Lyrics:Lucky Ball & Chain (Flood Show)
| Lucky Ball & Chain (Flood Show) |
| By: They Might Be Giants |
| Year: 2001 |
JF: So, uh we're doing uh this uh special first half of the show is all our entire Flood album in a row. When we uh, when we started rehearsing for this uh show this afternoon a couple of I-I you know, we couldn't h-help but uh think of 19-1990 and you know the Watergate and the gas crisis, and uh brought back a lot of memories. So uh here's uh here's song number three. I guess, yeah. I lost my lucky ball and chain Now she's four years gone Just five feet tall and sick of me And all my rattling on She threw away her baby-doll I held on to my pride But I was young and foolish then I feel old and foolish now Confidentially She never called me baby-doll Confidentially I never had much pride But now I rock a bar stool And I drink for two Just pondering this time bomb in my mind I lost my lucky ball and chain Now she's four years gone Just five feet tall and sick of me And all my rattling on She walked away from a happy man I thought I was so cool I just stood there whistling "There goes the bride" as she walked out the door "There goes the bride" as she walked out the door I could shake my tiny fist And swear I wasn't wrong But what's the sense in arguing When you're all alone? Sure as you can't steer a train You can't change your fate And when she threw me off that day I knew I'd lost my home Confidentially I never told you of her charms Confidentially We never had a home But this railroad apartment Was the perfect place When she'd sit and hold me in her arms I lost my lucky ball and chain Now she's four years gone Just five feet tall and sick of me And all my rattling on She walked away from a happy man I thought I was so cool I just stood there whistling (x4)"There goes the bride" as she walked out the door |
