice

What we feel as teenagers is intense, hormones bearly under control, still confused, the desire to go out into the big wide world, to make your mark.

Life is not a practice run! So decide to LIVE! and that can only happen if you do it on PURPOSE!

To A First Love can be found on  Day Light Saving Hours

THOMAS CHARLIE PEDERSEN - DAYLIGHT SAVING HOURS 

Tracklist: 

1. To A First Love 

2. The Meriwether Pull 

3. Movables 

4. Green Plateau 

5. The World Is Not Your Oyster 

6. Sad To See You Go 

7. Must Be The World 

8. The Witty Moniker 

9. Stay True 

10. Blood Moon. 

11. The Freewheeler 

12. At The End Of The Day 

13. Faithful Mistress 

14. Daylight Saving Hours 

Running time:37 mins 

Release date: February 7 2020 

I´m the lead singer and guitarist of the Danish alternative rock band Vinyl Floor. ’Daylight Saving Hours’ is my second solo effort. The album was made at an apartment in Nørrebro, Copenhagen and was recorded and mixed by my brother Daniel Pedersen who is also the drummer of Vinyl Floor. ‘Daylight Saving Hours’ continues the acoustic and minimalistic stylings as heard on my first album ‘Second Hand War’ (2016) albeit a tad more arranged this time. We’ve utilized strings, vocal harmonies, alternate guitar tunings and we´ve experimented with noise and reversed sounds during the recording. 

The project started out as demo recordings but I´ve decided to release these songs because I want to present them as raw as possible and because I want to preserve the feel of how they were written. Amidst choosing songs for my eponymous solo album I left out some songs with a more extroverted feel. Some of these songs have been included this time around, whilst others are brand new and have been written directly for this album. Unlike the first album - which was quite introvert and personal - the new album sees me writing mostly about other people with a strong emphasis on the lyrics and melody and a few lyrical wordplays thrown in for good measure. I write about the commitments of love, illusionists, otherworldly interference, melancholia, women in trouble and the different aspects of getting older (I´m turning 40 next time). 

The title ‘Daylight Saving Hours’ is a wordplay on the expression ‘daylight saving time’. These songs try to hold desperately onto the light in a world which just seems to be getting stranger and darker. I played all the instruments myself while Daniel contributed some guitar overdubs, arranged strings and added vocal harmonies to several songs.