Birthday
“Birthday” is a song by The Mars Volta from the release The Bedlam in Goliath (2008). No live performances of “Birthday” are recorded in the archive. Full lyrics are documented below.
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Lyrics
She lives in this house over there
Has her world outside it
Scrapples in the Earth with her fingers and her mouth
She’s five years old
Thread worms on a string
Keeps spiders in her pocket
Collects fly wings in a jar
Scrubs horse flies
And pinches them on a line
Oh
She has one friend, he lives next door
They’re listening to the weather
He knows how many freckles she’s got
She scratches his beard
She’s painting huge books
And glues them together
They saw a big raven
It glided down the sky
She touched it
Oh
Today is a birthday
They’re smoking cigars
He’s got a chain of flowers
And sows a bird in her knickers
Oh
They’re smoking cigars
They lie in the bathtub
A chain of … flowers
Notes
The Sugarcubes cover. Available on Japanese version of the album and from Best Buy as a bonus download.