We left the toys out in the yard   I took my wife and kids and left my home unguarded   We packed what we could into the car   No one here knows how it started   But suddenly everything was just so out of control   Now I want some answers, mister, I need to know   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'      Roulette, that's the name now   Roulette, that's the game now   Roulette, I don't believe what they're sayin'   Roulette, and everybody's playin'      I grew up here on this street where nothin' moves, just a strange breeze   In a town full of worthless memories there's a shadow in my backyard   I've got a house full of things that I can't touch   Well all those things they won't do me much good now   I was a fireman out at riker's, I did my job   Mister, I've been cheated, I feel like I've been robbed   I'm the big expendable, my life's just canceled, null and void   But what are you gonna do about your new boy      Roulette, you're playin' with my life   Roulette, with my kids and my wife   Roulette, every day the stakes get bigger   Roulette, a different finger on the trigger      Down by the river that talks the night speaks in searchlights   And shortwave radio squawk, the police patrol the streets   But I've left behind the man I used to be, everything he believed in and all that belonged to me   I tried to find my way out to somewhere where I thought it'd be safe   They stopped me at the roadblock they put up on the interstate   They put me in detention but I broke loose and then I ran   They said they want to ask me a few questions but I think they had other plans   Now I don't know who to trust and I don't know what I can believe   They say they want to help me but with the stuff they keep on sayin'   I think those guys just wanna keep on playin'      Roulette, with my life   Roulette, with my kids and my wife   Roulette, the bullet's in the chamber   Roulette, who's the unlucky stranger   Roulette, surprise, you're dead   Roulette, the gun's to your head   Roulette, the bullet's spinning in the chamber   Roulette, pull the trigger, feel the click   No further danger