All the Birthdays - The Apartments

O it’s madtime bedtime and full of possibilities

All the birthdays come at once

Been swamped by vaudeville?

Can’t defeat your innocence

Though it’s good for only teady bears and kittens

I’m slow with small talk, we used to get on famously

Now there’s nothing to perfect

Got sold on big talk it just doesn’t matter anymore

It’s cold, you’d better come on inside

So you get restless don’t it get the same for everyone?

Convinced by only one time in their lives

And been full of gifts — you have no one to give them to

When all the birthdays come at once

Keep your distance the game’s not worth the candle of confusing

Vanity with power

You say I seem so distant lost all sense of consequences

But I try to keep this world alight

Vanished days only mean so much by vanishing

All the birthdays are best forgotten

So I shrug my shoulders and slip into another tongue

Knowing nothing can be perfect

Took that curse — there’s nothing left could do us any harm

Spare me the rituals of sorrow