Bad Luck chords by Neko Case

Chords with lyrics

Chorus:
D MajorD
Woke a dog from a running dream And that's bad luck (Bad luck)
E minorEm
Ate a black fly in the cream And that's bad luck (Bad, bad luck)
D MajorD
Chipped my tooth on an engagement ring And that's bad luck (Bad luck)
E minorEm
Could have stopped any one of these things But that would have been
D MajorD
bad luck

Verse 1:
D MajorD
Are you tired of things going right?
F# minorF#m
Things going wrong?
A augmentedA
Tired of trying to make everyone happy?
D MajorD
Too tired to sing your own songs

Verse 2:
D MajorD
Do you wish you could stop everything
F# minorF#m
And take back your love?
A augmentedA
Say you're sorry that you gave it up so easy
D MajorD
And cry like you're trying to be born?

Chorus:
D MajorD
Woke a dog from a running dream And that's bad luck (Bad luck)
E minorEm
Ate a black fly in the cream And that's bad luck (Bad, bad luck)
D MajorD
Chipped my tooth on an engagement ring And that's bad luck (Bad luck)
E minorEm
Could have stopped any one of these things But that would have been
D MajorD
bad luck

Bridge:
D MajorD
So I died and went to work
So I died and went to work
B minorBm
It's not as bad as I thought it would be
     D MajorD
But it's still pretty bad luck
B minorBm
It's not as bad as I thought it would be
     D MajorD
But it's still pretty bad luck

Chorus:
D MajorD
Woke a dog from a running dream And that's bad luck (Bad luck)
E minorEm
Ate a black fly in the cream And that's bad luck (Bad, bad luck)
D MajorD
Chipped my tooth on an engagement ring And that's bad luck (Bad luck)
E minorEm
Could have stopped any one of these things But that would have been
D MajorD
bad luck

Verse 3:
D MajorD            A augmentedA
And love, the most contrary asset of them all
A augmentedA
Dragging in on nature's coattails
A augmentedA
Acting like it wrote the moon
A augmentedA
Trying to pass riddles as poetry
A augmentedA          D MajorD
Embargo is love's waiting room

Verse 4:
D MajorD
And meantime
        A augmentedA
Right here in human time
F# minorF#m
My heart could break for a one-legged seagull
   B minorBm      Bm/ABm/A    Gmaj7Gmaj7        D MajorD
And still afford nothing to you (That's bad luck)

Verse 5:
D MajorD
Are you tired of things going right?
F# minorF#m
Things going wrong?
A augmentedA
Tired of trying to make everyone happy?
D MajorD
Too tired to sing your own songs

Chorus:
D MajorD
Woke a dog from a running dream And that's bad luck (Bad luck)
E minorEm
Ate a black fly in the cream And that's bad luck (Bad, bad luck)
D MajorD
Chipped my tooth on an engagement ring And that's bad luck (Bad luck)
E minorEm
Could have stopped any one of these things But that would have been
D MajorD
bad luck

Outro:
D MajorD
So I died and went to work
D MajorD
So I died and went to work
D MajorD
So I died and went to work
D MajorD
So I died and went to work