Birthday Boy

This song was written about Gene's then girlfriend (now ex-wife), Sarah. Story goes she broke up with him on his 20th birthday and he wrote this song.

He also wrote "Sarah" and "Baby Bitch" about her.

This is the greatest song ever written.

first of all, I need to correct the last stanza: it's several answering machine messages for Aaron (Gener) on his birthday. so, it's "happy birthday dear Aaron" (not Karen).

this is my favorite ween song, and i was lucky enough to get to see them open with it in Boulder last year. i think it's about the poignant feeling of knowing a relationship is ending, that it's the best thing, but also feeling a very strong connection (and protective feeling) for the person and mourning the end of your love.

This song is about Gener confronting the fact that, while he has had a painful breakup with a woman, he still cares for her. A more cynical sequel to this song is "Baby Bitch", on Chocolate and Cheese.

The sound clips before the song, the synth sound and the sonar blips, and after the song, "Cloudless everyday you fall upon my waking eyes, In...", are excerpts from Pink Floyd - Echoes.

reaal easy to relate to. Geners brings a lot of emotion into this song you can tell its close to the heart. i really like how he kinda flip flops on the way he feels on and off through out the song. He sounds happy about the break up in lines like "and i couldnt wait for you to leave" and "i couldnt believe that i was free". but then doesnt seem fine with it in lines such as "help me now im going down, and i dont know if ill be okay" especially given that in the second verse he says "im alright, yah im really okay". you can see and hear that hes in pain and hurt, but at the same time trying to convince himself hes okay with it.

This is such a gorgeous heart-wrenching song.. Probably one of the most affecting songs I've ever heard. Pretty impressive for just a distorted guitar and voice, but that's the power of Ween and Gener's awesome vocals. What I wonder is if this really was as personal as it sounds.. I could never figure out if the intro ("Paiiinn") was sarcastic or not. Really sounds directly from the heart and it kills me every time.

I read in an interview with Deaner somewhere that this is his own personal favorite Ween song. I thought that was awesome cause this song always blows my mind! I consider it their most poetic song. I would love to hear it covered by Tom Petty or Fiona Apple. Is that weird?

I heard them play a version of this song on acoustic guitar one time that almost had me crying my eyes out it was so gorgeous.

yeah this song is simply mind blowing