| On a dark night in a lost hour
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| In a town built from neon and chrome
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| Where Las Vegas seeks the desert
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| In an old broken down casino
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| There the gambler slapped his money down
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| Dirty dollars one hundred or more
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| Placed his last bet on a poker game
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| Crossed his heart for the winning score
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| But the players at the table
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| Two men of the phantom creed
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| Seemed to play with sombre purpose
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| Than a reason and pure greed
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| And the gambler felt his back freeze
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| And fear brushed his ageing brow
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| For he’d seen those men before in his dreams
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| Here they sat before him now
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| And the one smoothed back his black hair
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| With a comb slicked by brylcream and grease
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| Flipped the cards with a flippancy
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| Of a wily and slippery ease
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| With his sharp suit shade of lilac
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| On a shuffle he made the cards sing
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| Gold studs and menthol cigarettes
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| Rubies set in a skull ring
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| And the other of the clergy
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| With a colour and robe of pale ivory
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| Silver grey at the temples
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| And a smile that was stern and was kindly
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| Jack of hearts lead, wait for aces
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| Became faces of family and friends
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| Until the deck showed him a picture
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| Of his life from beginning to end
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| Reverend Life he flipped an ace
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| And the gambler felt blood in his heart
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| For he knew this was the game of games
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| He would need all the Reverend’s heart
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| Anger, lust and gluttony
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| The gambler seems hit hard
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| Each failure and each feature
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| Mapped out in the slippery cards
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| Greasy Mr.D. |
| flashed a winning grin
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| And stood facing Reverend Life
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| The Reverend paled as he saw the score
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| The gambler felt pain as a knife
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| His troubles, tribulations
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| Revelations and regrets
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| A wife, a child, a fight to trial
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| Turned by the hand of death
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| And the gambler saw his hand stained
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| With the blood of his family ties
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| And with the yellow smile of Mr. D
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| In his mind he crumples and dies
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| And these two great men from different worlds
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| Faced each other and shook of hands
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| The reverend shrugged «ah well next time»
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| And departed for heaven’s land
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| And the flames leapt and the soul screamed
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| And the cards scattered round the room
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| And life is always a gamble
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| A game from the cradle to tomb
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| And the flames leapt and the soul screamed
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| And the cards scattered round the room
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| And life is always a gamble
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| A game from the cradle to tomb
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| And the flames leapt and the soul screamed
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| And the cards scattered round the room
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| And life is always a gamble
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| A game from the cradle to tomb |