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This is a video of me phoning up my friend and singing him a birthday song that I wrote. The xylophone was added in post, but the ukulele and singing is "live".

LYRICS
According to a base 10 numerical system
that we made up to satisfy our needs to
quantify and analyse the existence of
particular particle configurations,

and according to a calendar originally
developed in order to control the
growing of digestible crops,
so we don't starve and die and decompose...

It's been a specific and somehow significant period of time
since the moment you shot out of the birth canal
I hope you're feeling well and that your life is swell
but you know as well as I...

The world is a dead place,
every day's the same, we're all atoms
shooting around in a pointless game
And there's nothing left to do,
except wish a happy birthday to you!

I read on wikipedia that Plato argued that the
meaning of life is in attaining the highest
form of knowledge, which is the idea of the good,
from which all good things derive their value,

While Aristotle took the approach that we can
find meaning through always striving towards the
greatest good, setting aside all other goods,
setting aside our other desires...

What's the deal with all these ancient greeks
Why did they even bother to disagree?
How did they even get up the energy?
It just makes me so god damned angry!

The world is a dead place,
every day's the same, we're just atoms
bouncing around in a pointless game
And there's nothing left to do,
except wish a happy birthday to you!

You know atheism doesn't necessarily
go hand in hand with a disillusionment regarding
the wonderful wonderfulness of the world,
in fact some people say it heightens the -

- experience of being alive,
when you know there's only so much time,
But I guess that's not the case for me or you...
Because no matter what I say or what I do...
You won't come out of your room, when you're feeling blue,
so happy fucking birthday to you!
Yeah, happy fucking birthday -

It's been a specific and somehow significant period of time
since the moment you shot out of the birth canal
I hope you're feeling well and that your life is swell
but you know as well as I...

The world is a dead place,
every day's the same, we're just atoms
bouncing around in a pointless game
And there's nothing left to do,
except wish a happy birthday,
yeah, happy fucking birthday,
yeah, happy god damned
motherfucking birthday... to you.