You can hardly walk Try to sleep it off Lost your voice again Don't talk You won't let us down Friday doesn't count You waited all week long for this Such a shame you'll miss every bit of it You're twenty-six today Here comes the aftertaste You're twenty-six today Another piece of chocolate cake Break lights off and on But no one ever stops Saving up your sick days With a steady cough She needs more than love But this is all you got A heart that's halfway gone And a head that's tied in knots Don't tell me you forgot She's thirty-six today Still has that aftertaste She's thirty-six today One more bite of chocolate cake Almost out of room So plan your trip to Mars Send the kids to school To find out what they are And all the animals Are waiting for their turn Half a million tries But we couldn't save the world So we just let it burn