Today is today wake up, wake up.
Jump out of bed and jump on you parent’s bed.
Their bed rocks again, again today.
Time for breakfast, daddy had gin
Mommy had smoke and cried again

I had nothing, but that’s okay
Because today, today is my Birthday
The school bus comes Yellow and fun
And up goes bright
The light of the sun

I get to school and the teacher gasps
At the fact that I’m ten!-as far as I can grasp
I’m rushed off away
Woosh woosh woosh
The the nurse’s office
Push Push Push
She looks at me and gasps. Oh she gasps
Still, I turned ten, is all I can grasp

A smile turned wide on my black and blue face
But blue is my favorite color
I scrawl it on a page
I’m wooshed off again
Rush Rush Rush
Off to another, to another bus

This one is different, a tad odd and strange
It drives far off, out of my range
I cry again, this time for joy
It must be a surprise party oh joy, oh boy!
But the place we arrive is strange and obtuse
They examine real fast, the blacks and the blues

They poke and prod
and sit and they nod
I’m whisked away
Again Again
Whisk Whisk Whisk
They tisk tisk tisk

I’m thrown in a room
With other boys and girls
Today I was ten
Tomorrow is then
And I was eighteen
And to my parents, again, I never was seen