The Gambler (Live)

Song The Gambler (Live)
Artist Fun.
Album Before Shane Went To Bangkok: FUN. Live in The USA

Lyrics

[00:09.710] Slow down,
[00:11.530] we've got time left to be lazy
[00:13.950] All the kids have bloomed from babies into flowers in our eyes.
[00:18.470] We've got 50 good years left to spend out in the garden
[00:23.140] I don't care to beg your pardon,
[00:25.470] We should live until we die.
[00:32.410]
[00:34.930] We were barely 18 when we'd crossed collective hearts.
[00:39.630] It was cold, but it got warm when you'd barely crossed my eye.
[00:44.180] and then you turned, put out your hand,
[00:46.290] and you asked me to dance.
[00:48.630] I knew nothing of romance, but it was love at second sight.
[00:52.910] I swear when I grow up, I won't just buy you a rose.
[01:03.510] I will buy the flower shop, and you will never be lonely.
[01:09.570]
[01:11.410] Even if the sun stops waking up over the fields
[01:15.260] I will not leave, I will not leave 'till it's our time.
[01:21.920] Will you take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side.
[01:29.530]
[01:36.270] It was the winter of '86, and all the fields had frozen over.
[01:41.240] So we moved to Arizona to save our only son
[01:45.710] and now he's turning to a man, although he thinks just like his mother,
[01:50.510] he believes we're all just lovers he sees hope in everyone.
[01:54.620] And even though she moved away,
[01:56.970] we always get calls from our daughter.
[01:59.370] She has eyes just like her father's
[02:01.820] they are blue when skies are grey
[02:03.990] And just like him, she never stops,
[02:06.000] Never takes the day for granted,
[02:08.630] works for everything that's handed to her,
[02:11.380] Never once complains.
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[02:16.770] You think that I nearly lost you
[02:25.540] When the doctors tried to take you away.
[02:32.910] But like the night you took my hand beside the fire
[02:40.260] 30 years ago to this day
[02:47.690] You swore you'd be here 'til we decide that it's our time
[02:52.490] Well it's not time, you've never quit in all your life.
[02:59.390] Will you my hand, you know that I will never leave your side.
[03:24.570] You're the love of my life, you know that I will never leave your side.
[03:39.070]
[04:15.740] You come home from work and you kiss me on the eye.
[04:19.920] You curse the dogs, you say that I should never feed them what is ours.
[04:24.650] So We Move Out To The Garden And Look At Everything We've Grown
[04:29.010] And now the kids are Coming home.
[04:31.610] I'll set the table.
[04:41.160] You can make the fire.