Gamblers game!

~ Gamblers game ~

Standing on the corner

of Dufferin and main,

or under the bridge on Higgins again;

selling your love

to the highest bidder,

in a gamblers game

where the stakes are

'your life'

for the next trick who buys you

could be the one who's packing

'the' knife,

You wonder how you got there?

You wonder how long you'll stay?

You remember back to that promise

of when you swore,

you'd never make a living this way:

You wonder if you told yourself

that with what you've already been through,

that this would actually be `funny'?

Part-time work for full-time money,

you thought you might as well...

get something out of this too?

Instead of them always,

just 'taking' it from you

Your body has become

so accustomed to this,

that you're hardly even aware

of how often you keep getting stoned

so as not to remember how much

you hate, both doing this or how it happened;

that you got to be there.

Few are so lucky, as the ones who break away,

for most will still be out there

just as long as men will pay!