[Dm]        [C]         [Bb]              [Dm]
There are unsmiling faces and bright plastic chains

      [Dm]           [A]      [Dm]
And a wheel in perpetual motion

         [Dm]         [C]         [Bb]          [Dm]
And they follow the races and pay out the gains

         [Dm]        [A]          [Dm]
With no show of an outward emotion


          [A]                              [Dm]
And they think it will make their lives easier

        [A]                            [Gm]
For God knows up till now it's been hard

         [Dm]         [C]             [Eb]              [Dm]
But the game never ends when your whole world depends

        [Dm]        [A]        [Dm]
On the turn of a friendly card

       [Dm]         [C]                [Eb]           [Dm]
No the game never ends when your whole world depends

       [Dm]           [A]      [Dm]
On the turn of a friendly card


          [Dm]           [C]          [Bb]           [Dm]
There's a sign in the desert that lies to the west

           [Dm]            [A]                 [Dm]
Where you can't tell the night from the sunrise

        [Dm]             [C]          [Bb]              [Dm]
And not all the king's horses and all the king's men

         [Dm]        [A]           [Dm]
Have prevented the fall of the unwise


        [A]                              [Dm]
And they think it will make their lives easier

        [A]                            [Gm]
For God knows up till now it's been hard

         [Dm]         [C]             [Eb]              [Dm]
But the game never ends when your whole world depends

        [Dm]        [A]        [Dm]
On the turn of a friendly card

       [Dm]         [C]                [Eb]           [Dm]
No the game never ends when your whole world depends

       [Dm]           [A]      [Dm]
On the turn of a friendly card