Jane Voss
Lyrics • No Hard Luck Kid

No Hard Luck Kid

If I can do somethin’ about the situation
If I can do anything to help myself
If it’s true I hold the key to my own liberation, well,
I ain’t gonna sit on the shelf

CHORUS: And I ain’t gonna be no hard luck kid no more,

Ever since I was a kid, I been put in my place,
I been cut down to size, I been slapped in the face,
I been told I’m better off not to reach for the sky --
But there’s no way that I won’t try

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Well, I heard it so often, expectations were small;
I could only go so far before I must fall;
so I learned the narrow limits of possibility --
but now there ain’t no limit to me!

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I been had, I been sad, I been mad,
I been defeated,
I been shut out, shot down,
And badly mistreated;
I’ve been used and abused,
Almost beaten to the ground;
I was lost, but now I am found.
And I ain’t gonna be no hard luck kid no more.

You say the die has been cast, ah, but I’m shedding that weight,
And the shackles of the past no longer bind my fate.
I may look like I’m down, but I’m takin’ off from where I land,
And I’ll rise where I’ve fallen, and I’ll sing where I stand

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