(Drums only)

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Dm               C                Bb                 A

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Dm               C                Bb                 A       Dm

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                                                               We left...

                            C    Bb

We left the toys out in the yard

                            A                      Dm

I took my wife and kids and left my home unguarded

                                 C   Bb

We packed what we could into the car

                  A              Dm

No one here knows how it started



Suddenly everything was just so out of control

      Am

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

  Bb

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'



C             Dm

Roulette, that's the name

C             Bb

Roulette, that's the game now

C                 Dm

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

C             Bb                 | F C | Dm

Roulette, and everybody's playin'



                       C                                  Bb

I grew up here on this street where nothin' moves, just a strange breeze

                   A                Dm

In a town full of worthless memories

                           C

There's a shadow in my backyard

           Bb

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

                               A

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

Dm

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

Am

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

Bb

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



But what are you gonna do about your new boy

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C             Dm

Roulette, you're playin' with my life

C              Bb

Roulette, with my children and my wife

C                Dm

Roulette, every day the stakes get bigger

C              Bb                          | F C |

Roulette, a different finger on the trigger



Am             Em             G                 D              F

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G                 Dm                C

-15-----|--------|-13--12-|--------|-----------|

-----15-|-13--12-|--------|-15--13-|-13>15-----|

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Dm                     C           Bb

Down by the river that talks the night speaks in searchlights

     A                     Dm

And shortwave radios squawk,

                        C

The police patrol the streets

          Bb

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

                              A

Everything he believed in and all that belonged to me

Dm

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

      Am

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

  Bb

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

  Gm                                                                          Bb

They said they want to ask me a few questions but I think they had other plans

                                                                 A4

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'





C           Dm

Roulette, with my life

C           Bb

Roulette, with my kids and my wife

C               Dm

Roulette, the bullet's in the chamber

C                Bb

Roulette, who's the unlucky stranger

C              Dm

Roulette, surprise, you're dead

C              Bb

Roulette, the gun's to your head

C                      Dm

Roulette, the bullet's spinning in the chamber

C                   Bb

Roulette, pull the trigger, feel the click

F            C

No further danger





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