"First Day of My Life" is a song by the

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band

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, originally released on the band's fifth album ''

Dead Letters ''Dead Letters'' is the fifth album by Finnish band The Rasmus released in 2003. It was released later in 2004 in the US, UK and Australia. Their previous album, '' Into'', had seen some success in some parts of Europe, particularly Scandinav ...

'' on 21 March 2003. It became one of numerous hit singles from the album, with the highest position being No. 4 in Finland. The single was released on 15 October 2003 by the record label

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. The single (which was the third from ''Dead Letters'') features the

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of the song. UK edition also includes "

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" (live) and the b-side "Since You've Been Gone".

Lyrical meaning

Singer

Lauri Ylönen Lauri Johannes Ylönen (born 23 April 1979) is a Finnish singer-songwriter, best known as the co-founder and frontman of the Finland, Finnish alternative rock musical ensemble, band The Rasmus. Biography The Rasmus When he and Heinonen started ...

explains the song as follows:

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.

Single 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 # "

" ive# "Since You've Been Gone" # The "First Day of My Life" music video

Music video

The music video for "First Day of My Life" was shot on a

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the same year. It was directed by Sven Bollinger and produced by Volker Steinmetz (Erste Liebe Filmproduktion) in

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Live Letters ''Live Letters'' is a live DVD by the Finnish rock band The Rasmus, originally released on 22 November 2004 on Playground Music. The DVD features eleven live videos from a performance at Gampel Open Air in Switzerland on 21 August 2004, whic ...

DVD booklet, November 22, 2004

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

External links

The Rasmus' official website

"First Day of My Life" music video
on

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"First Day of My Life" fanlisting
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