Birthday Baby (The Girl with No Smile)

Well, happy birthday, baby

Everybody's here for you

Happy birthday, baby

Six candles lighting up the whole room

Outdated kitchen full of smiles

Everyone's standing around

We take pictures so we remember who we are

25 years from now

And I remember towers coming down

First grade September

I remember wondering "Why am I going home now?"

Daddy's crying, I ask "Why?" as apples turn to ash

We take pictures so we remember who we are

But you curse like your mother

And you act like your father

Your sister called back

But your brother doesn't have your number

So you drove by his house

Now he's got a daughter, and they named her after you

The girl with no smile, the girl with no smile

You hide your heartbeat

In a box under the bed

But it makes too much noise down there

So you swallow it up instead

Now a pounding headache keeps you awake

As you daydream through the night

We take pictures so we remember who we are

But you curse like your mother

And you act like your father

Your sister called back

But your brother doesn't have your number

So you drove by his house

Now he's got a daughter, and they named her after you

The girl with no smile, the girl with no smile

I don't want to know what it feels like

To be the rain in Seattle

I don't want to know what it feels like

To be the wind in Chicago

And I don't want to know what it feels like

To be the sunshine in L.A.

Someday, when this life's done

I'll come back as something you love

I'll come back as something you can love

Well, happy birthday, baby

Everybody's here for you

Happy birthday, baby

One candle lighting up the whole room

Outdated kitchen full of smiles

Everyone's standing around

We take pictures so we remember who we are