Bad Luck Streak

"Bad Luck Streak"
2010

If I had a dime for every disappointment
I would let the truth be told
'Cause loose change would fill my world
And I wouldn't have a thing to hold
So you can offer me your good advice
But forgive me if I don't
Believe that my luck will ever change
'Cause we both know it won't
So check the odds and place your bets
While I brace myself for this
'Cause sorrow's got a major lead
On happiness and bliss
Now anger's driving up the back
Hoping to catch up with the pain
Since this bad luck streak I'm on
Has me about to fold again
'Cause if I had a dime for every time
That you ever walked away
This loose change would fill my world
But the jukebox wouldn't play
Any of kind of happy song
It'd be just guitars and screams
'Cause I've been here so many times
Nightmares start to look like dreams
So check the odds and place your bets
While I brace myself for this
'Cause sorrow's got a major lead
On happiness and bliss
Now anger's driving up the back
Hoping to catch up with the pain
Since this bad luck streak I'm on
Has me about to fold again
So you cut the cards or stack the deck
But it won't help me in the least
'Cause no matter how I play this game
All it does is cost me peace
So maybe I'll sit out this hand
Until I can pull myself a queen
Who can make this Jack of Hearts a King
And rule beside me in a dream
But this so-called throne I own
Will become a coffin with the nail
If I don't scratch and claw and fight
Until I see myself prevail
So you can check the odds and place your bets
I've braced myself for this
'Cause sorrow had a major lead
On happiness and bliss
But now my confidence is coming back
Leaving little room for pain
So maybe this bad luck streak I'm on
Will end before I go insane.
Here goes nothing...