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Gambling Death Lyrics by Meryl Streek

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Sat in the same seat for 23 years
Had Guinness stains above his lip most of his life
Had a few good records left in various friends' properties
Only ever needed them when the welfare cut him off
He loved the life
And got a thrill from it all
Made to feel like this was a normal life
He lived a life of sorrow and pain
Inflicting others all the way down the branch
8 Guinness a day keeps the sorrows at bay
And then comes back and takes you out like a bullet
Cracking jokes down the awl local
And talking so much bollox
You've forgotten what bollox you've told
What he won and lost became so desperate he considered suicide
People can lose so much and so quickly
But there's also been a clustering of betting shops in town centers
And often they're alleged targeting people with the least money
And the last chance he took was the one that got him
And the last chance he took was the one that got him
Always on the bag and in debt to the worst kind
Poor fucker made the worst bet of his life and it came back to get him
Some six and a half thousand suicides were registered in the UK
That's 686 more deaths than the previous year, an 11.8% increase
So about 1 in 6 people who are working today in Ireland are still living in poverty to escape from poverty
The other big problem that we have today and many people are struggling
I was sad to see you go like the many other souls
Who didn't make it out that rabbit hole
And the last chance he took was the one that got him
And the last chance he took was the one that fucking got him
Made the worst bet of his life
And took him out like that fucking bullet
And the last chance he took was the one that got him
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Meryl Streek

Meryl Streek

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"Gambling Death" appears on "Songs For The Deceased".

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