Name: Hard Luck Story
Duration: P00H04M09S
Description: Hard Luck Story was written quite a long time ago, and I have always enjoyed bringing out its angry, aggressive nature. Kylie is an aggressively elegant tone-meister, and I love how fierce he played this. So much fun. The song came true a few months after I wrote it, and if I'd have known it was gonna do that I'd have "put" more money in the pocket. Ah well. More dreamy BGVs with Christine.

Hard Luck Story

from The Light You Can't See in the Day by Alma Drake

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Hard Luck Story was written quite a long time ago, and I have always enjoyed bringing out its angry, aggressive nature. Kylie is an aggressively elegant tone-meister, and I love how fierce he played this. So much fun. The song came true a few months after I wrote it, and if I'd have known it was gonna do that I'd have "put" more money in the pocket. Ah well. More dreamy BGVs with Christine.

lyrics

There’s a road outa town, it’s a back way
Kind of thing you hit at the break of day
when you’re leavin’,when you’re leavin’
tank full of gas and the coffee hot
Car packed up 200 in the pocket
Leavin’, leavin’
Don’t give me no hard luck story
Don’t give me no hard luck story

Engine hums and the wheels whine
Seams in the pavement got me keepin’ time
On this highway, on this highway
Interchanges slip and slither
Twist like snakes in my rear view mirror
on this high way, on this highway
Don’t give me no hard luck story
Don’t give me no hard luck story

Don’t need to think about how I feel
when change needs to happen I just get behind the wheel
And drive on, I drive on
No time to rehash my mistakes
Don’t make me slow down, don’t make me put on the brakes
No, I gotta drive on
Don’t give me no hard luck story
Don’t give me no hard luck story

credits

from The Light You Can't See in the Day, released October 25, 2022
Alma Drake: acoustic guitar, vocal, bg vocal
Christine Moad: bass, bg vocal
Ryan Rumery: drums
Kylie Buddin: electric guitar

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Alma Drake Iowa

Alma Drake (fka Gayla Drake) has been playing and performing music for over 50 years, and writing songs for over 40. They are currently a full-time sound therapy practitioner, but they continue to create and perform music on their own, with several bands, and with the Family Folk Machine choir. ... more

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