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Outdated kitchen full of smiles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 'round
We take pictures so we remember who we are
Twenty-five 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
And 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
And 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
And now he's got a daughter
And they named her after you
The girl with no smile
The girl with no smile

(Ah-ah)
I don't wanna know what it feels like
To be the rain in seattle (ah-ah)
I don't wanna know what it feels like
To be the wind in chicago (ah-ah)
And I don't want to know what it feels like
To be the sunshine in la (ah-ah)
Someday, when this life's done
I'll come back as something you can love
I'll come back as something you can love, oh, oh-oh

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Outdated kitchen full of smiles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 'round
We take pictures so we remember who we are