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Bad Luck

by West Texas Exiles

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"The idea for Bad Luck came from a prompt I received from some friends in a songwriting email thread mid October 2020. Jokingly I mentioned how there are too many Christmas albums and not enough Halloween albums. In an attempt to remedy that, the lyrics and melody began as a tongue-in-cheek, clunky, carnival-esque song that was never meant to see the light of day. As I sat with the nearly discarded idea few days, personifying the idea of “bad luck” began to pull genuine excitement. I chased that down for a few hours and what came was pretty much what you hear on the song.
As the song became more of a serious endeavor, I knew the recording and production had to match the unsettling nature of the lyrics. Dynamic, tender, slow builds of clean vocals and unaltered instruments suddenly exploding with overdriven guitars, distorted vocals, and thunderous drums seemed to be the best musical vessel for which to deliver the sinister lyrics."

Marco Gutierrez

lyrics

My name is bad luck
Not the kind you have after a bad day
Not the kind that you can wash away
But I’m real as a switchblade

My name is bad luck
And I’ll follow you around like a black dog
Like shadows moving in the thick fog
Ready or not, I’m here

Don’t beg for mercy
Don’t say a prayer
Throw out your crosses because
Nobody’s there
You won’t see me coming
Until I’ve arrived
The worst kind of torture
keeps you alive

My name is bad luck
And I don’t have a scythe or wear a black cloak
I’m not a murder of crows or a black goat
But you can guarantee I’m around

My name is bad luck
And you know someone who’s met me
Take a look in their eyes, it’s just a Dead Sea
Have you ever seen somebody slowly drown?

Don’t beg for mercy
Don’t say a prayer
Throw out your crosses because
Nobody’s there
You won’t see me coming
Until I’ve arrived
The worst kind of torture
Keeps you alive

My names bad luck
My names bad luck
My names bad luck
Oh no, I’m coming for you

My name is bad luck
I’m the wraith outside on the high wire
I’m the match falling on your funeral pyre
Burn your best days at the stake

Don’t beg for mercy
Don’t say a prayer
Throw out your crosses
Oh no, I’m already here
You won’t see me coming
Until I’ve arrived
The best kind of torture
Keeps you alive
My name is bad luck

credits

released June 29, 2023
Produced by Michael Ingber, Eric Harrison, and Marco Gutierrez
Recorded by Michael Ingber, Eric Harrison, and Marco Gutierrez
Mixed by Michael Ingber at Studio 601 in Austin, Tx

West Texas Exiles are
Marco Gutierrez
Daniel Davis
Trinidad Leal
Eric Harrison
Colin Gilmore

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Y'all-ternative Americana out of Austin, Tx

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