Roulette

[Verse 1]

We left the toys out in the yard

I took my wife and kids and I left my home unguarded

We packed what we could into the car

No one here knows how it started

[Pre-Chorus]

But suddenly everything was just so out of control

Now I want some answers, mister, I need to know

I hear all the talk, but I don't know what you're sayin'

I think I got a good idea of the game that you're playin'

[Chorus]

Roulette, that's the name

Roulette, that's the game now

Roulette, I don't believe what they're sayin'

Roulette, everybody's playin'

[Verse 2]

I grew up here on this street

Where nothin' moves, just a strange breeze

In a town full of worthless memories

There's a shadow in my backyard

I got a house full of things that I can't touch

Well, all those things, they won't do me much good now

[Pre-Chorus]

I was a fireman out at Riker's, I did my job

Mister, I've been cheated, I feel like I've been robbed

I'm the big expendable, my life's just canceled, null and void

Well, what you gonna do about your new boy?

[Chorus]

Roulette, you're playin' with my life

Roulette, with my kids and my wife

Roulette, every day the stakes get bigger

Roulette, a different finger on the trigger

[Verse 3]

Down by the river that talks

The night speaks in searchlights

And shortwave radios squawk

The police patrol the streets

But I've left behind the man I used to be

Everything he believed and all that belonged to me

[Pre-Chorus]

I tried to find my way out to somewhere where I thought I'd be safe

They stopped me at the roadblock they put up on the interstate

They put me in detention, but I broke loose and then I ran

They said they just wanna ask me a few 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

They say they wanna help me but with the stuff they keep on sayin'

I think those guys just wanna keep on playin'

[Chorus]

Roulette, with my life

Roulette, with my kids and my wife

Roulette, the bullet's in the chamber

Roulette, who's the unlucky stranger?

Roulette, surprise, you're dead

Roulette, the gun's to your head

Roulette, bullet's spinning in the chamber

Roulette, pull the trigger, feel the click

No further danger