Name: Better Being Lucky
Duration: P00H03M59S
Description: The third single from Dancing in Death/The Place Where the River Makes a Sound

Better Being Lucky

from Better Being Lucky by Edgar Derby

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The third single from Dancing in Death/The Place Where the River Makes a Sound

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Paint a picture in your mind
You don't need details, everything's fine
Roll yourself up a hill
Sew your patch on with a porcupine quill

Eat a cupcake with a spoon
Walk a tightrope between the sun and the moon
When it's time to make a kill
Ask that soldier to please stand still

You don't need to have some fancy name
You don't have to play some pointless game
The ones out there? They're all the same
There's nothing wrong with being lucky

Grow some daisies in a car
Your enemies, they won't get far
Shoot an arrow down a hill
It doesn't matter whose blood you spill
Plaid on top, twill on bottom
I'd've worn my wingtips but I forget 'em
Fire that mortar, ask her to dance
Keep things in order, to hell with romance

You don't need to have some fancy name
You don't have to play some petty game
The ones out there? They're all the same
Just when you think you've got everything tamed
The whole wide world it goes right up in flames
The ones out there? They're all to blame
There's nothing wrong with being lucky

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from Better Being Lucky, released January 18, 2021
Performed by Edgar Derby, Killian Smith, and Kevin Cho
Produced by Ben Jackson and Edgar Derby
Recorded and mixed by Ben Jackson at Cafe Solo Studios, Denton, TX
Mastered by Frank Gagliardi
Art by Caroline Hailson

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Edgar Derby is a hobo-folk act based in Denton, Texas.

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