- The First Time
Song infobox
Name = The First Time
Type =Song
Artist =U2
alt Artist =
Album =Zooropa
Published =
Released = July 1993
track_no = 8
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length = 3:45
Writer =
Composer =
Label =Island Records
Producer = Flood,Brian Eno andThe Edge
Background = #D8BFD8
Tracks =
prev = "Some Days Are Better Than Others "
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next = "Dirty Day "
next_no = 9:"For the album by country singer Billy "Crash" Craddock seeThe First Time (album) "The First Time" is the eighth track fromU2 's 1993 album, "Zooropa ". It was never released as a single, although it features on the soundtrack to the 2000 "The Million Dollar Hotel " movie, and on thegreatest hits album, "The Best of 1990-2000 ". Bono says it is a version of the BiblicalProdigal Son who selfishly deserted his father's home only to realize he had left the good life behind and returned to his Father's open arms.The song was never played live in its entirety until 2005, during the
Vertigo Tour (it was snippeted several times in between "Bad" and "Bullet the Blue Sky " during the Zooropa leg of theZoo TV Tour ).
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