Bruce Cockburn - You Pay Your Money and You Take Your Chance lyrics
[Bruce Cockburn - You Pay Your Money and You Take Your Chance lyrics]
Woman cry chase a man down street crying
"No Chuckie, no, please, don't"
Another girl comes they run along St andrew
Turn south on Kensington
Meanwhile Chuckie beats it down the
Alley by the chicken packer's
By the time I reach the
Corner they've all vanished
Just a deaf kid talking like Popeye
To a large fleshy laughing man
In a blue shirt
Down the alley past the fire escape
A woman is talking on the telephone
Kitchen light spills out
Laughter riding on it's beam
In the maze of Moebius streets
We're trying to amuse ourselves to death
Under the deep sky that's squatting
So close over us tonight
You'd think it was trying to hatch us
The numb and confused
The battered and bruised
The counters of cost and the star-crossed
Well you pay your money and
You take your chance
When you're dealing with love and romance
Pay your money and you take your chance
When you're dealing with love and romance
Confused and solo in the spawning ground
I watch the confusion of friends
All numb with love
Moving like stray dogs to the
Anthem of night-long conversations
Of pulsing rhythms and random voltage voices
In spite of themselves
Graceful as these raindrops
Creeping sperm-like across the car window
Stay or leave, give or withhold
Hesitate or leap
Each step splashing sparks of red
Pain in every direction
And through it all, somehow
This willingness that asks no questions
You pay your money and you take your chance
When you're dealing with love and romance
Pay your money and you take your chance
When you're dealing with love and romance
"No Chuckie, no, please, don't"
Another girl comes they run along St andrew
Turn south on Kensington
Meanwhile Chuckie beats it down the
Alley by the chicken packer's
By the time I reach the
Corner they've all vanished
Just a deaf kid talking like Popeye
To a large fleshy laughing man
In a blue shirt
Down the alley past the fire escape
A woman is talking on the telephone
Kitchen light spills out
Laughter riding on it's beam
In the maze of Moebius streets
We're trying to amuse ourselves to death
Under the deep sky that's squatting
So close over us tonight
You'd think it was trying to hatch us
The numb and confused
The battered and bruised
The counters of cost and the star-crossed
Well you pay your money and
You take your chance
When you're dealing with love and romance
Pay your money and you take your chance
When you're dealing with love and romance
Confused and solo in the spawning ground
I watch the confusion of friends
All numb with love
Moving like stray dogs to the
Anthem of night-long conversations
Of pulsing rhythms and random voltage voices
In spite of themselves
Graceful as these raindrops
Creeping sperm-like across the car window
Stay or leave, give or withhold
Hesitate or leap
Each step splashing sparks of red
Pain in every direction
And through it all, somehow
This willingness that asks no questions
You pay your money and you take your chance
When you're dealing with love and romance
Pay your money and you take your chance
When you're dealing with love and romance