HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETHEART

Happy birthday, Sweetheart. Happy birthday We can't hold back the swiftness of Time Shedding my soul's defense – all hypocrisy I'll surrender to sorrow. And I'll drink my wine I will remember the years that have passed Gently blowing the dust from what's gone It's not the first time in my memory cast That your age now begins with a five from now on Thoughts flow smoothly, outside of chronology A tapestry of moments without dates We are big. We are simply Great, you see To have managed to break so much at the gates There are tapes. It's all captured on video Our son at school... the younger one chases the cat You are laughing... You're dancing... a beautiful show! But the magnetic layer will soon fall flat Life with you, like a thread of red mulberry silk Wove itself deep in my subconscious mind The Star will never grasp the nature of the split Between the concepts, 'to have' and 'to love', you'll find The night is ending. Enough of this poetry I am lying to myself. I should howl at the moon Into the golden toilet of life's daily routine We spilled ourselves out and flushed it all away too soon Happy birthday, Sweetheart. Happy birthday Happy birthday, Sweetheart. Happy birthday Happy birthday, Sweetheart. Happy birthday Happy birthday, Sweetheart. Happy birthday