| First Day of My Life | |
| Cover: | Rasmus-FDOML.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | The Rasmus |
| Album: | Dead Letters |
| B-Side: | "Since You've Been Gone" (UK only) |
| Released: | 15 October 2003 (Europe) 1 November 2004 (UK) |
| Recorded: | June–December 2002 in Stockholm, Sweden |
| Genre: | Alternative rock, alternative metal |
| Length: | 3:44 |
| Label: | Playground Music (Europe) Island Records (UK) |
| Producer: | Mikael Nord Martin Hansen |
| Prev Title: | In My Life |
| Prev Year: | 2003 |
| Next Title: | Funeral Song |
| Next Year: | 2004 |
"First Day of My Life" is a song by the Finnish alternative rock band The Rasmus, originally released on the band's fifth album Dead Letters 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 Playground Music. The single (which was the third from Dead Letters) features the music video of the song. UK edition also includes "Guilty" (live) and the b-side "Since You've Been Gone".
Singer Lauri Ylönen 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.
Original version (2003)
UK edition (2004)
The music video for "First Day of My Life" was shot on a speedway in Germany the same year. It was directed by Sven Bollinger and produced by Volker Steinmetz (Erste Liebe Filmproduktion) in Lausitzring.[1]