It's just luck

from Obviously, the album by optimismo

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"Every day people get in little boats and head out on a journey is just that is just a flirtation w ith mortality"
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EMPATHY MUST WIN!
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"Buy" for free, but consider donating to Leeds Asylum Seekers’ Support Network, especially if you think track 8 "It's Just Luck" is relevant.
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lyrics

Everyone’s together
But
Everyone
Doesn’t
Appreciate that
It’s all down to luck

The luck of your birth
The luck of your look
The luck of your country
The luck of the weather
The luck of the draw
It’s luck, its luck
It’s nothing you’ve done

That doesn’t reflect
The lucky country you live in
Where
People don’t just die of
Drowning
Or being beaten
Or having nothing to eat
Or being bombed
Rounded up and
Put away
Forever
Tortured
Forever

It’s just luck
And I’ve had a lot
As they say
“worse things happen at sea”
But they will never happen to me
No
They won’t ever happen to me
They won’t ever happen, happen to me
They will ever happen, happen to me

It’s just luck
It’s just luck
Where you happen to be begging
Or living like the womb
That you were grown in
Or the water that came out the tap
Or the place that you could crap
The food that was there to eat

And
There weren’t people on the street
With a gun
There weren’t people on the street
Rounding you up
And your friends
And your friends
And your children
And the babies
Pushing them out to sea

“Fortunately” sounds like luck to me

I’ve had a lot of luck
And so, I'm guessing, have most of you
Have had a lot of luck too

You drink the water
You can shit
And it not comes back in your food
You can go
And get help
If you’re feeling loaded
With a virus

It’s just luck
Celebrate it
Just luck
Go celebrate it
Its luck
Worse things happen at sea…
Just look

Every day
People get in little boats
And head out
On a journey is just
That is just a flirtation
With mortality
And some of them are children
As you’ve seen

Maybe it’ll all get better
Democracy will work
Maybe it’ll all get better
Empathy must win

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from Obviously, the album, released December 1, 2020

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