They Might Be Giants - It's Not My Birthday Lyrics

Lyrics It's Not My Birthday - They Might Be Giants



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
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
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"
Thought I'll wish we were there, I was less than we could bear
And I′m not the only dust my mother raised
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
And 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
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"
Thought 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



Writer(s): John Flansburgh, John Linnell


They Might Be Giants - Then: The Earlier Years
Album Then: The Earlier Years
date of release
25-03-1997

1 Hello Radio
2 Shoehorn With Teeth
3 Stand On Your Own Head
4 Pencil Rain
5 Piece Of Dirt
6 Where Your Eyes Don't Go
7 Cage & Aquarium
8 Cowtown
9 Mr. Me
10 Snowball In Hell
11 Counterfeit Fake
12 Doris Cunningham
13 Swing Is A Word
14 Become A Robot
15 The Big Big Whoredom
16 Kiss Me, Son Of God
17 Weep Day
18 Birds Fly
19 Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had a Deal
20 Nightgown of the Sullen Moon
21 Don't Let's Start (Demo Version)
22 Absolutely Bill's Mood
23 We’re the Replacements
24 When It Rains It Snows
25 You’ll Miss Me
26 Schoolchildren Singing "Particle Man"
27 The World’s Address (Joshua Fried remix)
28 It's Not My Birthday
29 I’m Def
30 Toddler Hiway
31 Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes
32 Critic Intro
33 Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head
34 Number Three
35 Hide Away Folk Family
36 32 Footsteps
37 Rabid Child
38 She's an Angel
39 Youth Culture Killed My Dog
40 Chess Piece Face
41 Hope That I Get Old Before I Die
42 The Day
43 Rhythm Section Want Ad
44 The Famous Polka
45 [untitled]
46 For Science
47 The Biggest One
48 Kiss Me, Son of God (Alternate Version)
49 Mr. Klaw
50 Now That I Have Everything
51 Mainstream U.S.A.
52 Fake Out In Buenos Aires
53 Greek #3
54 I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die
55 '85 Radio Special Thank You
56 I’ll Sink Manhattan
57 Kitten Intro
58 I’m Gettin’ Sentimental Over You (adaptation)




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