i live my life in chains
got my hands in chains
but I can't stick with the cards I
got with a deal like this
i must insist that a girl's got more to do

than be the way you think a woman
should
i've taken it into my own hands
in this man's land
i can understand why I'm [bad word] had enough of stuff
and now it's time to think about me

and you can easily gamble your
life away
second after second and a day by day
you play the game or you walk away
it's a new turn on a blue day
and a cool deal of life for me
and it's all good

i know that the spades are the swords
of a soldier
i know that the clubs are weapons
of war
i know that diamonds mean money
for this art
but that's not the shape of my heart

i've always played it safe
nothing's ever safe
give me the courage to back my own
convictions
every decision I made
i paid it back and more
i turn the cards and let them
fall to me
'couse i don't need to play on with the
hand that they have given me
i give it back 'cuz it's not the way it
has to be

and you can easily gamble your
life away
second after second and a day by day
you play the game or you walk away
it's a new turn on a blue day
and a cool deal of life for me
and it's all good

i know that the spades are the swords
of a soldier
i know that the clubs are weapons
of war
i know that diamonds mean money
for this art
but that's not the shape of my heart