depois de uma atribulada ligação com tom waits no final dos anos setenta, rickie lee jones gravou o seu disco de estreia e tornou-se, da noite para o dia, alguém com visibilidade. durante algum tempo eram o casal de que se falava mas a fama, o álcool e as drogas (não sei por que ordem) separaram-nos. logo a seguir waits conheceu e casou com kathleen brennan (“ela salvou-me da morte”) e rickie lee afundou-se numa dependência que parecia sem retorno... já recuperada, voltou a gravar discos nos anos oitenta e escreveu esta canção, um autobiográfico lamento tardio por esse romance falhado.

Oh, he's a lucky guy


Oh, he's a lucky guy


He doesn't worry about me


When I'm gone


He goes to sleep at night


He don't turn off the light


And wonder how to find me


Or if I'm alone

Oh, he's a lucky guy


I wish I was like him


Cuz when he talks about me


He don't look this way


He's a lucky guy

He used to walk with me


He used to talk to me


See, we have these secrets


That no one else could hear


Well, he's not the only one


No, no not the only one


But what happens to them?

Do they matter?


Do they disappear


Into a lonely girl?


Now I'm a lonely girl


Cuz I want somebody with me in the world


Oh, he's a lucky guy

Fortune walks right in the door


And here I am


Just like before

Well, I'm not gonna turn around


I'm not his pretty clown


I'm not the one caught


Like he thought


He was the last one I had there


Cuz I did a foolish thing


A real, real stupid thing

I told him I love him


And I want him there


When I knew he wouldn't come

And I knew he didn't care


And I'll cry awhile


I'll cry awhile


But when I wake up


Tomorrow is a new day


I'm a lucky guy


Hey, I'm a lucky guy


Real, real lucky guy


Hey, I'm a lucky guy