Birthday Blues - from the 1992 Wreckless Eric album The Donovan Of Trash

I was sitting on the kitchen floor remains of a chair thinking
One of us must be ill
Did she really say there was love left on the cooker
There's another man's kipper on the grill
The doggie wants its dinner there's a baby in the oven
And the main course is beginning to stink
And the more that she wants to make a meal of this
The more I wanna throw it all up in the sink
And I think I must be going crazy
Though I've never felt more sane in all my life
I'm just living with this realisation
That all I want to do is live until I die
And I could cry
Cry
All she wants to do is ask why why why why why

I'm splashing round money like Eau de Cologne
I'm trying to keep everything sweet
She's running here and there like a chicken without a head and
I'm nearly dead on my feet
Everything's stratched to the limit
I'm pushing this barrel up the hill
Her and her life's a calamity
She's the kind of person I'd like to kill
And I think I must be going crazy
Though I've never felt more sane in all my life
I'm just living with this realisation
That all I want to do is live until I die
And I could cry
Cry
All she wants to do is ask why why why why why
I cry
When all I want to do is live until I die

words and music Eric Goulden (MCPS / Copyright Control)

As I wrote in the original sleeve notes:

This catchy "pop bounce" starts out a a kitchen sink drama before moving into the broader spectrum of domestic disharmony - Andre and Catfish "rock out" with the Donovan Of Trash on the Happy Hammond.