Tom: Dm

Intro:
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                                                               We left...
                            C    Bb
We left the toys out in the yard
                            A                      Dm
I took my wife and kids and left my home unguarded 
                                 C   Bb
We packed what we could into the car 
                  A              Dm
No one here knows how it started 

Suddenly everything was just so out of control 
      Am
Now I want some answers, mister, I need to know 
  Bb
I hear all the talk but I don't know what you're sayin' 

But I think I got a good idea of the game that you're playin' 
C             Dm
Roulette, that's the name 
C             Bb
Roulette, that's the game now 
C                 Dm
Roulette, I don't know what they're sayin' 
C             Bb                  |  F C  |  Dm
Roulette, and everybody's playin' 
                       C                                  Bb
I grew up here on this street where nothin' moves, just a strange breeze 
                   A                Dm
In a town full of worthless memories
                           C
There's a shadow in my backyard
           Bb    
I've got a house full of things that I can't touch 
                               A
Well all those things won't do me much good now 
Dm
I was a fireman out at Riker's, I did my job 
Am
Mister, I've been cheated, I feel like I've been robbed 
Bb
I'm the big expendable, my life's just cancelled, null and void 

But what are you gonna do about your new boy 
C             Dm
Roulette, you're playin' with my life 
C              Bb
Roulette, with my children and my wife 
C                Dm
Roulette, every day the stakes get bigger 
C              Bb                           |  F C  | 
Roulette, a different finger on the trigger 
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Dm                     C           Bb  
Down by the river that talks the night speaks in searchlights 
     A                     Dm
And shortwave radios squawk,
                        C
The police patrol the streets 
          Bb
But I've left behind the man I used to be,
                              A
Everything he believed in and all that belonged to me 
Dm
I tried to find my way out to somewhere where I thought it'd be safe
      Am
They stopped me at the roadblock they put up on the interstate 
  Bb
They put me in detention but I broke loose and then I ran 
  Gm                                                                          Bb
They said they want to ask me a few questions but I think they had other plans 
                                                                 A4
Now I don't know who to trust and I don't know what I can believe 

They say they want to help me but with the stuff they keep on sayin'

I think those guys just wanna keep on playin' 
C           Dm
Roulette, with my life 
C           Bb
Roulette, with my kids and my wife 
C               Dm
Roulette, the bullet's in the chamber 
C                Bb
Roulette, who's the unlucky stranger 
C              Dm
Roulette, surprise, you're dead 
C              Bb
Roulette, the gun's to your head 
C                      Dm
Roulette, the bullet's spinning in the chamber 
C                   Bb
Roulette, pull the trigger, feel the click 
F            C
No further danger