[Verse 1]
Backroom buzz
Velvet rope half torn
Cheap perfume
Stains on my uniform
Queen of hearts
Tapped ash in a plastic tray
You smiled slow
Said
"You gonna play or walk away?"
[Chorus]
It’s double or nothing
And I keep on cutting the deck
Red chips shaking
Sweat rolling down my neck
You say I’m bluffing
But I bet my last regret
On kings and crooked luck
I ain’t folded yet
[Verse 2]
Cracked green felt
Names carved in the rail
Your chipped ring
Drumming out a fairy tale
You raised blind
I raised you my better days
Lost my cool
Somewhere in that sideways gaze
[Chorus]
It’s double or nothing
And I keep on cutting the deck
Red chips shaking
Sweat rolling down my neck
You say I’m bluffing
But I bet my last regret
On kings and crooked luck
I ain’t folded yet
[Bridge]
[Strings drop to a low tremble]
All the rules I broke
Signed them in smoke
Prayers on a coaster
Face-down joke
If I lose this hand
I still got scars
Carved like suits
On this cracked-up heart (oh)
[Chorus]
It’s double or nothing
And I keep on cutting the deck
Red chips shaking
Sweat rolling down my neck
You say I’m bluffing
But I bet my last regret
On kings and crooked luck
On every bad old bet
Yeah
Deal me one more hit
I ain’t folded yet