| The First Pain to Linger | |
| Type: | ep |
| Artist: | Black Tape for a Blue Girl |
| Cover: | Lingerpain.jpg |
| Released: | 1996 |
| Genre: | Darkwave |
| Length: | 33:30 |
| Label: | Projekt Records |
| Prev Title: | This Lush Garden Within |
| Prev Year: | 1993 |
| Next Title: | across a thousand blades- a retrospective |
| Next Year: | 1996 |
The First Pain to Linger is a book with a maxi-CD by the darkwave band Black Tape for a Blue Girl. It was released in 1996 by Projekt Records. It is also the title of a novella by Sam Rosenthal that accompanies the album. The songs are different mixes and compilation tracks recorded between 1990 and 1995, in conjunction with the This Lush Garden Within and A Chaos of Desire albums.