Lay Them Down - Tommy Shaw

Mischief in motion

Seemed innocent enough

Wild-eyed devotion

Now you can’t give it up

Back on your feet again

You call it luck

You’d justify anything

Rather than give it up

It should not have to be so hard

If you don’t see it in the cards

Lay them down, lay them down, lay them down

You don’t need them any more

Lay them down, lay them down, lay them down

The only prayer the gambler prays

Is that his face won’t show his hand

He’s perfected a way

To shut out everything

There’s a fire where the children are

But you refuse to see the flames

They try to warn you baby

But you won’t leave your game

You can’t think of folding your hand

You can’t think of walking away

Not 'till you win one more game

Then you won’t need it any more

Won’t need any more