It's Not My Birthday Lyrics

The song It's Not My Birthday is performed by They Might Be Giants in the album named Then: The Earlier Years in the year 1997 .



Well the rain falls down without my help I'm afraid
And my lawn gets wet though I've withheld my consent
When this gray 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 keep 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
Though I'll wish you 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 gray 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
Though I'll wish you 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




They Might Be Giants - Then: The Earlier Years

Mar 1997

  1. Put Your Hand In The Puppet Head
  2. Hope That I Get Old Before I Die
  3. We're The Replacements
  4. When It Rains It Snows
  5. The Famous Polka
  6. (Untitled)
  7. For Science
  8. The Biggest One
  9. Mr. Klaw
  10. Critic Intro
  11. Now That I Have Everything
  12. Mainstream U.S.A.
  13. Fake Out In Buenos Aires
  14. Greek #3
  15. I'm Def
  16. '85 Radio Special Thank You
  17. Cage & Aqarium
  18. Hello Radio
  19. It's Not My Birthday
  20. I'll Sink Manhattan
  21. Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon
  22. Hey Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had A Deal
  23. Lady Is A Tramp
  24. Birds Fly
  25. Kitten Intro
  26. Weep Day
  27. The Big Big Whoredom
  28. I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You (Adaptation)
  29. Become A Robot
  30. Swing Is A Word
  31. Doris Cunningham
  32. Counterfeit Fake
  33. Schoolchildren Singing 'Particle Man'


It's Not My Birthday