Thursday, August 31, 2006

Viva Las Vegas! (part 1)

This song isn't my favorite from the movie (Elvis's rendition of The Eyes of Texas can't be beat), but it does accurately convey my current mood.

(words & music by doc pomus and mort shuman)

Bright light city gonna set my soul
Gonna set my soul on fire
Got a whole lot of money thats ready to burn,
So get those stakes up higher
Theres a thousand pretty women waitin out there
And theyre all livin devil may care
And Im just the devil with love to spare
Viva las vegas, viva las vegas

How I wish that there were more
Than the twenty-four hours in the day
cause even if there were forty more
I wouldnt sleep a minute away
Oh, theres black jack and poker and the roulette wheel
A fortune won and lost on evry deal
All you needs a strong heart and a nerve of steel
Viva las vegas, viva las vegas

Viva las vegas with you neon flashin
And your one armbandits crashin
All those hopes down the drain
Viva las vegas turnin day into nighttime
Turnin night into daytime
If you see it once
You'll never be the same again

I'm gonna keep on the run
I'm gonna have me some fun
If it costs me my very last dime
If I wind up broke up well
I'll always remember that I had a swingin time
I'm gonna give it ev'rything Ive got
Lady luck please let the dice stay hot
Let me shout a seven with ev'ry shot
Viva las vegas, viva las vegas,
Viva, viva las vegas

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