Lyrics Birthday 元ちとせ
Written by
the sugarcubes
Composition
the sugarcubes
she lives in this house over there
has her world outside it.
grapples the earth with her fingers and her mouth
she’s five years old.
threads worms on a string
Keeps spiders in her pockets
collects fly-wings in a jar
scrubs horse-flies and pinches them on a line.
she got one friend he lives next door
they listen to the weather
he know how many freckles
she’s got, she scratches his beard.
she’s painting fuge books
glues them together, they saw a big raven
it glided down the sky-she touched it.
today’s a birthday-they’re smoking cigars
he got a chain of flowers
snow a bird in her knickers
they’re smoking cigars
lie in the bathtub, chain of flowers.