The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up - Birthday Cake
Let’s go out tonight
I feel like picking a fight
I feel like starting a brawl and then slipping out the back door
Do you think that’s funny?
I don’t think it’s funny
But our backs have been broken too many times
We’ve seen all their tricks and we know all their lines
and it’s not free, but it should be
So we risk our necks and reputations
When we hit the ground, the needle skips
I put a file in your birthday cake
because a cheap cliche and a half-hearted gesture
is what you asked for this year
I spent a day on that damned mix tape
I should have known that you’d have Nick Drake
The saddest songs are the oldest news to you
The saddest songs are the oldest news to you
But our hearts have been broken too many times
We’ve seen all their tricks and we know all their lines and it’s time
Oh, it’s time
So the saints are all lying on my kitchen floor
drifting in and out of consciousness and hanging on the screen door
saying, “Life is not free, but it will be.”
And they close their eyes and smile their smiles of bloody lips and broken teeth
I put a file in your birthday cake
because a cheap cliche and a half-hearted gesture is what you asked for this year
I spent a day on that damned mix tape
I should have known that you’d have Nick Drake
The saddest songs are the oldest news
But do you find you’re so different?
Have you never met your own friends?
Does the time move slowly only for you?
Were the police reports, the articles, the eulogies written only for you?
I dreamt that I kissed you
I dreamt that I kissed you and then let you go
7 сен 2024
