Redgum - When Your Luck Ran Out lyrics

City streets are poison For a country girl like you Smoke filled rooms and petrol fumes Hanging around with the desperate crew Blinded by the bright lights Sweet seduction steals your will You fell too quick for that three card trick Now they're coming around to collect their bills But there was nobody there When your luck ran out No-one who cared No-one there to carry you through The darkness and despair And your dope scene friends They picked you up And tossed you down again They left you lying there When your luck ran out Too far gone to care Country town can't hold you When you've seen the world out there They shut up shop at eight o'clock And you want to break out but there's nowhere The town hall clock strikes midnight And you're waiting for the train You leave your home and all your friends And don't come back again Smokey haze sets the stage For a one-act tragedy Junkie's binge and an old syringe Snow-white misery The stagnant gloom of a rented room Sees you limp against the wall You pushed your luck a bit too much And missed your curtain call