Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

Well the rain falls down without my help I'm afraid

and my lawn gets wet though I've withheld my consent

when this grey world crumbles like a cake

I'll be hanging from the hope

that I'll never see that recipe again

Verse 2

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 keeps rolling off the track

trying to act like something else

trying to go where it's been uninvited

Chorus

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 we were there, I was less than we could bear

and I'm not the only dust my mother raised

Bridge

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

Verse 3

And the the rain falls down without my help I'm afraid

and my lawn gets wet though I've withheld my consent

when this grey world crumbles like a cake

I'll be hanging from the hope

that I'll never see that recipe again

Chorus

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 we 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