Forty to One - Peter Wolf

I’m no fool

I knew from the start

There are some who mend

Some who tear apart

I’m no child

I can read a map

You’d have to be dumb

To lose yourself like that

Forty to one

I bet you forty to one

From your fingertips

To your Freudian slips

You’re the first to leave any sinking ship

But don’t think I

Have been remiss

I know the length of the odds

To a bet like this

Forty to one

I bet you forty to one

Playing it safe it ain’t true to my code

So I’ll double the odds

And take the riskier road

Deuces are wild

And I’m betting it all

With nothing to count on

To break my fall

Now I’m not saying

That I can tell

There’s a hope in hell

Of a second throught

And all I know is a girl who runs

Pretty soon becomes

One who can be caught

Forty to one

I bet you forty to one