Track Insight / Lyrics
Coffee black like the dealer's shoes
Regulars nursing their morning blues
Felt patterns stuck on a polyester vest
Eight-hour shift put the cards to rest
House odds rising with the steam
Chips on the counter, dice in the air
First step toward horizon cutting mist bare
Cold deck warms where the fingers trace
Lady Luck leaves her lipstick trace
Chips on the counter, we all play there
Cocktail tray clicks on laminate wood
Pit boss watches where the high rollers stood
Comp meals waiting under heat lamps' glow
Keno tickets stuffed in a cook's apron low
Morning crew cashes their graveyard pay
Chips on the counter, dice in the air
First step toward horizon cutting mist bare
Cold deck warms where the fingers trace
Lady Luck leaves her lipstick trace
Chips on the counter, we all play there
Roulette wheel spins in a line cook's dream
Red thirty-two on a short-order scheme
Bacon strips laid like a straight flush draw
Hash browns scattered by probability law
Bell rings loud when the order's up
Chips on the counter, dice in the air
First step toward horizon cutting mist bare
Cold deck warms where the fingers trace
Lady Luck leaves her lipstick trace
Chips on the counter, we all play there
Surveillance eyes on the parking lot
Busboy counts tips in a styrofoam pot
Slot machine chimes from a phone on vibrate
Dream of a jackpot on a breakfast plate
Horizon burns through the kitchen haze
Two worlds meet at the pass-through window
One deals damage, one deals the mend-o
Cards get mucked and the eggs get flipped
Same hands shuffle, same wrists get stiffed
Mist lifts slow on the boulevard
Fresh deck cracked for the daytime crowd
Regular laughs, says the quiet's loud
Wins and losses taste like rye toast butter
Another shift done, another shuffleutter
Chips cashed in for a clean white shirt
Chips on the counter, dice in the air
First step toward horizon cutting mist bare
Cold deck warms where the fingers trace
Lady Luck leaves her lipstick trace
Chips on the counter, we all play there
Chips on the counter, we all play there
Grease pops low, neon fades slow
House always knows which way winds blow