Artist: They Might Be Giants
Song: It s Not My Birthday
Album: Miscellaneous T (EP)
[Verse 1]
Well the rain falls down without my help I m afraid
and my lawn gets wet though I ve withheld my consent
When this grey world crumbles like a cake
I ll be hanging from the hope
that I ll never see that recipe again
[Verse 2]
As I walk I think about a new way to walk
As I think I m using up the time left to think
and this train keeps rolling off the track
trying to act like something else
trying to go where it s been uninvited
[Chorus]
It s not my birthday, it s not today
It s not my birthday so why do you lunge out at me
When the word comes down "Never more will be around"
Though I ll wish we were there, I was less than we could bear
and I m not the only dust my mother raised
[Bridge]
So I m rattling the bars around this drink tank discreetly
I should pour through the keyhole or evaporate completely
but there d be no percentage and there d be no proof
and the sound upon the roof is only water
[Verse 3]
Well the rain falls down without my help I m afraid
and my lawn gets wet though I ve withheld my consent
When this grey world crumbles like a cake
I ll be hanging from the hope
that I ll never see that recipe again
[Chorus]
It s not my birthday, it s not today
It s not my birthday so why do you lunge out at me
When the word comes down "Never more will be around"
Though I ll wish we were there, I was less than we could bear
and I m not the only dust my mother raised
I am not the only dust my mother raised
