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YOU BET YOUR LIFE Lyrics

Artist: Rush
Album: Roll The Bones

Words by Neil Peart, Music by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson

Just another hunter, like a wolf in the sun
Just another junkie on a scoring run
Just another victim of the things he has done
Just another day -- in the life of a loaded gun

THE ODDS GET EVEN -- You name the game
THE ODDS GET EVEN -- The stakes are the same
YOU BET YOUR LIFE

Just another winner, pours his life down the drain
Just another island in a hurricane
Just another loser, like a cat in the rain
Just another day -- in the path of a speeding train

THE ODDS GET EVEN -- You name the game
THE ODDS GET EVEN -- The stakes are the same
YOU BET YOUR LIFE

anarchist reactionary running-dog revisionist
hindu muslim catholic creation/evolutionist
rational romantic mystic cynical idealist
minimal expressionist post-modern neo-symbolist

armchair rocket scientist graffiti existentialist
deconstruction primitive performance photo-realist
be-bop or a one-drop or a hip-hop lite-pop-metallist
gold adult contemporary urban country capitalist

Just another gypsy with a plastic guitar
Just another dancer with her eyes on the stars
Just another dreamer who was going too far
Just another drunk -- at the wheel of a stolen car

THE ODDS GET EVEN -- You name the game
THE ODDS GET EVEN -- The stakes are the same
YOU BET YOUR LIFE

Comments/Interpretations

by sasha on 5/12/2008 4:36pm
UNbelievable....
GO RUSH!

by huge rush fan on 5/31/2011 4:04pm
The last refrain does not say "You name the game" and "The stakes are the same."

This is the best song ever. It's incredible.

by Herman Girard buquet 16 age on 6/19/2013 3:45pm
favorite song on the roll of bones album.
i ave everylast album