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