My Sister’s Birthday - Advance Base

My sister & me

We don’t see eye to eye

She’s got religion

& I don’t ask why

Her husband & kids

They all pray to the sky

It was my sister’s birthday

The other night

36 candles

For someone to light

But I didn’t call her

& I didn’t write

Oh

When we were kids

She stuck up for me

When no one else did

My sister’s got a scar

Under her eye

Where I hit her with a sparkler

When she was 5

On the Klamath River

The 4th of July

My sister’s got a heart

That’s open wide

Can’t seem to talk

Without making her cry

To bring up the past

Is like twisting a knife

Oh

When we were kids

She stuck up for me

When no one else did