The Gambler
Marc Almond

On a dark night in a lost hour
In a town built from neon and chrome
Where las vegas seeks the desert
In an old broken down casino
There the gambler slapped his money down
Dirty dollars one hundred or more
Placed his last bet on a poker game
Crossed his heart for the winning score

But the players at the table
Two men of the phantom creed
Seemed to play with sombre purpose
Than a reason and pure greed
And the gambler felt his back freeze
And fear brushed his ageing brow
For he'd seen those men before in his dreams
Here they sat before him now

And the one smoothed back his black hair
With a comb slicked by brylcream and grease
Flipped the cards with a flippancy
Of a wily and slippery ease
With his sharp suit shade of lilac
On a shuffle he made the cards sing
Gold studs and menthol cigarettes
Rubies set in a skull ring

And the other of the clergy
With a colour and robe of pale ivory
Silver grey at the temples
And a smile that was stern and was kindly

Jack of hearts lead, wait for aces
Became faces of family and friends
Until the deck showed him a picture
Of his life from beginning to end
Reverend life he flipped an ace
And the gambler felt blood in his heart
For he knew this was the game of games
He would need all the reverends heart

Anger, lust and gluttony
The gambler seems hit hard
Each failure and each feature
Mapped out in the slippery cards
Greasy mr.d. flashed a winning grin
And stood facing reverend life
The reverend paled as he saw the score
The gambler felt pain as a knife

His troubles, tribulations
Revelations and regrets
A wife, a child, a fight to trial
Turned by the hand of death
And the gambler saw his hand stained
With the blood of his family ties
And with the yellow smile of mr.d.
In his mind he crumples and dies

And these two great men from different worlds
Faced each other and shook of hands
The reverend shrugged ah well next time
And departed for heavens land

And the flames leapt and the soul screamed
And the cards scattered round the room
And life is always a gamble
A game from the cradle to tomb

And the flames leapt and the soul screamed
And the cards scattered round the room
And life is always a gamble
A game from the cradle to tomb

And the flames leapt and the soul screamed
And the cards scattered round the room
And life is always a gamble
A game from the cradle to tomb


  Purchase "The Gambler"   Purchase Entire Album   Email Video to Friends   Play Youtube "The Gambler" Video   Play Spotify "The Gambler" Song   View Wikipedia "The Gambler" Entry   Receive Emails for Future Marc Almond Lyrics

Email:

  Link to "The Gambler"   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Lyrics For You

Loading...

Lyrics by Marc Almond

  A Love Outgrown   A Lover Spurned   A Man   A Man [Un Homme]   A Woman's Story   A World Full Of People   Abel & Cain   Abel And Cain   Addicted   Adored And Explored   Almost Diamonds   Alone   Alone (Seul)   Always   Amo Vitam   Anarcoma   Angel In Her Kiss   Baby Night Eyes   Backstage [I'm Lonely]   Bad People Kiss   Barriers   Beautiful Brutal Thing   Beautiful Losers   Bedroom Shrine   Bedsitter   Bedsitter Images   Betrayed   Bitter Sweet   Black Heart   Black Kiss   Black Lullaby   Black Mountain Blues   Blond Boy   Blood Tide   Body Unknown   Born To Cry   Born To Lose   Brilliant Creatures   Broken Bracelets   Broken Hearted And Beautiful   Bruises   Burn Bright   Burning Boats   Caged   Cara A Cara   Cara A Cara (Face To Face)   Carnival Of Life   Champ   Champagne   Child of Clay   Child Star   Christmas In Vegas   City Of Nights   Come In Sweet Assassin   Come Out   Contempt   Crime Sublime   Dancer   Dancing In A Golden Cage   Deadly Serenade   Death of a Dandy   Death's Diary (Demo Version)   Deaths Diary   Deep Night   Disease & Desire   Dream Lover   End In Tears   Everything I Wanted Love To Be   Exotica Rose   Facility Girls   For One Moment   Friends   Fun City   Gabriel   Glorious   Gutter Hearts   Gyp The Blood   Happy Heart   Healthy As Hate   Heart In Velvet   Heart on Snow   Heel   Hell Was A City   Her Imagination   I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten   I Feel Love   I Feel Love [*][Medley]   I Feel Love [Medley]   I Who Never   I'm Coming   I'm Coming (J'arrive)   I'm Sick Of You Tasting Of Somebody Else   I've Never Seen Your Face   If You Go Away   If You Need   If You Need (S'il Te Faut)   In My Room   In My Room   In Your Bed   Incestuous Love   Insecure Me   It's A Mugs Game   Jackal Jackal   Jacky   Jacky [Alpine Dub]   Joey Demento   Just Good Friends   Kept Boy   King Of The Fools   Kitsch   Law Of The Night   Lie   Lights   Litany For A Return   Little White Cloud That Cried   Lonely Go-Go Dancer   Looking For Love   Looking For Love (In All The Wrong Places)   Lost Paradise   Love And Little White Lies   Love For Sale   Love In A Time Of Science   Love Letter   Love To Die For   Loveless World   Madame De La Luna   Mamba   Medley   Meet Me in My Dream   Meet Me In My Dreams   Melancholy Rose   Melancholy Rose [Multimedia Track]   Memorabilia   Midnight Soul   Money For Love   Money For Love (Fiddle Mix)   Moonbathe Skin   Mother Fist   Mr Sad   Mr. Sad   My Candle Burns   My Death   My Guardian Angel   My Hand Over My Heart   My Little Lovers   My Love   Narcissus   Never To Be Next   Night & Dark   Night & Dark   Night And Dark   Night And No Morning   Oily Black Limousine   Old Jack's Charm   Old Jack's Charms   On The Prowl   One Big Soul   One Way Sunday   Only The Moment   Open All Night   Orpheus In Red Velvet   Out There   Persuasion   Pink Shack Blues   Pirate Jenny   Plague   Real Evil   Redeem Me   Redeem Me [Beauty Will Redeem the World]   Remorse Of The Dead   Ruby Red   Ruby Red [Multimedia Track]   Rue Des Blancs-Manteaux   Rues des Blancs-Manteaux   Saint Judy   Salty Dog   Satan's Child   Say Hello Wave Goodbye   Scarlet Bedroom   Secret Child   She Took My Soul In Istanbul   Shining Brightly   Shinning Brightly   Shinning Sinners   Sleaze   Sleepwalker   Smalltown Boy   Solo Adultos   Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart   Song For You   Soul on Soul   Soul on Soul [Album Version]   Soul on Soul [Original Extended]   Soul on Soul [Original Extened]   Split Lip   Stardom Road   Stars We Are (live)   Stories Of Johnny   Stories of Johnny [*]   Strangers In The Night   Surabaya Johnny   Tantalise Me   Tears Run Rings   Tenderness Is A Weakness   The Animal In You   The Ballad Of The Sad Young Men   The Boy Who Came Back   The Bulls   The City   The Curtain Falls   The Days Of Pearly Spencer   The Desperate Hours   The Desperate Ones   The Devil   The Devil (Okay)   The Devil (Okay) (Le Diable)   The Edge Of Heartbreak   The Exhibitionist   The Flesh Is Willing   The Frost Comes Tomorrow   The Ghetto   The Heel   The House Is Haunted   The Hustler   The Idol   The Idol (Idolised)   The Libertine's Dream   The Lockman   The Lockman (L'eclusier)   The London Boys   The Plague   The River   The Room Below   The Sea Says   The Sea Still Sings   The Sensualist   The Slave   The Stars We Are   The Town Fall Asleep (La Ville S'endormait)   The Town Fell Asleep   The User   The Very Last Pearl   There Is A Bed   These My Dreams Are Yours   Things You Loved Me For   Threat Of Love   Torch   Toreador In The Rain   Tragedy   Tramp And The Young Girl   Traumas, Traumas, Traumas   Traumas. Traumas, Traumas   Two Sailors On The Beach   Ugly Head   Unborn Stillborn   Under Your Wing   Undress Me   Vaudeville And Burlesque   Vision   Vision (live)   Waifs & Strays (Grid Twilight Mix)   Waifs And Strays   We Must Look   We Must Look (Il Nous Faut Regarder)   We Need Jealousy   What Is Love?   What Makes A Man   What Makes A Man A Man   What Makes A Man A Man (Live Studio Version)   When It's Your Time   Where Did Our Love Go?   Where the Heart Is   Why?   Widow Weeds   World Full of People   Worship Me Now   Yesterday Has Gone [Balearico Mix]   Yesterday When I Was Young   You Have   You Only Live Twice   You'll Never See Me On A Sunday   Your Aura   Your Kisses Burn   Your Love Is A Lesion   Youth

Related Songs

  Gambler, Gambler - Elf  Gambler - Madonna  The Heart Is A Gambler - Cowgirls  Kentucky Gambler - Dolly Parton  Son of a Rotten Gambler - Niki Aukema  Son of a Rotten Gambler - Anne Murray  Son of a Rotten Gambler - Chip Taylor  Son of a Rotten Gambler - The Hollies  Son of a Rotten Gambler [*] - The Hollies  Marguerite And The Gambler - Mary Black  Kentucky Gambler - Merle Haggard  Kentuckey Gambler - Merle Haggard  RIVERBOAT GAMBLER - Carly Simon  Gambler - Trooper  Rovin' Gambler - Dierks Bentley  Roving Gambler - Billie Joe & Norah  Roving Gambler...  Roving Gambler - Norah Jones  Sonny The Monster - Guided by Voices  Showboat Gambler...  Showboat Gambler - England Dan & John Ford Coley  Gambler - Garou  The Gambler - Trip  The Gambler - Bobby Bare  The Gambler - Sybersound  The Gambler - Thea Gilmore  The Gambler - Johnny Cash  The Gambler - Guthrie Woody  The Gambler - Xzibit  The Gambler - Woody Guthrie  The Gambler - Fun  The Gambler - Kenny Rogers  The Gambler - Fun.  The Gambler - Don Schlitz  The Gambler - Cash Johnny  Gamblers Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins  Gambler's Blues - Buddy Guy  Roving Gambler - Hank Thompson  Rambler, Gambler - Bob Dylan  Gambler - Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise  Gambler - Robert Bradley  Gambler - Whitesnake  Gambler - Xzibit  Gambler - Bobby Bare  Midnight Rambler [Live] - The Rolling Stones  Midnight Rambler (live) - The Rolling Stones  Moonlight Gambler - Frankie Laine  Riverboat Gambler - Chris LeDoux  Midnight Gambler - CC Catch  Big Time Gambler - Eddy Clearwater  Roving Gambler - The Everly Brothers  Roving Gambler - Buck Owens  Roving Gambler - Everly Brothers  Roving Gambler - Simon and Garfunkel  I'm Ragged But I'm Right - Johnny Cash  There's A Place In The World For A Gambler...  Midnight Rambler - Rolling Stones  Midnight Rambler (Live) - Rolling Stones  Midnight Rambler - The Rolling Stones  House Of The Rising Sun - Jandek  The Most Cursed of Hands / Who Am I...  St. John The Gambler - Townes Van Zandt  St John The Gambler - Townes Van Zandt  Son Of A Rotten Gambler - Emmylou Harris  Rovin' Gambler - Hank Thompson  Broken Down Gambler - Flying Jenny  Gambler (High Stakes) - Billy The Kid  Back Home [#] - Golden Earring  Hustle & Flow - Haystak  The Roving Gambler - Marty Robbins  The Gambler [Instrumental] - Hit Crew  The Roving Gambler - Tex Ritter  The Roving Gambler - George Hamilton Iv  The Way My Daddy Done - Buzz Carlton  Norman - Max Romeo  Big City Life [#] - Matthew Good  Big City Life - Matthew Good  Big City Life - Matthew Good Band  A Game In Town Like This - Corb Lund  Sure Know Something - Kiss  Evangeline - The Band  House Of The Rising Sun - Jimi Hendrix  House Of The Rising Sun - Waylon Jennings  The House of the Rising Sun - Waylon Jennings  Back Home - Golden Earring  The History of Utah - Camper Van Beethoven  Mister And Mississippi - Eddy Arnold  Kopfhaut - Die ärzte  The Rovin' Gambler - Tennessee Ernie Ford  Kopfhaut - Die Aerzte  Evangeline - Band, The  There's A Place In The World For A Gambler...  Hazardman - Debase  Sure Know Something - Espen Lind  A Game In Town Like This...  Evangeline - Levon Helm  Evangeline - Emmylou Harris  Vickie Vance Gotta Dance - Chesnutt Mark  The House of the Rising Sun - Claude King  House of the Rising Sun - Claude King  Soul Gambler - Spiritual Front  Church Gambler - Mesa Verde  Roving Gambler - Marty Robbins  Roving Gambler - Marty Robbins  Roving Gambler - Eddy Arnold  Compulsive Gambler - Sam Phillips  Rooftop Gambler - Pavement  Rovin' Gambler - Eddy Arnold  Roving Gambler - Jim Reeves  Unknown - Julie Doiron  Sow Em On the Mountain - Anne & Pete Sibley  If I Were a Drinker - Travis Tritt  If I Were A Carpenter - Waylon Jennings  Loser - Kenny Rogers  1979 - Kiss  Run On - The Jordanaires  Run On [Take 6] - Elvis Presley  Run On - Presley Elvis  Black Ship in the Harbour - Felt  The Gambler (feat. Anthony Hamilton) - Xzibit  Don’t Call Him A Retard - Arab On Radar  Ragged But Right - George Jones  Ragged, but Right - George Jones  Ragged But Right - Waylon Jennings  I'm Ragged But I'm Right - George Jones  Gods Gonna Cut You Down - The Gaslight Anthem  Liar - Christine Mcvie  God's Gonna Cut You Down - The Gaslight Anthem  God's Gunna Cut You Down - Johnny Cash  In God's Hands - Johnny Cash  God's Gonna Cut You Down - Johnny Cash  God's Gonna Cut You Down - Johnny Cash  God - Johnny Cash  The My Funny Valentine - Kenny Rogers  Run On - Elvis Presley  Riverboat - Bill Anderson  A Modern Day Prodigal Son - Brantley Gilbert  Boots Like These - Ben Harper  Roving Gambler/this Train - Kingston Trio  Roving Gambler\/This Train - Kingston Trio  House of the Rising Sun (The Animals cover)...  House of the Rising Sun - Dave Van Ronk  House of the Rising Sun [*] - Shawn Mullins  House Of The Risin' Sun - Bob Dylan  House of the Rising Sun [Live] - Shawn Mullins  House of the Rising Sun [With Band][Multimedia Tra...  House of the Rising Sun - Bob Dylan  Riverboat - Faron Young  The Drifter - Devour the Day  Run On - Tom Jones  Run On - Tom Jones  Gambler's Roll - Allman Brothers Band, The  Gambler's Roll - Allman Brothers Band  Gambler's Roll - The Allman Brothers Band  Mister and Mississippi [*] - Patti Page  Mister And Mississippi - Patti Page  That Sea, The Gambler - Gregory Alan Isakov  The Gambler (Better Off)...  Guitar Fool - Brock Zeman  Closure - Emm Gryner  Homerun - Gotthard  God's Gonna Cut You Down (Johnny Cash cover)...  At The Alter - Femme Fatale  The Last Waltz - Band, The  My Sanctuary - Pig  Crazy If You Mess With The Gods - Burton Cummings  Changing Time - Jahcoozi  World Ain't Right - Hurt  Pretty Polly - The Byrds  Pretty Polly [*] - The Byrds  Pretty Polly [Alternate Version] - The Byrds  Hummingbird - Dionne Warwick  Gambler's Blues - B.B. King  Hummingbird [Live Fillmore East] - B.B. King  Gambler's Blues - B.B. King  Once A Gambler - Crazy Heart  Once A Gambler - Lightnin' Hopkins  Once Was a Gambler - Lightnin' \rHopkins  Once A Gambler - Lightnin' \rHopkins  The Angel and the Gambler - Steve Harris  The Angel And The Gambler - Iron Maiden  Golden Strip [Live]...  The Last Waltz - The Band  Doc Holliday - Volbeat  Dutchman's Gold - Walter Brennan  World Ain't Right - Hurt  World Ain't Right (Acoustic) - Hurt  Mister and Mississippi - Dennis Day  Mister and Mississippi - Norman Luboff Choir  Pretty Polly - Byrds, The  R.K. On Death - Our Lady Peace  The Midnight NAMBLA - Turbonegro  Cripple Creek Ferry - Neil Young  The Rambler - Rane  Southwestward - Johnny Cash  Of A Friday Night - Anaïs Mitchell  Waterhole - Outlaws  Five Brothers - Marty Robbins  Five Brothers (1960) - Marty Robbins  Blues for Rosann - Balthazar