Counting Cards (Live from Athens Georgia)

Picture me counting cards, dear

Pick any kind you like

Picture them colored red, dear

Black will hold back the light

From the stars in our eyes are just diamonds, broke

Jokes we tell to laugh, dear

Laugh to hold back the pain

Pain is in the mind, dear

Stars are much the same

Gone in the time

It takes the light to reach

In time you'll find we're blind to the things

We don't believe

Picture us out in Vegas

Counting bills before a show

Spending 'em from New Orleans

Where we spent the week before

And the stars in our eyes

Are the lights from the flash

Pictures of us in black, dear

Rolling on the red

Carpets laid on concrete

Counting billboards where we've read

That the stars in our minds

Shine bright in the dark

Like diamonds, diamonds

And hearts in our cards and our silver strung guitars say

Hear me when I call, hear me when I come in late

You're wide awake, "I'm sorry" is not enough

I'm sorry I'm not enough to stay

Faded by, in time with the back of your bed

Am I that lever you take

That lever you hold?

Faded by, in time with the back of your head

Am I that levy you break

That levy you hold?

Paint me red, paint me red

Picture that, picture that

Picture us and God shaking hands just because we can

Like DMC we run this shit

Run DMC what's tricky to get we got

Watch me murder this

Watch me murder this

Planes fly due west, and plain in my view

Is the blame for the fault in our stars

Counting cards in the dark

We sit and talk, bleeding it out

Believing that all our stars are just diamonds

And hearts in our cards and our silver strung guitars say

Hear me when I call, hear me when I come in late

You're wide awake, "I'm sorry" is not enough

I'm sorry I'm not enough to stay

Faded by, in time with the back of your bed

Am I that lever you take, that lever you hold?