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That Was a Crazy Game of Poker > Live From Madison Square Garden

They call me crazy
I think I lost my mind
But I stopped looking for this shit a long time ago
I might be lazy, see
Half my days
Just sitting down on a couch
Try to think a couple clever things to say

Well see but that's just me
I got a boulder on my shoulder
Gonna cut that thing in half
And I gotta get where I'm going real soon
I gotta get there fast
And the harder that it gets
And the more that I move
Oh the moon became my best friend
I ended up playing with the devil at a saloon

Now it was hard for me
I left behind everything that I own
And I walked out west
Threw a knapsack around my back
Hat on my head but the sun burned through
I got a hole in the bottom of my shoe
I'm not sure
What to say, what to do at this time
I saw an old bar back and behind
I bust the door went back to the back
Sat down at a table how about that
I saw an old couple dudes
And one man got red eyes
And he stare right through me
Burned two holes in my chest
And I'm pretty sure it was the Devil
Said my son would you like to play a game
For your soul and your brain and your heart
I got a few dollars left, I said that's fine
That was the craziest game I'd ever played in my life
Now when the devil talk to you
You got a thing or two you gotta understand about
He not really talking at you, he talking in you
And the way he be, the way he sound
A little something laying down from the ground
I got it tight, distorting it right
And this is how he sound just a little tonight
He go

Oh no, hell no, I'm not gonna let him talk to me
Not like that, not tonight in the Garden
Things are gonna go our way today
So I spat back
A little this and a little that
Something to say
And this is how he sounded at the end of the day
He go

Oh my twenty thrown down in my fist of rage
And the man to my left just folded down
Johnny doubled up with a Royal Flush
I had three Jacks and a pair of Nines
Well my mind is turning just two shots more
Not much left to play
Then dude walk in, black hat on top, what a mop
I'm lucky it wasn't a county cop, cause I'm just running out of my time

Who's up for game two, what to do?
My wallets getting thin and I just lost my watch last night
Well I got a problem just one answer gotta throw it all down
(And kiss that shit goodbye)
Yeah

That was a crazy (game of poker
I lost it all
But someday I'll be back again
And I'm never to fall
Never to fall)

Who's up for game three?
I can barely see the bourbon drowning next to me
I just lost it all
There's a man sitting next to me
Red with smiling eyes
It's funny, I don't have no money tonight
Oh no

That was a crazy game of poker
I lost it all
But someday I'll be back again
And I'm never to fall
Never to fall

I say now scittily dat dat, baby how 'bout that
Coming out the front and never out the back
And I walk into the bar yesterday
I had something to do, something to say
He walked in behind me and I did not turn around
Till I heard that sound of feet falling on that ground
Look over my shoulder and I saw me a clown
I say now what y'all doing in the Garden tonight

So I asked Johnny what you doing tonight
(He looked at me with a face full of fright
And I said how about a revolution)
He said

I say of, you say a, a revolution, and you say Jah
I say now of, you say a, a revolution, may God be with me

Oh no no no
Yo yo
Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah
So here we are tonight, doing it right, New York City style
You see the music, it got me deep in my gut, I cannot feel it no more
It taken over everything that I got, every blood and every pore
You see for me, the music got it right, the rhythm got me beat tonight
I'd like to give it all, I'd like to give it, would you give it right back?
Say yeah (yeah), say yeah (yeah)
Yeah (yeah), whoa (whoa)
Whoa (whoa), whoa (whoa)
Whoa (whoa), I need a little bit of rhythm from the rhythm

So here I am, playing a game with the Devil himself
He got his eyes peeled straight on me, try to take away my wealth
And that's fine because the dollars don't make any sense to me at all
You can pile them chips high, as high as you want, but you're never gonna have it all
And you can run just as fast as you want to, but you're stuck with yourself till the end
Find yourself running around in circles looking for your oldest friend
You can stack your chips as high as you'd like, but you can never get it all

So when the Devil took my money, man he, he took my gold, he took me
He took my wallet, and he, he took my watch
And that was fine with me because he cannot ever get my soul
Won't ever get it no

So from the front to the back row, let me know
Did you have a good time tonight?
So from the front to the back row, let me know
Did you have a good time tonight?
So rise on up, to that highest mountain top
At the top of the Garden let them know we were here tonight

Don't you ever ever quit, don't ever stop
Don't give a shit, because you got the drop
And you don't ever quit, and you shouldn't ever stop
Because I got the drop
And you all got eyes, two eyes just like mine
Feeling mighty funky, kind of fine
I drank a bottle of whiskey before I came
To the place to see what's the same
I saw my man named Johnny sitting across the table from me
To my left he was a man, you see he had no, no gin
He didn't really think about starting to sin
But see that man to my right, he wasn't feeling mighty nice
He musta looked kinda mad, I think I felt kinda bad
That I'm kinda struggling
I love my honey bunny
I don't know what to say any more
I just gotta get out the front front door

So I asked Johnny what you doin tonight
(He looked at me with a face full of fright
And I said how about a revolution)
And he said

I say of, you say a, a revolution, and you say Jah
I say now of, you say a, a revolution, and you say Jah
I say of, and you say a, a revolution, and you say Jah
I say of, you say a, revolution, may God be with me
Will you watch over us tonight? God be with me
I could sure use just a little more of your life