My Sister's Birthday Paroles

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
to bring up the past
is like twisting a knife

but oh
when we were kids
she stuck up for me
when no one else did