Everything Happens to Me
Jinxed Fate: Embracing Life's Twists
Lyrics
Black cats creep across my path
Experiencing bad luck symbolized by black cats crossing the path.
Until I'm almost mad
Feeling on the edge of insanity due to persistent misfortune.
I must have 'roused the devil's wrath
Suggesting a connection between personal actions and attracting negativity or the devil's displeasure.
Cause all my luck is bad
Attributing bad luck to awakening the devil's anger.
I make a date for golf and you can bet your life it rains
Facing a streak of bad luck, even when making plans such as scheduling a golf game.
I try to give a party and the guy upstairs complains
Encountering obstacles and complaints when attempting to celebrate.
I guess I'll go through life
Contemplating a life marked by illness and missed opportunities.
Just catchin' colds and missin' trains
Summarizing life as a series of catching colds and missing trains.
Everything happens to me
Expressing a resigned acceptance that everything negative happens to the speaker.
I never miss a thing
Claiming an acute awareness and experience of everything that goes wrong.
I've had the measles and the mumps
Listing past illnesses (measles and mumps) as part of the speaker's unfortunate experiences.
And every time I play an ace
Highlighting the speaker's difficulty in winning at cards, with the partner always having a better hand.
My partner always trumps
Indicating a pattern of making mistakes without careful consideration.
Guess I'm just a fool who never looks before he jumps
Admitting to being a foolish individual who acts impulsively without thinking ahead.
Everything happens to me
Reiterating the theme that everything, including misfortune, happens to the speaker.
At first my heart thought you could break this jinx for me
Initially hopeful that love could break the streak of bad luck but realizing it didn't.
That love would turn the trick to end despair
Believing that love could bring an end to despair and misfortune.
But know I just can't fool this head that thinks for me
Admitting that the speaker cannot deceive their own rational thinking despite initial hope in love.
I've mortgaged all my castles in the air
Metaphorically referencing the loss of dreams and aspirations by mortgaging castles in the air.
I've telegraphed and phoned
Having tried to communicate through various means like telegraph and phone.
I send an "Airmail Special" too
Referencing a specific jazz tune ("Airmail Special") as an attempt to reach out.
Your answer was "Goodbye"
Receiving a goodbye response, suggesting the end of a relationship.
And there was even postage due
Highlighting the rejection with the additional sting of having to pay for the message's delivery.
I fell in love just once
Recalling a singular experience of falling in love, implying it was a rare occurrence.
And then it had to be with you
Emphasizing that the one time the speaker fell in love, it was with the person addressed.
Everything happens to me
Concluding with the repetition of the theme that everything happens to the speaker.
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