Everybody Pays Lyrics - Shangri-la - Mark Knopfler

i got shot off my horse 

so what? i'm up again 

and playing 

in one of these 

big saloons on main 

you can come up here 

take a look 

around these sinners' dens 

you're only ever going to find 

one or two real games 

nobody's driving 

me underground 

not yet anyway 

but either on the strip 

or on the edge of town 

everybody pays 

everybody pays to play 

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yeah, you ought to stay 

right where you are 

in sawdust land 

it's probably the 

safest place to be 

with your 

greasy little pork pies 

and your shoestring hands 

it makes 

no difference to me 

all those directions 

which we never took 

to go our different ways 

who went and wrote 

the oldest story in the book? 

everybody pays 

everybody pays to play 

Photos 

curl up inside 

a boxcar dream 

and disappear 

with a couple 

low roller friends 

you were never one 

for trouble 

so get out of here 

i knew the game 

was dangerous back then 

but nobody's breezing 

through these swinging doors 

just ups and walks away 

everybody has to leave 

some blood here on the floor 

everybody pays 

everybody pays to play