Alone On My Birthday Lyrics - Singles - Shelter

No decoration on, no cake 

Nobody remembered this important date 

Guitar, pen, brain start to contemplate 

They're the only 3 here for this joyous celebration 

Because I'm self-absorbed, I get upset 

Mad at the world, how could they forget? 

I was alone at birth, I'll be alone at death 

Hope I won't be alone at my final destination 

Never really thought it would've happened to me 

But that night I say by the telephone 

Never really thought it would've happened to me 

I spent my birthday all alone 

Birth's a costume with a genetic script 

We play some role that we'd like to fit 

And never admit that we're full of it 

And live life in some sort of dazed hallucination 

I'll never lament because life is brief 

Our bodies are changing like the autumn leaf 

It's said that time is the greatest thief 

And beats and cheats this entire population 

But it's alright, home tonight, just suits me fine 

I don't mind spending time with my mind all alone