| 歌曲 | I Was Born |
| 歌手 | The Magnetic Fields |
| 专辑 | i |
| I was born -- | |
| I hate this part | |
| Being someone new | |
| Being torn -- seeing someone who died | |
| As you grew | |
| Growing older is killing a child | |
| Who laughed and smiled | |
| At anything | |
| Growing colder and less and less wild | |
| And learning to sing | |
| I was young -- then not so young | |
| Scary either way | |
| One more rung down that black ladder | |
| Every day | |
| One more floor | |
| Down the elevator | |
| To oblivion -- what fun | |
| But the singularly awful one | |
| Is being born |