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Jens Lekman – The First Lovesong (2025) | Track profile | Dork

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Jens Lekman
Songs for Other People's Weddings
The First Lovesong

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The First Lovesong

Release date: 11th September 2025

From Songs for Other People's Weddings

Track 1

4:04

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"The First Lovesong" is a track by Jens Lekman, from the album Songs for Other People's Weddings, released 11th September 2025. The track is 4:04 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Jens Lekman.

About the Artist

Jens Lekman

Jens Lekman

Lyrics

The First Lovesong

When you're a wedding singer

You're not the star of the night

The spotlight's not on you

Your place is to the side

But you get to be an observer

You get to see what others don't

That it's in these very moments

We appear as most alone

You stand there by the entrance

In the back, behind the pews

From the trees in the churchyard

A song is sung for you

Roo-coo-coo-coo-coo

The mourning doves croon

The heart is not a question

That there's an answеr to

As you set up your equipment

Latеr at the reception

You listen to the speeches

Other people's life lessons

All the human longing

All it's inherent contradictions

Love is brutally simple

It's either there or it isn't

And we don't know this 'till the other

Forgets the lyrics to a tune

That we've never practiced

But somehow always knew

Roo-coo-coo-coo-coo

What else can we do?

Then hope that what I'm feeling

Is what you're feeling too?

That this means farewell

To all farewells

That the love we have can defy

Gravity itself

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Track details

From Songs for Other People's Weddings

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Album

Songs for Other People's Weddings

12th September 2025

Track number

1

Release year

2025

1The First Lovesong
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Jens Lekman has confirmed new album 'Songs for Other People's Weddings', a companion piece to a book of the same name

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Swedish artist Jens Lekman announces album inspired by his wedding singer career, alongside companion book co-written with David Levithan.

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