On Any Other Day Lyrics

Lyric discussion by aesob 

Cover art for On Any Other Day lyrics by Police, The

I'm surprised no one's mentioned this until now. I've never thought much of this song musically, purposely sung badly and with some odd lines thrown in ("when the wombat comes"...wtf?), but it really comes together for me in the end.

It would be ok on any other day, but what's so special about this day? A lot of folks have never listened closely enough to hear amongst the final repeated refrain the reason why. Listen to what the children are singing: "Happy birthday, dear daddy, happy birthday, to you."

Yeah, dude. Sucks to be you.

Ah ! Thank you ! Never heard that birthday line before.

ive heard that in the back round of it at the end but iv never noticed thats what it was saying