LUCKY

LUCKY
Gallagher / Galeazzi / Eadie (Universal)

I was lucky I was loved
Nobody took me from those precious hands
I was tucked up tight at night in my own bed
With soft words that I could understand

Nobody ever said to me “hey sister”
You got mud in your veins?
You a half, you a quarter?
Does the father even know his own daughter?
Wouldn’t matter anyway wouldn’t matter anyway
They’d tell you he was dead or packed up and moved away

Seems to me the only crime is
To come from the wrong side of the blanket
And were it lust or love
The result is still the shame of it
Seems sad and foolish today
But to coin a phrase
Sorry always seems to be the hardest word to say

Oh-oh did you feel the way I do when you got the news?
Oh-oh did you feel the same way too when you got the news?
It coulda been you

I’m lucky I am loved
I don’t wake up in the middle of the night bolt upright
Thinkin’ out loud am I half black, am I half white?
No, I know who I am, where I’m from, where I’m going,
What I’m doing, what I’ve done
Just as sure as there’s going to be a new day sun

But sometimes I wonder
In the wrong place at the wrong time
I coulda been just another love crime
And now I’d be walkin’ different country in a different skin
Than the one I’m in
But I was lucky, I was lucky, I was lucky,
Lucky I was loved

Brendan Gallagher: vocals, guitars, percussion
Michael Galeazzi: electric bass
Stuart Eadie: drums, percussion
Stu Hunter: piano
Joe Accaria: percussion
Lachlan Doley: Hammond Organ
Bernie Hayes: Backing vocal
Stewart Kirwan: trumpet
Anthony Kable: trombone
Andrew Bickers: sax

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