Every king's an outlaw
Every man's a thief
News of the world
Brings no relief

I tell a tale
In my tired eyes
Seen it everywhere
Ain't no surprise

Chorus
Them's the rules
Casinos never lose
Cry and fret but
That's all you get

Rumor has it
I'm a patriotic man
Just keep on moving
Gun in hand

"Never look back, never think twice"
These words I heed
True grit
Is all I need

Chorus

The truth be told
My mind has changed
My heart
Feels shortchanged

Laying on the ground
Like a hound
I ain't no tourist
In this town

Chorus

If there're no dogs in heaven
Hell's where they must all be
I hear them howling 
They're coming for me

Them's the rules(original)

Here's a song I created with with my good friend Dan Joyce.  
His lyrics, my music.  The topic is a bit dark, but wholly human!
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I put myself in hell
And checked in at the door
Confessing all the sins
I did commit before

I told them it was power
And love that tempted me
Deluded by the madness
So blind I could not see

There awaits the beauty
Lying there to be
Drowning in my sorrow
To the bottom of the sea

I could not fair to tell her
She was not destiny
And violated her body
Then left her there to be

The family and the loved ones
All cast me out to  exile
Today I hear her screaming
As I await my trial

So you see I have no virtue
Honor or decree
I’m just a common criminal
Longing to be free

The devil he then told me
As he shook his head
You are not match for Hades
Just because you’re dead

So turn around and walk away
Don’t check in at the door
For those who know true evil
They don't feel remorse

In shock I heard him saying
As I left the fiery flames
The book of life has written
In heaven, my name

In heaven my name (original)

Another brother sister combo!
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Your loooooooovvvvvvvvvvveeeeee
Fits like a glove
Your looooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeee
Feels like a drug
 
You got me on Tilt a Wheel
Don’t know what I'm supposed to feel
Yeah I'm spun around
Don’t know my up from down
Thought you were here with me
But it was all just a memory 
Of how it was yeah how it used to be 

Your loooooooovvvvvvvvvvveeeeee
Fits like a glove
Your looooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeee
Feels like a drug

Tell me honey is it still the same
That it's not just a twisted game
I know our love can be turned around
What we lost, can still be found
I still want you here with me
Can’t get enough, I’ll never be free

Your love (original)

It was the summer of 91
When we went down to the river
Lighting off firework and taking silly pictures
That’s when we fell in love

The moon shone off your body
I felt your heart beat as I held you tight

We were married that winter
Your mother said she wouldn’t even come
But now it’s been 30 years
I can’t believe how far we’ve come

Your mother passed last winter
One of the last things she said to me was, thanks for everything

Yeah we could have been better parents
Could have been better to each other too
But it’s pretty damn amazing
All that we’ve been through

But every summer, when the moon is full
I think back to the river, and where it all began

Yeah, down by the river
Where we fell in love

Down by the river (original)

You can’t stop the coming of the rain
It happens to us all time and again

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Chorus
When you’re down and out, and feeling the pain
Someday soon it’s all gonna wane
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Can’t stop the coming of the rain
Just let it wash over the pain
Can’t stop the coming of the rain
It happens to us all time and again

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Chorus
When you’re down and out, and feeling the pain
Your time will come, just hold on till then
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Cause you can’t stop the coming of the rain
It happens to us all time and again

Comin’ of the rain (original)

Oh yeah, your love is like a heart attack
Every time I get up, it knocks me back
Just when I think I’m getting healthy again
Well, that sickness it draws me in
I may be down but I'm not out
Yeah, you're gonna hear me shout

CHORUS
Call the doctor
Bring in everything you've got
Cause I know I'm need a shot
I need protection from this pleasure and pain
Keep it coming like Novocain

Oh well, your love is like high anxiety
Just when I'm feeling good, it reminds me
How your love is like a devil in disguise 
Telling me nothing but lies
I may be down but I'm not out
Yeah, you're gonna hear me shout

CHORUS

Oh yeah your love is like a heart attack
Every time I get up, it slaps me back
Someday I’m gonna find the antidote
For that venom that lives in your throat
I may be down but I'm not out
Yeah, you're gonna hear me shout

Heart attack (original)

What it’s worth

Tell me what it's worth
When all you love returns to dirt
Tell me what it's worth
After all you lost since you got lured
 
Tell me what’s it worth
A pound of flesh for a bag of earth
Six figures, with enough to blow
How is its possible to feel so low
 
Yeah what do you have to show
For 21 grams of heart and soul
Yeah, how will you know
How much you traded and how to account for it all
 
Tell me what it’s worth
All you gave for all that hurt
Tell me what’s it worth
All you gave up for all that hurt
Tell me how will you know
Did you get what you need to grow
Tell me what’s it worth

What’s it Worth  (original)

We got together right out a high school
King and queen of the prom, oh we were so cool
To get our first place, above our favorite bar 
A one-bedroom flat, well I sold my car

We had pizza for dinner, most every night
We slept on the floor, but that was alright
Your momma cried on the phone, she said are you sure?
She said baby please just, walk out that door

She said…please come home, please come home 
She said…please come home, please come home

Well, I started working with Jimmy down at the bar
We’d drink beers at night on the hood of your car
You said maybe you’d go back to school
It all seemed so simple, but then life can be cruel

That summer you got pregnant, well it all changed overnight
Your daddy screamed at me on the phone, kid you better make this right

He said, please come home, please come home
He said, please come home, please come home

Well that spring our baby girl she arrived
I never seen nothing so perfect, I never felt so alive
But sleepless nights and so many damn fights
Nothing was working, and the money got tight

Then that night when you called at the bar, you cried in my ear, well you cried in my arms
It’s all over town, just tell me her name, you said, I don’t know if it’ll, ever be the same

I said, please don’t go, please don’t go 
I said, please don’t go, please don’t go

Well you were gone, by Christmas that year
You started taking night classes, or that’s what I hear
I need a new job, at least that’s the plan
I see my girl when you let me, whenever I can

Well your folks they never forgave me, I guess that’s no surprise
I guess never forgave myself either, but if I had one more try

I’d say, please come home, please come home 
I’d say, please come home, please come home

Please come home (original)

Here I am, where you left me
Alone and, on bended knee
Red with anger, green with jealously 
A sad broke down rejected lover
No, that ain’t me

CHORUS
I’m living for me now
I’m living free,
Unencumbered by responsibly
Oh it’s amazing, oh can’t you see?
And it’s all to make you come 
Crawling. Back. To. Me.

Only a fool, would leave us behind
And soon you’ll regret it
Oh I know you’ll change your mind
It’s just a matter of time
I know you’ll come to see
You can do no better, no better than me

CHORUS
Until then, I’m living for me
I’m living free
Unencumbered by responsibly
It’s amazing, oh can’t you see?
And it’s all to make you come 
Crawling. back. to. me.

Maybe you moved on, that’s what my friends tell me
Something about a new guy and starting a family
It might be next week, yeah it might be next year
But you’ll be back, baby and I’ll be waitin’ here

CHORUS
But until then, oh I'm living for me
Yeah, I’m living free
Unencumbered by responsibly
Ain’t it amazing, oh can’t you see?
That it’s all, oh it’s all so you’ll come crawling back to me

Crawling back to me (original)

When I, saw you
Oh then, well I knew
That I would make you mine
But then oh you were gone

CHORUS
And I know you are just a dream
I can’t forget you, so it would seem
I saw you once, you were so fine
Now think of you all the time

The other day, I thought I saw you
On the street, walking the other way
I wanted, to call out to you
But, I didn’t know your name

CHORUS
Now I’m searching high and low
I gotta find you, I gotta let you know
I want have, hold you tight
Feel you close make you feel alright

[Piano interlude]

If we, were together
Oh it would be a dream come true
I would be by your side
Everyday and in everyway

CHORUS
I truly hope this dream comes true
Until that day I’ll sing this sing to you
I hope this dream never ends
To your needs, I will always attend

Oh, girl, I love you
But I know it’s only a dream
I know I just met you
But I think of you all the time

Kuribo