My luck has gone ( with Ray Brookes)

[DarrenG / The Devil's Toupee]

I sent this song to ray a couple of years ago, (music and lyrics) to see if he would do vocals on it. He went one better and recorded his own arrangement with music, vocals and production, which sound amazing as you would expect from Ray.  Thanks again Ray Thanks for listening.


Lyrics
MY LUCK HAS GONE


I used to be happy once,
A long long time ago,
Good times would always last,
The bad times never showed

But now they're just memories
that play around in my mind
mistakes i've made and now i see
that my eyes, must have been blind

CHORUS

And now my luck has gone, it's drifted all away
And Now my luck has gone, i guess it couldn't stay

Those days are gone now,
but i can see them still
when time and youth were on my side

The sun was shining
that day i took your hand
You took my heart and made it come alive

CHORUS

And now my luck has gone, it's drifted all away
And Now my luck has gone, i guess it couldn't stay

And now my luck has gone, it's drifted all away
And where my luck has gone, i guess i couldn't say.

All my luck has gone
(All my luck has gone, my luck has gone)
All my luck has gone
(All my luck has gone, my luck has gone)

[launched]

Really enjoyed, the chords and vocal harmonies are infectious. Sounds like a finger picked solo, and fab piano playing. You guys put together something well worth waiting for!

[Mike_S]

Thoroughly enjoyable listen, great song Darren and Ray has indeed done you very proud. Very catchy number and I love the piano part in this... got a touch of Bruce Hornsby to me. Lovely.

Mike

[TPB]

Super arraignment with great vocals can not ask for more great collab bravo
Tim

[maxit]

wow, what a result! wonderful song, wonderful arrangement and production - and its full of amazing things to hear, that yes, bruce hornby piano, for example! Great collab!

[StephenM]

brilliance....cosmic goodness....aurally mesmerizing....as grand as the continent of Australia itself...beautiful stuff...

Bruce Hornsby on the range....er... meets toto musicians for colab...meets Chistopher Cross...

super...love everything...in there...the words, the singing, the guitars the keyboards...

if this were a sandwich it's a fluffernutter  (that was something special growing up...peanut butter and marshmallow fluff spread )....

[tonyc]

fantastic collab , great songwriting darren and love the chords , and superb work from ray as always , man you sure no how to play ray brilliant stuff ,.....cheers tony cee

[Farrell Jackson]

A super song Darren and Ray! Those vocals/harmonies/lyrics are to die for. The perfect song!

Farrell

[Ferryman_1957]

Great song Darren, and Ray's arrangement really makes it. Melodic, great lyrics and superb instrumentation. Love the break down and solo at around 2 minutes. Really professional production, this has massive hit written all over it! Very classy indeed gents, well done.

[Kenneth]

Darren, this is a gorgeous song. Wonderful writing there.
Ray, just beautiful. The harmony vocals ... warm sound, , solos.. it's a comfort song despite the chorus lyrics.
Really good stuff guys.