Bruce Springsteen – Roulette (Guitar)

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[Intro] Asus4 Dm C Bb Asus4 Dm C Bb Asus4 [Verse 1]
Dm                             C
   We left the toys out in the yard

Bb                                       Asus4
   I took my wife and kids and I left my home unguarded

Dm                                  C
   We packed what we could into the car

Bb                           Asus4
   No one here knows how it started
[Bridge 1]
Dm
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' [Chorus 1]
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
Roulette, everybody's playin'
F C [Verse 2]
Dm                         C
   I grew up here on this street where nothin' moves

       Bb                                Asus4
Just a strange breeze in a town full of worthless memories

Dm                         C
   There's a shadow in my backyard

           Bb                                                                       Asus4
I've got a house full of things that I can't touch, well all those things won't do me much good now
[Bridge 2]
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 canceled null and void
Well what you gonna do about your new boy [Chorus 2]
C                Dm
Roulette, you're playin' with my life

C                Bb
Roulette, with my kids and my wife

C                Dm
Roulette, every day the stakes get bigger

C                     Bb
Roulette, a different finger on the trigger
F C [Indtrumental] Am Em D F G Dm C [Verse 3]
Dm                        C
   Down by the river that talks

    Bb                                          Asus4
The night speaks in searchlights and shortwave radios squawk

Dm                        C
    The police patrol the streets

        Bb                                                                           Asus4
But I've left behind the man I used to be verything he believed and all that belonged to me
[Bridge 3]
Dm
I tried to find my way out to somewhere where I thought it'd be safe

Am/E
They stopped me at the roadblock they put up on the interstate

Bb/F
They put me in detention but I broke loose and then I ran

Gm
They said they want to ask me a few questions but I think they had other plans

Bb/F
Now I don't know who to trust and I don't know what I can believe

A/E
They say they want to help me but with the stuff they keep on sayin'
I think those guys just wanna keep on playin' [Chorus 3]
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   Bb     C
No further danger