Risk Lyrics - Judy Collins

Time slips by in the hourglass 

You can hear your name 

Sand slides through the stranger's hand 

As he deals the game. 

All the candles are burning low 

No more cradles and no more snow 

Bet your life on a lucky roll 

Play your queen, you could win your soul, 

Stakes are high you can live or die 

To risk everything. 

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In your goblet the wine is black 

As a moonless night 

Wet your lips before you kiss 

The blazing light 

Bets are off but the game is on, 

Drop the armor you counted on 

All your armies are fled and gone 

Win your king, you can play your pawn 

Take your time, you have just begun 

To risk everything. 

Catch your tears in a golden sieve 

Don't regret what you did to live 

Don't forget that you must forgive 

To risk everything. 

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Through the window you see the storm 

That is gathering, 

Painted gypsies on dappled horses are galloping 

Through the trees in the howling wind 

Down the hills to the river bend 

Shadow ghosts that are blind as night 

Shrieking curses against the night, 

Daring you to come join their flight 

And risk everything. 

Catch your tears in a golden sieve 

Don't regret what you did to live 

Don't forget that you must forgive 

To risk everything. 

There is nothing to hold you now 

To your fault or mine 

Fallen idols and martyred souls 

Are the only kind 

Feet of clay in the emerald skies 

Birds of prey when the dreamer dies 

Perfect crosses perfect your lies 

Burning saints in the flaming skies 

Bet your life every promise dies 

All that's left for you to try 

Is risking everything. 

Catch your tears in a golden sieve 

Don't regret what you did to live 

Don't forget that you must forgive 

To risk everything. 

Oh, Oh 

Catch your tears in a golden sieve 

Don't regret what you did to live 

Don't forget that you must forgive. 

To risk everything. 

Time slips by in the hourglass 

You can hear your name 

Sand slides through the stranger's hand 

As he deals the game. 

All the candles are burning low 

No more cradles and no more snow 

Bet your life on a lucky roll 

Play your queen, you could win your soul, 

Stakes are high you can live or die 

To risk everything. 

Catch your tears in a golden sieve 

Don't regret what you did to live 

Don't forget that you must forgive 

To risk everything.