High Stakes & Dangerous Men

Skulking in the mean streets whispering in the halls
Redlight bandits on the corner give no quarter calls
Infectious garbage fills the streets and in their eyes you know
A thin blue line bends and breaks stop the overflow

* fan the flames of the city's heat
In dark corners that you never seen
Desperation when the trouble flares
/alarm guns ring/ ["well i'm gonna scream"] running scared

And you're long gone, down in this hell
Long gone down in this hell
So baby won't you hold me tight
Let your softness fill my night
We've got a dream don't let it slip away
In your eyes i can see the fear
This town never sheds a tear
We're gonna be /out someday/walking away

People looking for the holy one,
Some kind of hero or a prophet to come
Visionaries dance the night away

There's no tomorrow living for today
But you're long gone down in this hell
Long gone down in this hell

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I saw the stars come out tonight so lonely and immune
Summer rain kissed the streets that bleed like /open wounds/ ["old balloons"]
Patrol cars sweep the avenues down on forty eighth
While faces in dark doorways wait to arouse the hate

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** baby better walk away
Baby better walk away
We'll be busting out someday

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Daylight's rising across the plains
This rig is streaking like a hellbound train
I smuggle whiskey, i smuggle gin
Where there's a need well i just truck on in

I'm a gambling man, son of a gun
I'll take the risks now baby i'll make the run
Wanna get home now, back in the saddle
Ain't gonna drive this kinda grade a cattle

Daylight's rising across the plains
This rig is streaking like a hellbound train
Albuquerque now, new mexico
This .???.. one night show, yeah


* (and i'm) one step closer to the devil
One step further from the law
Lord i guess i'm just on borrowed time
But i'm one step closer to the
One step closer to the borderline

18 hours on this one long shift
Wanna hear the sweet sound of my tailgate lift
Lord i'm dying out on this road
Wanna see my baby, help me unload

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Rolling stock now, shifting steel
Got a woman with a touch to heal
Diesel, dust and my wheels are humming
So close to home, can you feel me coming

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To the borderline...
To the borderline

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To the borderline...
To the borderline...

Wheels are rollin' down on home

Well she struck like lightning
Sent the blood rushing to my head
And she was so exciting
I took a walk i didn't have to be led

* and i had my highlights, i had it all
I thought that life was my crystal ball
Now there's a highway running
She drove a truck right through my life

** i jumped in to the burnin' fire
Led by lust and my desire
I jumped in to the burnin' fire
Led by lust my desire

Well i was born a preacher
Fire and brimstone i'm a baptist man
She was god's own creature
What she didn't know you wouldn't understand now

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Well she skipped across the floor
And she looked so fine
With her hair flowing back
I thought she was mine
I dreamed on in my own head
Now lord i wish i was dead

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I jumped in, i jumped in
To the burnin' fire
And you don't win
I jumped in, i jumped in
To the burnin' fire
And you don't win

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No use in pretending, it's not been and gone
There's no defending, this feeling's all too strong
Every time and every place, i see magic in your eyes
I wanna see you feel you hold you tight
Till hell ices over i'll be waiting tonight

Oh, she's the one
I was stripped right down now yeah
She had me reeling
Oh baby, she's the one
And nothing feels better
And i know now she's the only one

Dealing with emotions we can uncreate
Being held under, oh how you infatuate
Every step and every move i see it in your eyes
I wanna see you feel you hold you tight
Till hell ices over i'll be waiting tonight

Oh, baby, she's the one
I was cut right down now
Oh, she left me reeling
Oh baby, she's the one
Nothing felt better
And i can't forget her she's the only one
Only one

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* oh, she's the one
I was stripped right down now yeah
She left me reeling
Oh baby, she's the one
And nothing felt better
And i can't forget her she's the only one
Only one

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Only one....she's the one...

Is she waiting now
Do you think she really really cares
Is she standing and looking with her hope
Her fingers through her hair

Looking at the future you and me baby
Life lately don't seem like wonderland
Nothing here nothing coming in
Money goes like a wino's gin
Slips through my hands

* (and) i know it ain't easy
I get drunk like a fool
There's a promise i made you darling now
Just one golden rule

** hold on to this love
'cos i don't want to lose you
Hold on to this love
'cos i don't want to lose you

When the lights go down
Do you think she really really cares
As she's lying there with her arms around you
A strange affair

Looking at the lights on lakeshore drive
In the windy city now
Will our love stay alive
Last night i held you in my arms
You looked and said "baby, we will survive"

And i know it ain't easy
'cos life gets so cruel
And there's a promise i made you darling now
Just one golden rule

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Where you gonna go, who you gonna run to
Who you gonna see tonight babe
What you gonna wear, who you gonna know
Who you gonna see tonight my baby
From the back of a one dollar down
Did you ever think i wouldn't be around
This ain't a stand off ain't no fight
But where you gonna be sleeping tonight?

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A greyhound bus weaves its way across town
I'm sitting here thinking
Never thought i could be brought down
And low yes i'm sinking

* bet on a wild one, i got stitched
Caught up in a fight
I was dreaming, dreaming, oh i saw you last night
(i got a) 4 by 8 on riker's yard
8 to 15 i'm doin' hard
For you and your lover
Shot through the head
Air conditioning lead

The honeymoon was over
With the telephone bill
Yes you've been tumbled
With your fingers in the till
The chelsea hotel with a private line
Now it's payback time

** sha la la la i can't let you go
It's not over till it's over, no
Sha la la la i can't set you free
Oh no can't let go
'cause i put you right above
Love deadly love
Love deadly love

Through the shadows of my backyard
Now brother i'm leaving a calling card
This mission tonight
Feels so right mr. d.o.a.
Some they can take it and some lie down
Some just wear that thorny crown
Like a halo round the head
Oh now you're better off dead

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There's a visit and one phone call
And sometimes a stroll
If i'm straight in five years
Maybe remission or parole

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Five card stud that's your game
I'll cut stack and lose it's all the same
You could never say no never say no no no no

Love deadly love, love deadly love
Love deadly love, love deadly love
Love deadly love, love deadly love

Quit my job at the 7-11
3-d vision and a glance of heaven
Picked up my six string began to play
Just one touch and it started to say

All your dreams will come true
Lovely mansion with a pool so blue
A red ferrari and a model for a wife
Oh yes it looks i was born for the good life

* running up the highway looking for something
Looking for something i can't see
Running up the highway looking for something
Looking for something i can't see

A thousand motels waiting to trash
Tv dinners, well i love that bash
And if you eddie, just say hi
This party's open so drop on by

All your dreams will come true
A sunny haven from the inland revenue
Hot nights in paris a chance to dance
Since i signed up i've been living in a trance

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I'm feeling sick like dawn of the dead
I've got marines marching through my head
John-boy walton, he's so nice
So come in this must be paradise

All your dreams will come true
That lovely mansion with its pool so blue
A red ferrari and a model for a wife
Oh yes it looks i was born for the good life

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