a song about playing poker and being an idiot.

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written and recorded summer 2003. the verse is structured mostly around rhyme scheme and makes very little sense. but it flows nicely. and the chorus almost makes you think i'm singing about something coherent.

i always feel so unprepared
hallways kneel to some despair
and then we twist and bend
we kissed and then
insisted in the midst of it
that we'd stay alive
yeah but ok we lied
so today we'll ride
and besides we tried

so to start again seems harder than
just to part and then to my heart's chargrin
just give in and leave
just living naieve
just a bob and weave you will not believe
how easy it seems
just to leave these extremes of emotion and so
make a motion to go

becuase you're aces high you got a full house
you called my bluff
i'll raise the stakes before you pull out
i'll ante up
lay em down i don't care
ain't got nothing but a pair of fools

and each morning's like
a warning light
and the story's like
a forty right to your skull you trip
how wonderful is this
the utter dullness
i'm prolly full of it but if you face the facts
you got one ace one jack
with the hand you hold
if i were you i'd fold

because you're aces high you got a full house
you called my bluff
i'll raise the stakes before you pull out
i'll ante up
lay em down i don't care
ain't got nothing but a pair
ain't got nothing but a pair of fools

now its the afternoon the past it looms
and i have to soon make it past my room
but inside is my grave
i see you tried to save
me and my pride this way and how wide its made
like its built for two
the flowers wilt for you
i guess it killed them too
to see our guilt come through

now as the sun it sets upon our young regrets
so then erase your debts so you can place your bets
and i'll be honest
just smile get on this
you're holding the same hand that jon is
so who really cares
neither of us came prepared
so dont be scared
the odds have vanished into thin air
aces high