Happy Birthday (For Yesterday) - Darren Hanlon

Did you skate figure eight

On the ice in Central Park?

Did you throw balls of snow

At your friends until dark?

I guess I wanted to say…

I first called you when I woke up

I think it was almost eight

But I probably just missed you

I must have been too late

Called back that night at seven-thirty

Then I waited up till ten

In the dark in my pajamas

As the phone rang out again

Did the host raise a toast

To the day your life began?

Did someone bake your favourite cake

With your name in marzipan?

I just called to say

Happy birthday for…

I couldn’t help but think of last year

When it was just us two

But I’m sure you can celebrate

Without the help of you-know-who

And if all the gang were with you

It must have been a gas

Didn’t want you to think that

I forgot, I kid you not

Now, did you go to a show

And sentimentally keep the stub?

Did you give hugs from the drugs

That you bought in a night club?

I just called to say

Happy birthday

For yesterday