Birthday

Album: Life's Too Good (1987)
Charted: 65
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  • She lives in this house over there
    Has her world outside it
    Scrabbles in the earth with her fingers and her mouth
    She's five years old
    Threads worms on a string
    Keeps spiders in her pocket
    Collects fly wings in a jar
    Scrubs horse flies and, and pinches them on a line

    Oh
    Oh
    Oh
    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
    Oh
    Oh
    Oh

    Today is her birthday
    They're smoking cigars
    He's got a chain of flowers
    And sews a bird in her knickers

    Oh
    Oh
    Oh
    Oh

    They're smoking cigars
    They lie in the bathtub
    A chain of flowers Writer/s: Björk Gudmundsdottir, Bragi Olafsson, Einar Benediktsson, Fridrik Erlingsson, Sigtryggur Baldursson, Thor Eldon Jonsson
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Moosehead from Scsmoking seagulls...speak english bjork. love this song
  • Moosehead from Sci love this song!!! smoking seagulls, for sure!!!
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