Chords for The House Always Wins

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[A] Welcome to the Lucky [Ab] 38.
Glad you could [F] make the trip.
The crowning jewel in the [B] oasis of the [A] Vegas strip.
I'm Robert Edwin House, the [Ab] founder of this [F] place of rest, a haven for the wayward.
That's to [E] say, if you can [A] pay the rent.
Understand that if you try to [Ab] stop my plans, you'll [F] come to harm.
I ensure that every bandit [E] standing here has [A] just one arm.
I eschewed the grandeur, built a [Ab] land for all that's [F] free from smarm.
But show your hand, I'll flush you out [E] straight down to [A] the farm.
You blunder in and wonder if a [Ab] bunch of chips can [F] run the strip.
A hundred twits with guns and clips have [B] tried their luck and [A] lost the bet.
I funded it.
I'm one with it.
So [Ab] watch your lip or [F] run the risk, because if you're here to plunder it,
you [Bm] might just end up [Am] under it.
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[Am] _ _ _ [Ab] [F] That check you'll pay the [B] price.
[Am] It'd be safer in the [Ab] desert.
[F] Only dust to judge your [B] sins.
[Am] Those who wager aren't so clever.
[Ab] [F] Because in heaven, well, the [E] house [Am] always wins.
The house [F] always wins.
The [E] house [Am] always wins.
The [Ab] house [F] always wins.
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[A] You want to see the prophets of [Ab] democracy, then go [F] and see them.
Across the street, a bunch of [B] freaks are playing [A] Coliseum.
Honestly, was [E] the world you wanted what you got [F] to see
when you were dropping crosses into [E] boxes behind [A] polling screens?
Was dropping bombs your chosen [Ab] option?
Did you vote [F] for screams?
Was the apocalypse your [B] politician's [A] policy?
Did you put stock in their [Ab] prepostering and [F] prophecy?
A shining future built on [E] squabble-free [A] equality?
That every day you'd get your plate [Ab] of steak and [F] collard greens?
The human race was capable of [E] anything but want [A] and greed.
[E] But now that world is gone and what [Ab] lived on belongs [F] to me.
That freedom you so wanted's now the [E] cost of living [A] comfortably.
Peace is just a product with a focus [Ab] test of [F] billions.
And the test was unsuccessful, so we [E] altered its [A] description.
Your safety now provided by the guys [Ab] at Arobco [F] Services.
For one ongoing price of your [E] unwavering [A] subservience.
Impressed, I raise the stakes, return [Ab] this land to [F] vibrance.
Witness as I raise estates from [E] modern random [Am] violence.
Business is the way to stay the bloody [Ab] hand of [F] tyrants.
Convinced yet?
Sail and ask my [E] buddy, Andrew [A] Ryan.
A grip of iron never [Ab] tires.
Head of [F] ire, lead and wires, neon veins and ancient [E] spires.
Pump the [A] caps and I respire.
The economy is ash, [Ab] I didn't light [F] the fire.
But I can always turn a profit [B] sweeping up [Am] the pyre.
You can hit them, you can fault [Ab] them.
Stack [F] _ _ _ [B] _
[Am] [Em] litters isn't gold.
[Ab] _ [F] Heck, you'll pay the [B] price.
[Am] Life be safer in the desert.
[Ab] [F] Only dust to judge your [B] sins.
But [Am] those who wager aren't so [Ab] clever.
Cause [F] in heaven, will the house [B] always [Am] win?
_ House always [F] win.
_ [E] House [Am] always win.
_ [Ab] House always [F] win.
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[A] I saw the path, I [Ab] preempted those [F] ascending arms.
My gilded heart beats forever [B] on to mend [A] the scars.
I built an ark out of empty [Ab] spas and [F] trendy bars.
Mended the families, [E] befriended with the [A] MCR.
I raised the wasteland from a [Ab] band of little fight [F] clubs.
I handle situations [B] delicately, white [A] gloves.
I'm [E] the chairman of the board, taxing [Ab] on your [F] survival out to murder competition.
Then sit back [Abm] and hike the [Am] price up.
Oh no, a society trapped in a snow [Ab] globe.
No surprises, [F] no raptures and no show.
Undeniably tragic is no [Am] hope.
The Mojave is savage, it's no home.
And I'd like you to manage the whole [G] show.
To the glitz and the [F] glamour and showboat.
Built a patch of a map of a [E] folio.
And officially branded it rap gold.
With just a pair of dice, I came and tamed these [Fm] earthly wastes.
I built a paradise, you might [B] as well desert [Am] your faith.
Long [E] ago when we aimed Armageddon at those pearly [F] gates.
I used that molten gold to rebuild heaven [B] at the 38th.
You [Am] can't hit them, you can't [Ab] _ [F] _ _ _ [B] _
[Am] _ _ _ [Ab] _ [F] fall.
Play the pride, [B]
[Am] be safer in the desert.
[Ab] [F] Only dust to judge your sins.
[B] But [Am] those who wager aren't so clever.
[Ab] Cause [F] in heaven, where the house [B] always [Am] wins.
_ House always [F] wins.
House [E] always [Am] wins.
House [Ab] always [F] wins.
_ [E] Always wins.
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