“Murphy Had a Birthday” (also listed as “Today You’re 82”) is one of several songs from a 1983 rehearsal session, The Happy Sounds of the Crowd, by a pre-Guided by Voices band called The Crowd.
It was first publicly released in 2015 on Suitcase Four, credited to The Crowd. However, the song’s title...
[Intro]
One, two, three, four
[Chorus]
Come sit before me, I've been waiting for you
Tell me your story, mine would only bore you
[Verse 1]
A young man lives his life
You're free and so unwind
An old man takes his time
Recorded out the line
I'll celebrate the years
What do you think I will hear?
We'll raise our glasses high
And let the rockets fly
[Chorus]
Come sit before me, I've been waiting for you
Tell me your story, mine would only bore you
[Verse 2]
Today you're eighty-two
We walk the path with you
I brought an open heart
I don't know where to start
But I will laugh with you
And we'll get drunk again
The time will scratch away
Beyond us thinly to the ground
[Chorus]
Come sit before me, I've been waiting for you
Tell me your story, mine would only bore you
[Verse 3]
We live in abstract words
Although it's often heard
And every man is right
To sit and white on wine
I need reality
The world wide that's for me
One day, we'll have to go
And that's through, we both know
[Chorus]
Come sit before me, I've been waiting for you
Tell me your story, mine would only bore you
[Verse 2]
Today you're eighty-two
We walk the path with you
I brought an open heart
I don't know where to start
But I will laugh with you
And we'll get drunk again
If I will scratch away
Beyond that thinly to the ground
[Outro]
Come sit before me
Come sit before me
Come sit before me
Come sit before me
Murphy Had a Birthday was written by Robert Pollard.
Murphy Had a Birthday was produced by Guided by Voices.
The Crowd (Lo-Fi) released Murphy Had a Birthday on Fri Nov 20 2015.