Singles
16 Aug 2026 · 3:52 · Pop · 210 plays
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You still say text me when you land.
I am a grown man with a mortgage and grey in my hair
and you still say text me when you land.
You'd have walked me to a door I could see from the house.
Coat on. Take the long way. Ring me from the platform.
The world was always one degree more dangerous
in your version of it than in anybody else's —
and I have never once been able to talk you down.
And I used to find that heavy. I genuinely did.
Took me half a life to hear what it was —
Happy birthday. (happy birthday)
Many happy returns. (many happy returns)
Every fuss you ever made
was just love with nowhere else to go.
The whole day's yours.
Nobody's worrying but you.
And you believe people. All of them. Immediately.
You'd hand your details to a stranger with a nice voice
because it never once occurs to you that anyone's lying,
because you've never been the one who's lying.
You believed everything I told you when I was seventeen.
Not a word of it was true. Not one word.
And I'm not going to correct the record tonight —
that boy stays perfect. He's yours. Keep him.
You think the best of everybody and you always have.
It's cost you. You've done it anyway —
You never got hard. You had every reason.
You just kept answering the door.
That's not naive, whatever they told you.
That's the bravest way to live.
Right — glasses up. Short one, I promise.
To every mother who slept badly for about thirty years
over a phone that didn't ring, and never said so in the morning.
To the ones who worried too much, and trusted too easily,
and would do the whole thing again from the start without changing a line.
Go on. Blow them out. Take your time.
And for once — just tonight — let somebody else do the worrying.
Happy birthday! (happy birthday!)
Many happy returns! (many happy returns!)
Come back round and do it again,
and text us when you land, and we'll answer every time.
You were frightened for us for a lifetime.
Sit down. We've got it from here.
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