First Place

"I feel like anyone who has ever been to a house party can relate to this song (or maybe not. Maybe I'm the only one existentially questioning everyone and everything whilst Mr Brightside goes off in the background) and I like to think it encapsulates the classic narcissistic small town teenage vibes you feel when you are a messy messy 16 year old living in the middle of nowhere surrounded by sheep and bad ideas."

- Maisie Peters

"First Place" is an original song by Maisie Peters, uploaded to her YouTube channel on October 23, 2016.

Lyrics
I can see you standing all alone At a party you don't know no one And it smells of beer and everybody here is from the city You never liked them, said "their boots were far too big" When you were with me, said my darling "Promise here outside the bathroom You will never become one of them" Obnoxious, smoking high-end cigarettes Name dropping Shakespeare off the heads Your words washed over me, mouthwash mixed with arrogance A little boy who held a drink, and thought that made him qualified to tell me I embarrass him

Now the room is blasting house music I feel like I might lose it Everybody here is killing time Pour more in my cup, prove it I'm just as much grown up as you I'll dance til I forget the reasons why We even turned up in the first place Why I am with you in the first place

I bet somebody turns the speakers up Blasting some old Green Day song And you will say, that "they were way better a couple years ago" And heads will nod as if your word is law The teenage music connoisseur Self assured, I bet, from all your years of private school Fresh faced, political

Now the room is blasting house music I feel like I might lose it Everybody here is killing time Pretending to be rich and famous Really we're all lost and aimless Searching for the best that we can find And then you'll try and pull me down a peg And I will wonder why I'm here again

Promising we won't be like our parents Honestly I'm past the point of caring Why all my views are fully formed or rounded When it comes down to it You're just as small town little fish as me Don't you see your crown is made of books That you brag about, when really Have you even looked past the Wikipedia page Is this your grown up phase?

Now the room is blasting house music I feel like I might lose it Everybody here is killing time Pour more in my cup, prove it I'm just as much grown up as you I'll dance til I forget the reasons why We even turned up in the first place Why I am with you in the first place