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These song lyrics are a work of fiction written for poetry purposes. There are no current music attached to the lyrics. The fictional character Lightning Fast Eddie and the entire song Deck of Cards (Game of Chance) is entirely fictional created randomly in exercise #1 and in a freewriting in exercise #2 during Poetry Appreciation Month. Any resemblance to any other work is purely coincidental.
I'm removing a line that I don't like.
You sent me a card each year.
With the remaining words created in the freewriting exercise. I'll bring everything else together into a long initial rough draft divided into verses, chorus, and bridges. It's long—a 4 verse song— but it's just a rough draft.
Working Title of hard rock song: "Deck of Cards (Game of Chance)"
By Ken Wickham (for fictional character Lightning Fast Eddie™) © 2021 All rights reserved.
Verse 1
What's left to do? I left it all behind.
It's all left unsaid. Left that town far behind.
Left you in my dust.
Left with nothing but the cards that I've been dealt.
Chorus
When I play my cards, I win.
Shuffling cards is a game of chance.
In my hand a deck of cards for the game.
My ace card is ready, I'm ready to play.
Verse 2
Despised theft, not a chance, never trustin' a troll.
Blast that one on his ass. Never good, never real.
Outlast the stealer of souls—an outcast.
Blew it all very fast, on the last one to stare.
Chorus
When I play my cards, I win.
Shuffling cards is a game of chance.
In my hand a deck of cards for the game.
My ace card is ready, I'm ready to play.
Bridge
The past moments—past times.
The past good times and rides.
In a past life, I've flown.
It's past time for a change.
Verse 3
Never a moment to spare.
Never low, never there.
We can never reach the other side of the world.
We never left our cards from our past life.
Chorus
When I play my cards, I win.
Shuffling cards is a game of chance.
In my hand a deck of cards for the game.
My ace card is ready, I'm ready to play.
Bridge
Whoever left a heart once blind, past times unaware.
In one regard, the past is the future, never left answered prayer.
Guard the chance of one moment.
Verse 4
Ever present, never there.
However, you dare to share.
Whenever we reach for that moment,
a moment to care.
Chorus
When I play my cards, I win.
Shuffling cards is a game of chance.
In my hand a deck of cards for the game.
My ace card is ready, I'm ready to play.
The silence raises the night from the first to the last.
