What are the rules to this game anyway?

She's hot like red pepper, sweet like cherry wine
I'm so glad she love me, love me all the time
She's my little baby, sweet as she can be
All this love she got, do belongs to me
If you hear me howlin', calling on my darlin'

But if nobody loves you
And you feel like dust
On an empty shelve
Just remember
You can love yourself

Often lost and forgotten ... the vagueness and the mud
I've been thinking I'm working too hard but I got something to show
Staring at empty pages - centered around the same old plot
Staring at empty pages - flowing along the ages

I've LOST her now for sure
I won't see her no more
It's gonna be a drag
Misery

And I'll see your Red Label, and I'll raise you one MORE,
And you can pour me a cab, I just can't drink no more,
'Cause it don't douse the flames that are started by dames,
It ain't like asbestos
It don't do nothing but rest us assured,
And substantiate the rumors that you've heard

The only thing that was wrong with him
Was Johnny Walker's Red
He drank ole poison whiskey
'Til it killed him dead.

Our serpents love the whiskey bars
They love the romance of the crime
But didn't I see a neon sign
Fester on your hotel blind

I could not wait to hear the siren song,
The beginning of the end of my happy home.
Sailin', sailing 'cross the devil's sea, oooh, hooo,
too blind in love, too blind to see.

In the land of mass frustration
The judges are sleeping
Counting wooly little lawyers
And grinding their teeth
Outside my sleepless window
The Hollywood sirens are shrieking
While down some search-lit alley runs
Some lost belief

Sneakin through the ALLEY with Sally
Tryin' to keep her outa sight

Sneakin though the alley with Sally
When out comes the wife

My life's in jeopardy
Murdered in cold blood is what I'm gonna be
I ain't been home since Friday night
And now my wife is coming after me

You're the keeper of the cards
Yes I know it gets hard
Keeping the wheels turning
And the wife she keeps the keys
She is so pleased to be
A part of the arrangement

It's hard to be
Yeah, it's hard for me to keep arm's length from my baby
Oh, can't you see
When I'm away from her it sho' nuff drives me crazy

Take me in your arms, come on and rock me, and rock me a little while
Hold me darling, rock me, rock me a little while
We all must feel heartache sometime
Right now, right now, now, I'm feeling mine

Downtown, my darling dime store thief
In the war of independence
Rock 'n Roll rang sweet as victory
Under neon signs a girl was in bloom
And a woman was fading
In a suburban room

They say the neon lights are bright on broadway
They say there's always magic in the air
But when you're walkin' down that street
And you ain't had enough to eat
The glitter rubs right off and you're nowhere

I've seen the bright lights of Memphis
And the Commodore Hotel
And underneath a street lamp I met a Southern belle
Well she took me to the river, where she cast her spell
And in that Southern moonlight, she sang a song so well

Bright lights, big city
Gone to my baby's head
Bright lights, big city
Gone to my baby's head
Well I tried to love the woman
But she never heard a word I said

Train roll on, on down the line,
Won't you please take me far away?
Now I feel the wind blow outside my door,
Means I'm, I'm leaving my woman at home.
Tuesday's gone with the wind.
My baby's gone with the wind again

Concrete is wheeling by
Down at the end of a lullaby
On the Night Train

Once there was a way to get back homeward
Once there was a way to get back home
Sleep pretty darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby

Blue - here is a shell for you
Inside you'll hear a sigh
A foggy lullaby
There is your song from me

I've been so many places in my life and time
I've sung a lot of songs
I've made some bad rhymes
I've acted out my life on stages
With 10, 000 people watching
But we're alone now and I'm singing this song to you

And I admit that I ain't no angel
I admit that I ain't no saint
I'm selfish and I'm cruel but you're blind
If I exorcise my devils
Well my angels may leave too
When they leave they're so hard to find

{I know, I know... "so" is low hanging fruit, but I really love that line, "If I exorcise my devils, Well my angels may leave too} 😉

Come on down to the Mermaid Café and I will
Buy you a bottle of wine
And we'll laugh and toast to nothing and smash our empty glasses down ( 😉 )
Let's have a round for these freaks and these soldiers
A round for these friends of mine
Let's have another round for the bright red devil
Who keeps me in this tourist town

Everywhere is freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity
Tax the rich, feed the poor
'Til there are no rich no more

I want her everywhere and if she's beside me
I know I need never care
But to love her is to need her everywhere
Knowing that love is to share

Everywhere people stare
Each and every day
I can see them laugh at me
And I hear them say
Hey you've got to hide your love away

The girl I used to love
Lives in this yellow house.
Yesterday she passed me by,
She doesn't want to know me now.

Can you see the real me, can you?