Closing Down the Casino

Courtney Lucas Photography

Sweet demise is charting high with no explanation at all.

‘69 wouldn’t stay behind to watch the good times fall.

It was the event of the year and having you here would’ve made my top 100,

But you only carry 50 dollar bills like you want to give me up.

Can’t you tell by the sign I can’t offer you much luck?

Darlin’, please don’t go they’re closing down the casino,

But you you can come home with me.

And I promise I won’t leave in the morning when your pockets are all empty,

And every ace has fallen out your sleeve.

They’re closing down the casino,

But you can still bet-bet on me.

It’s always been an uncertain business.

Funny isn’t it? Now it’s lost the humor.

Sweet escape built on spare change and a quickly spreading rumor.

I’m the purest gold that you’ll ever hold in your contradicting hands that grab at the strangest things that I’ve learned to find funny.

We’d like to keep this thing going, but we seem to lack the money.

Darlin’, please don’t go they’re closing down the casino,

But you you can come home with me.

And I promise I won’t leave in the morning when your pockets are all empty,

And every ace has fallen out your sleeve.

They’re closing down the casino,

But you can still bet-bet on me.

They say welcome to the gaming hall.

Say hello to strategies and playing fees with no cause-

Causing the worst kind of rage.

When the seemingly unsettled have all settled down and the chandeliers were no more than a crystal cage.

Ain’t it strange, ain’t it strange?

Darlin’, please don’t go they’re closing down the casino,

But you you can come home with me.

And I promise I won’t leave in the morning when your pockets are all empty,

And every ace has fallen out your sleeve.

They’re closing down the casino,

But you can still bet-bet on me.