We only take what we need   In black and white the city bleeds   Love cuts you down to the bone   And walks these streets   With the eyes of a hunter      Bad blood flows from   The father to the son   How red the river runs, yeah      Love was the law   For sinners and saints   Dead man's hand holds   Aces & eights      We're bound by wire, blood and fate   Hanging on to nothing   Aces & eights      We let each other bleed   And watch our bones fall in the dust   You can hear the children howl   It's all they see in the hour of the wolf      Bad blood flows from   The father to the son   How red the river runs, yeah      Love was the law   For sinners and saints   The dead man's hand holds   Aces & eights      We're bound by wire, blood and fate   Hanging on to nothing   Love was the law, sinners and saints      Dead man's hand holds, aces & eights   We're bound by wire, blood and fate   Hanging on to nothing, hey, aces & eights      Daytime, nighttime   Standing in line at the border   I wanna lay down the law   I wanna tell 'em how it should be      Bad blood flows from   The father to the son   How red the river runs, yeah      Love was the law, love was the law   For sinners and saints   The dead man's hand holds aces & eights      We're bound by wire, blood and fate   Hanging on to nothing   Love was the law for sinners and saints      The dead man's hand holds aces & eights   We're bound by wire, blood and fate   Hanging on to nothing      Aces & eights, hey, aces & eights   Hey, aces & eights   Uw, yeah, aces & eights, aces & eights