Bright Eyes - Happy Birthday To Me (February 15) Lyrics

the chords and melody of this sounds similar to When Not Being Stupid Is Not Enough by Built to Spill. Both are incredible songs, I get chills every time.

Music usually doesn't make me cry, but this made me completely break down.

Still great another year later.

Happy birthday Conor!

Happy birthday to me.

Happy Birthday, Conor!! I love you!! 💜

All eyes on the calendar
Another year I claim of total indifference
To here, the days pile up
With decisions to be made, I'm sure all of them were wrong
Into this song I send myself
And with these drinks I plan to collapse
And forget this wasted year, these wasted years
Devoted friends, they disappear
And I'm sorry about the phone call and needing you
Some decisions you don't make
I guess it's just like breathing and not wanting to
There are some things you can't fake
I guess that it's typical
To cling to memories you'll never get back again
And to sort through old photographs
Of a summer long ago or a friend that you used to know
And there below
His frozen face
You wrote the name and that ancient date, that ancient date
And you can't believe that he's really gone
When all that's left is a fucking song and
I'm sorry about the phone call; and waking you.
I know that it is late,
But thank you for talking, because I needed to.
Some things just can't wait.
(Yeah, some things just can't wait)

my birthday is february 15th and i listen 2 this song every year :')

It's insane the difference of what these lyrics meant to me as a 17 year old versus what they mean to me as a 34 year old. Time, man

i read this.
and understood it.
then i felt it,
and it made me hurt.

for real

This is still my go to "fuck I'm depressed song".. lol

Same. As a happy-go-lucky teen/early 20s I loved this song. Now as I re-listen, as a somewhat depressed 33 year old, after losing my mom and then soon after my best friend to suicide, I've hit a rough patch, and this song has taken on a different meaning. Still love it though.

@Heather Chapman I feel that... it is wonderfully surreal

Ever since I found it, I come back and listen to this song every year on my birthday. Mostly out of ironic coincidence, but partly out of depressing empathy.

happy birthday to me. twelfth

Happy brithday to me

"Yeah some things just can't waaaaiiiiitttt" God this song is so beautiful. I'm sorry that conor suffered from such crippling depression but paradoxically it brought such beauty into the world.

Happy Birthday to me tomorrow (February 16th)

Happy birthday!!!!!

Another year I claim of total indifference :(

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday, Conor Oberst! I know you've heard this before but I love you very very very very very much. Thank you. I'm just sad because I started listening to your music one year ago.

This is the only birthday gift that i've got this year :)

Based off of personal experience, and these comments... I think it's safe to say that this is the #1 sad-birthday song. I've listened to it the week of my birthday for the past 3 years. (Mine is only 5 days after conor's, on feb. 20).

So to all of you listening to this on your birthday today, feeling sad... Happy Birthday. It will get better.

thank you, I hope things have changed for you too in the six years since your comment

on m birthday was the first time i listened to this song. and it was a sad birthday. and every single lyric he sang was a part of what i was feeling and still am feeling.

1am on my birthday.. thank you conor
we love you very very very very very very much

i got cocaine for my birthday

Patty Curtis lucky basterd :/

good job

@sammybenana
hey
it's my birthday too
and I feel the same
you should message me
later tho
cause i;m really high righ tnow

this song=my life

It's my birthday. Wish I had someone to call. Even on my birthday I get treated like shit.

@cblackshear01
I am very sorry for your loss. Bright Eyes has a way to meand the soul with sadness, it almost makes you more sad, but it feels so good...