It's Not My Birthday Lyrics

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'