Roulette

"Roulette"

By Bruce Springsteen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9mzVZiI6xo

We left the toys out in the yard/
I took my wife and kids and left my home unguarded/
We packed what we could into the car/
No one here knows how it started.

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

Roulette, that's the name/
Roulette, that's the game now/
Roulette, I don't know what they're sayin'/
Roulette, everybody's playin'.

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've got a house full of things that I can't touch/
Well all those things won't do me much good now
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

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.

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.

I tried to find my way out to somewhere where I thought it'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 want to 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 want to help me, but with the stuff they keep on sayin'/
I think those guys just wanna keep on playin'...

Roulette, with my life

Roulette, with my kids and my wife

Roulette, the bullet's spinnin' in the chamber

Roulette, who's the unlucky stranger

Roulette, surprise, you're dead

Roulette, the gun's to your head

Roulette, the bullet's spinning in the chamber

Roulette, pull the trigger, feel the click


No further danger.

No further danger...