Is the famous chorus of “The Gambler”, which you have likely heardīefore. And whereas the wording is indeed applicable to poker, ultimately So upon handing the bottle to the gambler, he drinks all of the booze contained therein. Then he solicits the narrator for a cigarette also. And upon sparking it he gets quiet, with a blank expression covering his face. That’s when he goes off to give him the advice he promised, which once again is based on allusions to the game of poker. Luck. So he offers to give him “some advice” on how to overcome thisĭisposition in exchange for some of the whiskey the singer has in his Is a poker-related metaphor pointing to the idea that he’s down on his Just by ‘reading his face’, he can tell that the latter is ‘out of aces’. This
Himself is clearly older and wiser than the narrator. And accordingly,
