[Chorus]

Woke a dog from a running dream

And that's bad luck (Bad luck)

Ate a black fly in the cream

And that's bad luck (Bad, bad luck)

Chipped my tooth on an engagement ring

And that's bad luck (Bad luck)

Could have stopped any one of these things

But that would have been bad luck

[Verse 1]

Are you tired of things going right?

Things going wrong?

Tired of trying to make everyone happy?

Too tired to sing your own songs

[Verse 2]

Do you wish you could stop everything

And take back your love?

Say you're sorry that you gave it up so easy

And cry like you're trying to be born?

[Chorus]

Woke a dog from a running dream

And that's bad luck (Bad luck)

Ate a black fly in the cream

And that's bad luck (Bad, bad luck)

Chipped my tooth on an engagement ring

And that's bad luck (Bad luck)

Could have stopped any one of these things

But that would have been bad luck

[Bridge]

So I died and went to work

So I died and went to work

It's not as bad as I thought it would be

But it's still pretty bad luck

It's not as bad as I thought it would be

But it's still pretty bad luck

[Chorus]

I woke a dog from a running dream

And that's bad luck (Bad luck)

I ate a black fly in the cream

And that's bad luck (Bad, bad luck)

Chipped my tooth on an engagement ring

And that's bad luck (Bad luck)

Could have stopped any one of these things

But that would have been bad luck

[Verse 3]

And love, the most contrary asset of them all

Dragging in on nature's coattails

Acting like it wrote the moon

Trying to pass riddles as poetry

Embargo is love's waiting room

[Verse 4]

And meantime

Right here in human time

My heart could break for a one-legged seagull

And still afford nothing to you (That's bad luck)

[Verse 5]

Are you tired of things going right?

Things going wrong?

Tired of trying to make everyone happy?

Too tired to sing your own songs

[Chorus]

Woke a dog from a running dream

And that's bad luck (Bad luck)

Ate a black fly in the cream

And that's bad luck (Bad, bad luck)

Chipped my tooth on an engagement ring

And that's bad luck (Bad luck)

Could have stopped any one of these things

But that would have been bad luck

[Outro]

So I died and went to work

So I died and went to work

So I died and went to work

So I died and went to work