Bruce Cockburn – You Pay Your Money and You Take Your Chance

Bruce Cockburn – You Pay Your Money and You Take Your Chance Lyrics

Artist: Bruce Cockburn
Song: You Pay Your Money and You Take Your Chance

Woman cry—chase a man down street crying
“No Chuckie, no, please don’t”
Another girl comes they run along St. Andrew
Turn south on Kensington

Meanwhile Chuckie beats it down the alley by the chicken packer’s
By the time I reach the corner they’ve all vanished
Just a deaf kid talking like Popeye
To a large fleshy laughing man in a blue shirt

You pay your money and you take your chance
When you’re dealing with love and romance
Pay your money and you take your chance
When you’re dealing with love and romance

Down the alley past the fire escape
A woman is talking on the telephone
Kitchen light spills out, laughter riding on its beam
In the maze of Moebius streets

We’re trying to amuse ourselves to death
Under the deep sky that’s squatting so close over us tonight
You’d think it was trying to hatch us
The numb and confused

The battered and bruised
The counters of cost
And the star-crossed
Well you pay your money and you take your chance

When you’re dealing with love and romance
Pay your money and you take your chance
When you’re dealing with love and romance
Confused and solo in the spawning ground

I watch the confusion of friends all numb with love
Moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night-long conversations
Of pulsing rhythms and random voltage voices
In spite of themselves, graceful as these raindrops

Creeping sperm-like across the car window
Stay or leave, give or withhold, hesitate or leap
Each step splashing sparks of red pain in every direction
And through it all, somehow

This willingness that asks no questions
You pay your money and you take your chance
When you’re dealing with love and romance
Pay your money and you take your chance

When you’re dealing with love and romance
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Release Year: 1997