1st:

No it was not a pretty sight and I got an awful fright

The night that I was playing the machines.

I rang the bells on a fifty then I thought it would be nifty

If I could make them swing again for me.

Well I watched the credits disappear - through my tears

And I swear - that this would be the last time I would play.

Chorus:

V.L.T.'s, V.L.T.'s they've brought me to my knees.

My credit cards are maxed - "I'm all out of cash!"

Oh I owe - I owe still I can't wait to go-go-go-go

and Play them video lottery machines.

2nd:

I've cashed in all my R.S.P.'s - gone to H.F.C. The cheques that I keep writing, they keep bouncing back to me!

I've lost all and through it all I've heard the devil laugh, Cause ther'll be hockey played in hell before I quit swinging them bells.

The bonus reads 900 and I'm in hot pursuit, Chasing those elusive friggin fruit. It's insanity - I know

I'm blowing all my dough, I curse the day I start to play

Chorus

3rd:

Oh they're meant to be heard and they're meant to be seen. Those government gambling obscene machines

I'm now addicted to them - just like crack or nocotine. I've made a pact with the devil - It's a bargain made in hell

I'll stay there long as I can play them friggin Swinging bells.