What Does It Take To Get Lucky-Richard Clapton

[ti:What Does It Take To Get Lucky] [ar:Richard Clapton] [al:Diamond Mine] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]What Does It Take To Get Lucky - Richard Clapton [00:14.65]Look at my face in the window [00:16.14] [00:16.75]Of that big Mercedes Benz [00:18.50] [00:19.21]I'm just another bum on the streets downtown [00:21.53]I ain't worked since god knows when [00:23.26] [00:24.56]Each night in Bluesville I been hanging out [00:27.79] [00:29.34]With all the usual layabouts [00:31.98] [00:34.15]I lost my fight with the government [00:37.02] [00:38.93]They stole my life and my confidence [00:42.28] [00:52.27]Ain't had a job for so many years [00:55.74] [00:56.94]Slip sliding down in a big abyss [01:00.42] [01:01.91]So many times got a knife in the back [01:05.23] [01:06.54]That's how it goes on the wrong side of the tracks [01:11.42] [01:20.96]What does it take to get lucky [01:23.90] [01:25.77]When you've been living on the edge [01:28.42] [01:30.58]The price we pay to get happy [01:33.34] [01:35.40]Is way too high for an ordinary man [01:39.13] [01:40.19]What does it take to get lucky [01:42.91] [01:44.98]When you can't beat the government [01:48.13] [01:49.79]When they can smell your desperation [01:53.08] [01:54.59]Ain't got no money and no friends [01:57.52] [01:59.41]So many times I've tried to finally get it right [02:02.77] [02:04.10]Picked myself up again and got on with my life [02:07.62] [02:08.96]I worked my life away working for the basic wage [02:13.12] [02:13.77]When they were done with me [02:15.73]I found myself out on the street [02:17.85] [02:18.56]What happened to the dream of everything they promised me [02:22.56] [02:23.27]Am I supposed to fade away and leave another vacant space [02:28.02]Fade to gray and disappear [02:29.77] [02:30.46]Like I was never here [02:32.20] [02:32.85]If there's a god above [02:34.97]I need a shot of love [02:37.65] [03:06.63]What does it take to get lucky [03:09.38] [03:11.41]We live from one day to the next [03:14.41] [03:16.19]The bankers and the politicians [03:19.43] [03:20.99]Are living high off the ordinary man [03:24.43] [03:25.80]What does it take to get lucky [03:28.63] [03:30.59]We try to make some sense of it [03:33.13] [03:35.39]They feed off all our desperation [03:38.44] [03:40.16]Driving us down to the bitter end [03:43.41] [03:44.99]We all just live our lives from one day to the next [03:48.52] [03:49.74]Pick ourselves up again and try to make amends [03:53.43] [03:54.58]There'll always be some guy holding up another sign [03:59.00]You can't do this you can't do that [04:01.34]And you'd just better pay your tax [04:03.54] [04:04.17]Ain't gonna live my life by the laws of church and state [04:07.74] [04:08.98]I'll keep on working for my independence day [04:12.62] [04:13.78]Break away and disappear ain't gonna live in fear [04:17.92] [04:18.54]If there's a god above I need a shot of love