Hard Luck - Climax Blues Band

From the day I was born

I was a nothin' at all

But a troubled man on the street

My friends tried to help me

But I was too far gone

To hear what they were sayin' to me

I was deaf, dumb and blind

Just out of my mind

In the life of the wild and free

I hooked up with a crowd

That let loose a little loud

But it felt like a family

A-makin' money in the city

But it wasn’t always pretty

Just gon' be what I was gonna be

That life came and took me

From

'Cause it wasn’t about to set me free

They call me hard luck, hard luck

'Cause hard luck was my middle name

They call me hard luck, hard luck

Hard luck was my middle name

I’ve had so much bad luck

Feel I’m goin' up in flames

Now I’ve had some funky situations

That required investigations

And they tried to put it all on me

See I was and alive

And always survivin'

A-livin' a life of luxury

In a house upon the hill

I’d be livin' there still

If I didn’t have a habit to feed

Now I did this fifteen and a ten

And I remember feelin' then

That I’d never do a stretch again

And as soon as I was free

I’d get back to bein' me

With the bottle and the Mary Jane

All the women and the cars

And the backstreet bars

Where everybody knew my name

They call me hard luck, hard luck

'Cause hard luck was my middle name

They call me hard luck, hard luck

Hard luck was my middle name

I’ve had so much bad luck

Feel I’m goin' up in flames

So as I sit here lookin' back

On what I have become

Ain’t surprised that I took a fall

Had no patience or respect

Only madness and neglect

And now I’m starin' at the same old wall

There comes a time in your life

Where the change would do you good

But I’ve never found the time at all

They call me hard luck, hard luck

'Cause hard luck was my middle name

They call me hard luck, hard luck

Hard luck was my middle name

I’ve had so much bad luck

Feel I’m goin' up in flames

They call me hard luck, hard luck

'Cause hard luck was my middle name

They call me hard luck, hard luck

Hard luck was my middle name

I’ve had so much bad luck

Feel I’m goin' up in flames