The Usual Things - Beginner’s Luck Lyrics

With the shitty job and fifty bucks
You try to stretch while you get stuck
It's all you've got to last you the week
Your whole life is a losing streak

Trade school may have worked for our dads
But they can't possibly understand
That minimum wage can't keep a house
Empty hearts and bank accounts

You wanna wake up in her arms again
You'd give anything to be sixteen again
Driving in your sister's car
Blown curfews and seedy bars

Around 22 the well ran dry
Your confidence it waved goodbye
And you couldn't make a life on beginner's luck

So every day's the same
Put your head down, don't complain
Get home to put your daughter down
Ride your bike back across the town

You're lucky to be late when you start again
You don't seem to remember when
You felt the love in your daughter's touch
The love that meant so much

You wanna wake up in her arms again
You'd give anything to be sixteen again
Driving in your sister's car
Blown curfews and seedy bars

Around 22 the well ran dry
The confidence it waved goodbye
And you couldn't make a life on beginner's luck

And all your friends are making plans
You're just trying to be a man
The only way that we'd survive
Is stumblin' while half alive

You wanna wake up in her arms again
You'd give anything to be sixteen again
Driving in your sister's car
Blown curfews and seedy bars

Around 22 the well ran dry
The confidence it waved goodbye
And you couldn't make a life on beginner's luck

Beginner's luck