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Birthdays and Breakups

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Birthdays and Breakups
by Feldspar

happy birthday to you
could've sworn we were through
i told all your friends
guess no one told you

breaking up's the easy part but
waking up is hard to do
making up's just never been
a trip i want to talk you through

birthday cake smeared on the bedpost
see them drift off like balloons
watch them rise untill they're gone way
up within the sky so blue

i don't mean to be mean to you
but you make it so easy to
don't look at me or you
will turn to stone
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birthdays and breakups - roymond

used to think birthdays were fun
filled with games and candy
mom would make a pirate cake
the radio played mandy

but now the day is dreaded so
it marks another year
the years are shorter now you know
don't dwell on this - I'll shake in fear

birthdays and breakups
from get downs to fuck ups
when you're down you get up
for birthdays and breakups

breakups never had a cake
though sometimes that'ld be handy
my mom never liked the girl
but barry still sang mandy

in retrospect I must admit
some breakups they were funny
but if you sense I had a fit
I'd say you're on the money

birthdays and breakups
from get downs to fuck ups
if you're down you get up
from birthdays and breakups
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BIRTHDAYS AND BREAKUPS / King Arthur

Just a couple blocks north of Market Street
There's a secret little place where all the beautiful people go.
They'll get you something strong to drink,
Something special to eat,
Get your batteries charged if you feel like you're running low.

And here I sit alone at a tiny table
In the pizza parlor just next door -
Watching all these losers living life in style
Look, here come a couple more -
(Everybody's coming here for)

Birthdays and breakups, showdowns and shakeups,
Wingdings and wakeup calls.
And all that other stuff that comes with
Life at the top of the heap...

They keep the lights really low and the prices really high,
But it doesn't seem to matter;
The place is always absolutely packed.
The waiters are too busy and the bartender's rude,
Maybe it's all just part of a deliberate act

That keeps the people lining up outside the door
Just 'cause they heard somebody say it's the place to be;
And they'll wait there for a table for an hour or more
So they don't have to eat in places with people like me
(And they can have their...)

I'm gonna finish this pizza, have me one more beer
And then I gotta be at work by eight;
Run home and get dressed and then get right back here
'Cause I'm the maitre'd who'll make these people
Wait and wait and wait for their...

(Hope they're in no hurry for their...)
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Jon Eric - Birthdays and Breakups (B&B)

The setting is January 2nd at a football bar.
The Sugarbowl is playing, but I don't pay it any mind.
I may have locked my keys inside my car,
but I've got no one to drive home to see this time.

It's all my fault so you can blame it on me
as you pass me a bottle of that B&B.
I'm not James Bond; I think I'll take it stirred.
As she celebrated another year of being alive,
she doesn't have to put up with me, 'cuz I've
determined for her birthday, I'm leaving her.

I remember the birthday cake in the shape of a heart
and her tongue licking up that frosting, driving me wild.
I didn't bring a gift, just a store-bought card:
"Baby, I'll be gone soon. Why don't you smile?"

You can blame it on me because it's all my fault
for laying out my feelings wall to wall
On display for her to look and see.
I've been feeling like my presence has been crushing her presents;
when she opens up each package as I choke out the sentence
"For your birthday, you won't have to deal with me."

You can blame it on me because it's all my fault
for laying out my feelings wall to wall
On display for her to look and see.
I've been feeling like my presence has been crushing her presents;
when she opens up each package as I choke out the sentence
"For your birthday, you won't have to deal with me."
And she cires Bye, baby," choking back her glee.
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Fuck, maybe posting my lyrics will make me finish record my song...

Birthdays and Breakups

We both remember last year
You stepped out for some air
I wouldn't let them start that stupid song
Without you there

I walked outside to find you
Kissing him, after the fact
365 days
And I will get you back

Birthdays and breakups, baby
I don't know why
You always leave the party
With a different guy
And that's okay
Naw, you don't hafta stay
Go take your new distraction and the action
Of your put upon display

Birthdays and breakups, baby
Don't bring no cheer
And they both seem to happen
Every single year
But I suppose
That everybody knows
It's awful hard to retroact a falling track
Of planned-out dominoes

And that's alright
Baby, that's okay
You weren't what I wished for
Anyway

I'm glad that you could make it
How long's it been?
Let's not let a year go by
To see each other again
So, what have you been up to?
It's been too long
So, where's that guy that brought you?
I hope that I'm wrong
When I suggest
He's tried his level best
To get the seven digits from ya friends
That he has mentally undressed

Birthdays and breakups, baby
Remind me of you

We both remember last year
You stepped out for some air
I wouldn't let them start that stupid song
Without you there
I walked outside to find you
All alone, out by the curb
365 days
To get what you deserve
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DONKEY STEAK "Birthdays and Breakups"

I love you...I love you...love...LOVE.....

Don't it feel like a dollar ride
Just a matter of your precious time
Burning hearts---full of pain
Birthdays and breakups again and again

Silky smooth I can taste it no more
Moving on is just a case of the norm
Fate is a curse as my soul is a stain
Birthdays and breakups again and again

Don't want your pity anymore
Just want to hurt you in close quarters

Tell me more lies so we can just say goodbye
Too proud to beg too weary to cry
It's all the same I've got no one to blame
Birthdays and breakups again and again

And again
And again
And again...
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birthdays and breakups
words by e money
music by brody

i'm sitting here an older man
looking back on my days
thinkin bout the gifts i found
in places along the way

little wagon when i was five
guitar at fifteen
but the greatest gift that came to me
was you walkin off my scene

every time i think of you
all my skies turn brown
the birthdays where you set me up
for the day you let me down

"soul mate" whispers in my ear
turned out you were wrong
you lit the candles on my cake
but the fuse went to a bomb

you left my life and i was done
but i woke up one day
I realized what you made of me
and the brown skies cleared away

the birthdays and the breakups
made the brown skies clear away
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Birthdays and Breakups
by Blind Mime Ensemble

words & music by Bryan Baker

Do you hide your age
Even from the pages
Of your multi-volume diaries?
Where you cry about men
How again and again...
When will they tire of the irony?

And every year it's all the same
You're left alone when party games
Grow stale and then the last guest breaks
Toss the napkins and the party hats
Straighten out the welcome mat
Or will that be your fatal mistake?

When birthdays and breakups
Pass by you
Birthdays and breakups
Leave a mark on you

Sometimes the next stranger
Offers chances with danger
That will sweep away the mundane, if not the disdain
But failing that
And failing tit for tat
They'll both get your through the false refrains

Where rhyming hope with rope
And dope with cope -- let 'em puzzle over metaphors
It's enough to leave you wishing
That your wishes were fishes
That were gobbled up by semaphores

When birthdays and breakups
Pass by you
Birthdays and breakups
Leave a mark on you

So you curl up with your diary
XIII slash IV
This page is filled with teardrop frowns
Littered through a landscape
Of falsehopes then heartache
No chivalry to save you now

You're sleeping on crumbs
Your body's too numb
To feel the dog lick your nose
Tomorrow at eight
You'll be running a bit late
But that's how this story goes

When birthdays and breakups
Pass by you
Birthdays and breakups
Leave a mark on you

When birthdays and breakups
Pass by you
Birthdays and breakups
Leave a mark on you
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Mouth Reliant - Breakups and Birthdays

And this is the face
Of useless interaction
This is the calendar
The clock with no hands
This is our policy
Of non-intervention
These are the canyons
That cut through the land
We begin dying
As soon as we’re born
And yet there are birthdays
Too many to name
Old men are lunatics
Children are fools
Two different equations
That work out the same

Listen to me!
Behold the virtues of Simplicity!
The hour is late!
Cast off that dead weight!

I know you can.

Y’know, there’s an understanding I’ve reached with the opposite sex. Sex. That’s just it. Avoid it like the plague. Hooray for negative population growth! Hallelujah!

Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
And we apologize
Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Now it’s time to
Breakup
Breakup
Breakup
It isn’t worth it, brother!
Breakup
Breakup
Breakup
Don’t be a father or mother!

This is the age of the emancipated bachelor!
There is no greater perversion than an unwanted child!
Spare me the mewling horror of another generation
This social molestation is really not my style.

The vast majority of relationships end in tragedy and disaster. Reproduction only serves to prolong a nasty situation. Take a page from world events. Now is the time for the preemptive strike. Disassociate yourself from entanglements. This is the method! This is the solution!

I will not by offended
By relentless fornication
As long as I am not coerced
To pay for this disease
And so we cut the ribbon
On a brand new shopping mall
And the floodgates are opened
And we drift out to sea
There’s a season for everything
And a time for every purpose
But we’re running out of daylight
And time does not exist
And it’s time, you know it’s time
I said it’s t-t-t-t-time
It’s time to be completely free
Solitude is bliss

Listen to me!
Behold the virtues of Simplicity!
The hour is late!
It’s time to cast off that dead weight!

Or something to that effect.
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by Hoblit

I hardly ever use this thread but in light of my recent mix, I have remixed it and I am posting the lyrics now too.

Birthdays and Breakups

Birthdays are hard to do
because even if you make it through
another year, you still live in fear

Breaking up is hard to do
because even if you make it through
a couple years, there will always be more tears

When you live as long as I
you start to feel like you've run out of time
and fear slowly starts to reappear

Then you try to justify
how you spent so much god damned time
and then you think, hey how 'bout another drink

And just when you get it right
you think just maybe one more night
and you'll be free and live in peace

No matter how hard you try
You find yourself just scraping by
Each day seems to be a little more
Aggrivating than the day before
And that goes to show
How you need to know
How to flow

Birthdays are hard to do
because even if you make it through
another year, you still live in fear

Breaking up is hard to do
because even if you make it through
another year, you will shed another tear

' Hoblit '
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Birthdays and Breakups
by Balls to Monte

Birthdays and breakups,
Mergers and make ups,
Cocktails and crackups,
Tempests in teacups:
They all end in tears.

The party's final hour
Celebration gone sour
A crying drunkard's shame:
His crazy, no-win game

No need for subway tokens
To take his trip in time.
The bin of old pain opens,
And haunts his muddled mind.

The party guests are puzzled
At sudden tears and rage.
Should they soothe and comfort
Or leave his private stage?

Birthdays and breakups,
Mergers and make ups,
Cocktails and crackups,
Tempests in teacups:
They all end in tears.

The couple's voices rise
with sad and angry words
She begs for something tender
But how, he can't remember

A plate of fat and gristle,
Their meals, untouched and cold
At last, he starts to bristle
As fated end unfolds

She slides the papers over,
at last he stops the fight
He pays the check and exits
Into the rainy night
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The Landfills
Birthdays and Breakups

You thought that you meant so much
You thought that I really cared
It's touching that you'd think that of me
But that won't get you spared

(Chorus)
Breakin' up with you on my birthday
Was the greatest gift I got
Baskin' in my new-found freedom
I really needed this a lot

I'm so glad I gave this to me
This is something I so deserve
I just hope you don't take it so hard

It's nothing personal
Just somethin' that I do
Think of it as tradition
Livin' without you


But it's time that I do this thing
Time to set the record straight
Time to kick you out of here
I'm startin' a new life today

(Chorus)

I'm really hope that you don't think
That I'm too callous or rude
It's just that you're so gullible
To think I ever loved you
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