Stay Lucky

It took so long to get me back on my feet

It takes so long to find the words and the beat

Charlie's waiting on the end of the phone

To hear you call him when you try to recapture



But them old records won't be saving your soul

And them feelings died for reasons, you know

But you've forgotten somewhere riding the train

To a place you bought out in the Coca



And it feels like all you'd have to do is step outside

Stop pacing around and waiting for some moment

That might never arrive



But you're never gonna find it

Like when you were young

And everybody used to call you lucky



Nothing feels right in the winter and cold

Steam, heat, clang, and the dark at your door

All the other rooms are a party tonight

And you never got an invitation



And you feel it in your bones, steady, aching some more

Twenty-five years gone about an hour ago

Mama never told me there'd be days like these

Til it was much too late to recover



And it feels like all you'd have to do is step outside

Stop pacing around and waiting for some moment

That might never arrive



But you're never gonna find it

When your knees got so weak

But it's right here in case you need it

Like when you were young and everybody used to call you lucky

When you were young and everybody used to call you lucky



But it feels like you just might explode inside

You've been pacing around here waiting for some moment

That might never arrive at all



What you don't have, you don't need it anymore

What you don't have, you don't need it anymore



But you're never gonna find it

When your knees got so weak

And it's right here in case you need it

Like when you were young and everybody used to call you lucky

When you were young and everybody used to call you lucky



If you're anywhere in Manhattan in the next eight days or so

Let me know

Speak soon

Stay lucky