Aces Wild (Painted Black Suite)

Listen to Aces Wild by Richard Charles Stevens (Painted Black Suite)

Listen to Paint It Black by Dance With The Dead

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Luck she be a lady on this night
Her royal flush
My dangerous delight

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Luck she be a lady on this night
Her royal flush
My dangerous delight

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From sunrise
Through the dead of night
The staircase winds to my delight
The ties of bind bid sweet release
Each step a key to destiny
Awakened from the skin I shed
To make a mound to rest my head
In bosom of the only she
Who ever felt like home to me
So many souls within her keep
No more charmed hold of essence steeped
Entreating she to set a scene seen fleetingly in treasured dreams
Leisured to proceed am I
With heedful eye for feeder line
Need not such sight anaesthetise
For mine is not to reason why
Mine is not to reason why
Mine is not to reason why
Mine is not to reason why
Reason why
Reason why

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All in at the river blind
To play the table one more time
Calling
Raising
All appraising
Poker face unchanging
Aces wild
Aces wild
Luck she be a lady on this night
Her royal flush
My dangerous delight
Luck she be a lady on this night
Her royal flush
My dangerous delight

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Would bet on black to taste her red
To trace the tracks of tears she bled
Adhere to years of retrospect
That led me here
In fever sped

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Her heaving breast
A place to rest my head
For all eternity
Yet she need never hear a single word from me
To see the gift of ceaseless love returned by me
To see the gift of ceaseless love returned by me
Returned by me

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All in at the river blind
To play the table one more time
Calling
Raising
All appraising
Poker face unchanging
Aces wild
Poker face unchanging
Aces wild
Luck she be a lady on this night
Her royal flush
My dangerous delight
Her royal flush
My dangerous delight
Her royal flush
My dangerous delight

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I yearn to seep within cracks of her skin
Double back to enrapture each vein underpinned
To amaze in the stature of one so unhinged
From the framework of secrets and lies
From the framework of secrets and lies
From the framework of secrets and lies
To amaze in the stature of one so unhinged
From the framework of secrets and lies

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Her eyes relay no cheap mistruth
Her heart bleeds grape of sweet vermouth
Confiding seeds of deepest root
No wise man would deny

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All of me
Is all I have to give
And I would give it all to see her live her life the way a reawakened child might play
Calling
Raising
All appraising
Face unchanging
Brave and wild
I would gamely fade to black
To hang my hat upon her fragrant smile

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As has been the way
For every aeon we reprise

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All in at the river blind
To see the lady bathed in white
For she has claimed a place inside
This liberated heart of mine
Falling
Rising
Tantalizing every part of me inclined
To venerate a masterpiece
Defined
To braid each waking artery in twine
As we reprise our timeless maiden flight

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All in at the river blind
To play the table one more time
Calling
Raising
All appraising
Poker face unchanging
Aces wild
Luck she be a lady on this night
Her royal flush
My dangerous delight

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