I Loved Her First by Heartland
It was the day of their wedding. They had just said their "I do's" and where off to the ceremony where they would be dancing. Then they had the "bride and grooms first dance" Atlanta's dad thought:
Look
at the two of you dancing that way
Lost in the moment and each
others face
So much in love you're alone in this place
Like
there's nobody else in the world
I was enough for her not long
ago
I was her number one
She told me
so
Atlanta used to think her father was the best. She would say "Daddy, you're the only boy I'll ever love. Other boy's are just silly!"
And
she still means the world to me
Just so you know
So be careful
when you hold my girl
Time changes everything
Life must go
on
And I'm not gonna stand in your way
But I loved her
first and I held her first
And a place in my heart will always be
hers
From the first breath she breathed
When she first smiled
at me
I knew the love of a father runs deep
And I prayed that
she'd find you someday
But it's still hard to give her away
I
loved her first
How could that beautiful woman with you
Be
the same freckle faced kid that I
knew
Atlanta was now a beautiful young women not a young girl who only wanted to play in the sand and play sports.
The
one that I read all those fairytales to
And tucked into bed all
those
nights
Atlanta loved it when her father read her fairytales but now she would have somebody else to sleep with and maybe one day she'd have her own kids to read fairytales to.
And
I knew the first time I saw you with her
It was only a matter of
time
Truth be told he had rarely ever seen Archie and Atlanta together but she had always talked and talked about him like there was no other person in the world.
But
I loved her first and I held her first
And a place in my heart
will always be hers
From the first breath she breathed
When she
first smiled at me
I knew the love of a father runs deep
And I
prayed that she'd find you someday
But it's still hard to give her
away
I loved her
first
No matter what he would still always love her. Nobody would ever be good enough for her but he was the one that completed her and that was all that mattered. She was now married and Archie will always love her and he would too. But he had loved her first.