Crying Onto Baize

from Casino by Casino - Geoff Mann and Clive Nolan

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He's been back! To the crack!
He's tried bribes
Attempted equal cleverness with unknown great outside -
Once he shouted 'Open Sesame!'
(The silliest thing he tried) -

But he didn't get an answer, so he cries onto the baize

He's been back! To the crack!
He's tried whispers,
Pushed through it like notes into a bottle -
Once he shouted 'Help me, someone!'
(Pain was at full throttle) -

But he didn't hear an answer, so he cries onto the baize

One day, on his way
Going back to the crack
He saw all the others
Like him, in their lack
And his heart moved to pity
So he cried for them all
As he sat by the crack
In the glass in the wall
Then he said to the shining
To a hope beyond earning
'If you're there and you hear us,
Please comfort this yearning -
We are many, and lost -
We have gambled on fortune
And we can't meet the cost
I am sorry and wretched
With a heart full of rape
But if someone can hear me -
Please -
Help us all to escape...'

Then he scattered his tokens in the dust on the floor
Tore up the cards and rubbed out his score
He stopped trying to gamble, to buy his way out
Turned his back on the fruit-machines' clatter and spout

But he didn't understand the answer, so he cries
And he cries
Onto the baize

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from Casino, released January 8, 1992

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