First Day of My Life (The Rasmus song)

Infobox Single
Name = First Day of My Life


Artist = The Rasmus
from Album = Dead Letters
B-side = "Since You've Been Gone" (UK only)
Released = October 15, 2003 (Europe)
November 1, 2004 (UK)
Format = CD single
Recorded = June - December 2002 in Stockholm, Sweden
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 3:44
Label = Playground Music (Europe)
Island Records (UK)
Writer = Lauri Ylönen
Producer = Mikael Nord
Martin Hansen

Last single = "In My Life"
(2003)
This single = "First Day of My Life"
(2004)
Next single = "Funeral Song"
(2004)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Dead Letters
Type = studio
prev_track =
prev_no =
this_track = "First Day of My Life"
track_no = 1
next_track = "In the Shadows"
next_no = 2

"First Day of My Life" is a song by the Finnish alternative rock band The Rasmus, originally released on the band's fifth album "Dead Letters" on March 21, 2003.

The song became one of the hit singles from their album "Dead Letters", and reached good positions on many chart lists. In Finland it went #4 later that year.

The single was released on October 15, 2003 by the record label Playground Music. The single (which was the third one from the album "Dead Letters") features the music video of the song. UK edition also includes "Guilty" (live) and the b-side "Since You've Been Gone".

Lyrical meaning

Singer Lauri Ylönen explains the song as follow:

Flashing up from our German tour. We were watching a movie in the back of the tour bus, and in the movie there was a sentence "through the darkness". I took my guitar and made a chorus immediately. The song is about the band, being on tour and dreaming.

ingle track listing

Original version (2003)
# "First Day of My Life" - 3:44
# The "First Day of My Life" music video as MPEG

UK edition (2004)
# "First Day of My Life" - 3:44
# "Guilty" [live]
# "Since You've Been Gone"
# The "First Day of My Life" music video as MPEG

Music video

The music video for "First Day of My Life" was shot on a speedway in Germany the same year. It was directed by Sven Bollinger and produced by Volker Steinmetz (Erste Liebe Filmproduktion) in Lausitzring. [Live Letters DVD booklet, November 22, 2004] Since they stood in water in many scenes of the video, many of their instruments were broken.

Chart positions

References

External links

* [http://www.therasmus.com The Rasmus' official website]
* [http://www.therasmus.org.uk/FirstDayOfMyLifeLyrics.htm Lyrics]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKZ0JFb5Nuc "First Day of My Life" music video] on YouTube
* [http://fdoml.thefanpage.com/ "First Day of My Life" fanlisting]