The Most Dangerous Gamble

Another older start-of-song I completed recently.

If life is just the road to death,

And if you'll bleed me 'til nothing's left,

Why should I care?

Why should I care?

 

If you're just another pretty word,

Another angel smile, to try to make me yours,

Why should I care?

Why should I care?

 

If princes are really worse than thieves,

Only out to destroy, they're consumed with greed,

And if you might be the same, oh can't you see

Why I might want to keep you away from me?

And I don't want it to be true,

Not of you...

The most dangerous gamble,

You play with your heart,

You play with your life--

You could lose it all.

If my fate was written out before I arrived,

And if "happy ever after" was always a lie,

Why should I care?

Why should I care?

If we're all here just biding our time,

Collecting bruises and scars while we wait to die,

Why should I care?

Why should I care?

The most dangerous gamble,

You play with your heart,

You play with your life--

You could lose it all.

Is there any way to win?

Oh, the chances are so slim.

I want to believe in you...

I want to believe that I can.

But what if I lose?

What if I give it all to you,

And someday you leave me where I stand?

What then?

The most dangerous gamble,

You play with your heart,

You play with your life--

You could lose it all.

And I don't want it to be true,

Not of you...

Author's Note

Originally, instead of "you play with your heart, you play with your life", I had "playing with your heart, playing with your life". Which do you think is better?