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
- Put Your Hand In The Puppet Head
- Hope That I Get Old Before I Die
- We're The Replacements
- When It Rains It Snows
- The Famous Polka
- (Untitled)
- For Science
- The Biggest One
- Mr. Klaw
- Critic Intro
- Now That I Have Everything
- Mainstream U.S.A.
- Fake Out In Buenos Aires
- Greek #3
- I'm Def
- '85 Radio Special Thank You
- Cage & Aqarium
- Hello Radio
- It's Not My Birthday
- I'll Sink Manhattan
- Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon
- Hey Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had A Deal
- Lady Is A Tramp
- Birds Fly
- Kitten Intro
- Weep Day
- The Big Big Whoredom
- I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You (Adaptation)
- Become A Robot
- Swing Is A Word
- Doris Cunningham
- Counterfeit Fake
- Schoolchildren Singing 'Particle Man'