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It's Not My Birthday

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song nameIt's Not My Birthday
artistThey Might Be Giants
albumThey'll Need A Crane (EP), Don't Let's Start (LP), Miscellaneous T, Then: The Earlier Years, Podcast 28A
year1989
first playedJune 26, 1987 (58 known performances)
run time1:52
sung byJohn Linnell

[edit] Trivia/Info

  • From the Then liner notes: "The lyrics for It's Not My Birthday have defied simple interpretation, probably out of irresponsibility or laziness on the part of its young author."
  • The line, "I'll never see that recipe again," references the 1968 Richard Harris single, MacArthur Park, which contained the line, "I'll never have that recipe again," in reference to a melting cake.

[edit] Song Themes

Colors, Drinking, Food, Holidays, Jail And Imprisonment, Oxymorons, Paradoxes, And Contradictory Statements, Questions, References To Other Songs Or Musicians, Relatives, Tongue-Twisters, Transportation, Water, Weather

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