Lightleak - "Mr. Fortune"

From the Lightleak LP '/ Tails', out Sept. 17 via Model Love Songs

LYRICS
You came to, all confused, a mess of blood & goo; the keys to the kindly kingdom were copied just for you
Born bald & blue-eyed with bleach-white complexion, built for a landslide in county-wide elections
Now it's a life of possibilities, the oyster's open wide—your name, your face, your sex, your skin's your ticket to get inside
With all this advantage, do you ever stop & think, "Could my DNA & these lucky breaks perhaps be interlinked"

You really lucked out, didn't you

Jaywalk & joyride through a waltz of a world; police politely wave you through with hungry fists unfurled
You're pretty sure your position was earned through talent & toil, but the salty sweat of your acquaintances doesn't seem to
yield the spoils
When nothing's ever what it seems, nothing means just what it means & you've pined so long at the margins from your perch
right in between
But you've got everything except their sympathy, that symphony of bended knees

No love lost now, own the luck you've got

Your obit, Mr. Fortune, was a glowing life's review—all things uncouth or askew omitted just for you

CREDITS
Written, performed, recorded, produced, & mixed by Dustin H. Currier (at The Keep, Coach House, Via Cisterna Tonda & Music Zone) except where otherwise noted

Add'l drums, percussion - Andrew Quinlan
Trumpet - Ben Grigg
Saxophones - Curtis Oren
Trombone - Logan Bloom
Voice - Jean Cochrane, Ash Stewack, Kortland Hetzel

Add'l drums, bass & percussion recorded by Luke Tweedy @ Flat Black Studios
Brass recorded by Ben Grigg @ Radon Ranch

Mastered by Brok Mende @ Friends of Friends Recording

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