Lucky Lyrics - Fish

He met the world as a Dalkeith boy 

Raised from a shaft at Monktonhall 

In a well oiled cage that locked away his dreams 

An '85 veteran face from the gallery 

A ghost from the civil war in the family 

He stood his ground on the picket line 

'Til all that he was left with were his father's cough 

From his mother's eyes 

That would hold a tear for the very first time 

When the government, they took his job away 

Now fist in hand you stand in line 

Declare his name and mark his time 

To some the only proof that they're alive 

He could have been you 

He could have been me 

He could have been anybody 

But he was born lucky 

He could have been you 

He could have been me 

He could have been anybody 

But he was born lucky, lucky 

He made his first down payment 

On a sharp Italian suit 

He sewed razor blades into the lapels 

See him sweating on the dance floor 

Cool dust oozing out of every pore 

A hard man with a hard life 

That's a story that he'll tell you 

Down at Easter Road till his throat is raw 

On a Saturday, he knows the score 

Till the whistle blows and the tempers 

With their colors fade away 

He could have been you 

He could have been me 

He could have been anybody 

But he was born lucky 

He could have been you 

He could have been me 

He could have been anybody 

But he was born lucky, lucky 

On the helipads at Aberdeen 

By the platforms, drilling oil rich seas 

Where the trawlers are getting fewer every year 

By the furnaces at Ravenscraig 

By the padlocks holding John Brown's gates 

In the desert, in the fields of South Armagh 

Where the poppies grow behind the Hampden roar 

Behind the drums in Genoa 

On the deck that rides a South Atlantic swell 

Born to fight out of the tightest corner 

You can bet on him with the odds against you 

They'll not put him down no matter how they try 

Oh, he could have been you 

He could have been me 

He could have been anybody 

But he was born lucky 

He could have been you 

He could have been me 

He could have been anybody 

But he was born lucky 

He could have been you 

He could have been me 

He could have been anybody 

But he was born lucky 

He could have been you 

He could have been me 

He could have been anybody 

But he was born lucky, lucky 

He could have been you 

He could have been me 

He could have been anybody 

But he was born lucky 

He could have been you 

He could have been me 

He could have been, he could have been 

He could have been lucky 

He could have been lucky, lucky 

He could have been you 

He could have been me 

He could have been lucky 

He could have been lucky