We left the toys out in the yard
  I took my wife and kids and left my home unguarded
  We packed what we could into the car
  No one here knows how it started
  Suddenly everything was just so out of control
  Now I want some answers, mister, I need to know
  I hear all the talk but I don't know what you're sayin'
  But I think I got a good idea of the game that you're playin'
    Roulette, that's the name
  Roulette, that's the game now
  Roulette, I don't know what they're sayin'
  Roulette, everybody's playin'
    I grew up here on this street
  Where nothin' moves, just a strange breeze
  In a town full of worthless memories
  There's a shadow in my backyard
  I've got a house full of things that I can't touch
  Well all those things won't do me much good now
  I was a fireman out at Riker's, I did my job
  Mister, I've been cheated, I feel like I've been robbed
  I'm the big expendable, my life's just canceled null and void
  Well what you gonna do about your new boy
    Roulette, you're playin' with my life
  Roulette, with my kids and my wife
  Roulette, every day the stakes get bigger
  Roulette, a different finger on the trigger
    Down by the river that talks
  The night speaks in searchlights
  And shortwave radios squawk
  The police patrol the streets
  But I've left behind the man I used to be
  Everything he believed and all that belonged to me
  I tried to find my way out to somewhere where I thought it'd be safe
  They stopped me at the roadblock they put up on the interstate
  They put me in detention but I broke loose and then I ran
  They said they want to ask me a few questions but I think they had other plans
  Now I don't know who to trust and I don't know what I can believe
  They say they want to help me but with the stuff they keep on sayin'
  I think those guys just wanna keep on playin'
    Roulette, with my life
  Roulette, with my kids and my wife
  Roulette, the bullet's in the chamber
  Roulette, who's the unlucky stranger
  Roulette, surprise, you're dead
  Roulette, the gun's to your head
  Roulette, the bullet's spinning in the chamber
  Roulette, pull the trigger, feel the click
  No further danger