First Time

Hawk Nelson's "First Time" circles around a moment of turning — the singer counts steps toward something new while admitting he's been "wasting time," stuck like a poster for a self-help line. There's a wry self-awareness in that image, a recognition that knowing the truth is often deferred to when we're older. The chorus answers that hesitation with a declaration: for the first time, feeling alive isn't something to fear, and for the last time, he's falling behind. The rewind-and-record wish in the second verse — pressing rewind, turning on record, leaving the past behind — frames the song as a deliberate break from what came before. The repeated "one step closer, two steps closer" and the plea to be reminded when found give the track a communal, almost confessional feel, as if the resolve needs another voice to hold it steady. The closing insistence that nothing out there will change his mind lands as a settled choice rather than a fleeting mood. It's a song about the threshold between old patterns and a life that finally feels worth stepping into.