Key: D minor
Verse 1
Am
E
We
Am
G
F
Em
Am
G
F
Em
Am
G
F
left the toys out in the yard
I took my wife and kids and
Em
left my home unguarded
Am
We packed what
G
F
we could into the car
Em
No one here knows how it started
Am
Suddenly everything was
just so out of control
Em
Now I want some answers,
mister, I need to know
F
I hear all the talk but I don't
know what you're sayin'
But I think I got a good idea of the
Verse 2
game that you're playin'
G
Am
Roulette, that's the name
G
F
Roulette, that's the game now
G
Am
Roulette, I don't know what
they're sayin'
G
F
Roulette, everybody's playin'
C
G
Verse 3
Am
Em
I grew up here on this street
C
Em
Where nothin' moves,
G
F
just a strange breeze
In a town full of worthless
G
Am
memories
G
There's a shadow in my backyard
F
I've got a house full of things
that I can't touch
Well all those things won't
Em
do me much good now
Am
I was a fireman out at
Riker's, I did my job
Em
Mister, I've been cheated,
I feel like I've been robbed
F
I'm the big expendable,
my life's just canceled null and void
Well what you gonna do about
Verse 4
your new boy
G
Am
Roulette, you're playin'
with my life
G
F
Roulette, with my kids and my wife
G
Roulette,
Am
every day the stakes get bigger
G
F
C
G
Roulette, a different finger on the trigger
Em
Interlude 1
Bm
D
Am
C
D
Dm
D
Am
G
Am
Verse 5
Am
Down by the river that talks
F
The night speaks in searchlights
Am
And shortwave radios squawk
G
The police patrol the streets
F
But I've left behind the man
I used to be
Everything he believed and
C
Em
all that belonged to me
Am
I tried to find my way out to somewhere
E
where I thought it'd be safe
Em
They stopped me at the roadblock they
F
put up on the interstate
They put me in detention but I
broke loose and then I ran
Dm
They said they want to ask me a few
F
questions but I think they had other plans
Now I don't know who to trust and I
don't know what I can believe
E
They say they want to help me but
with the stuff they keep on sayin'
I think those guys just want
Verse 6
to keep on playin'
G
Am
Roulette, with my life
G
F
Roulette, with my kids and my wife
G
Am
Roulette, the bullet's in
the chamber
G
Roulette, who's the un
F
lucky stranger
G
Am
Roulette, surprise, you're dead
G
F
Roulette, the gun's to your head
G
Am
Roulette, the bullet's spinning
in the chamber
G
F
Roulette, pull the trigger, feel the click
C
G
No further danger
Outro 1
G
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