Birthday

contains all the feelings i assume many of us feel deep down about the annual celebration

worst party song ever. pretty good regular track

I love this song. It's how I feel about my birthday.

i love these lyrics. when birthdays suck, they really suck.

To me this song has its roots in the cliche feelings people usually feel about birthdays, but it really kicks it up a notch. I mean as far as "kicks" go in Blur music (maybe I should call it "drops" to stay in the present zeitgeist) this is one of the hardest ones.

The song bursts open with unbelievable angst/expressing sounds right about the middle, after all lyrics have been spoken so it's basically split in two: melancholy and fear, excruciating unhappiness. It's one of my favourite songs from Leisure.

Then the lyrics are also moving. I love the wordplay e.g. "It's my birthday"-a regular expression people say combined with "no one here-day" etc. Powerful feelings expressed with simple words that unite ever more depressing feelings.

Song fits well with the early Blur period, in which you could feel a lot of their songs are written from the standpoint of teenagers and teenage angst.

Maybe I'm oversimplifying things, but I always thought this song was about being lonely and isolated on your birthday. It's a day when you're supposed to be surrounded by people and the centre of attention, but the narrator has no one - he just sits in the park, thinking, and remembering a lost love. He feels small while others feel significant on the annual celebration.

I've come to dread my birthdays for the same reason. As a youngster they were fun, but in adulthood, not so much.

probably one of the silliest blur songs ever.