Son of a wealthy gambler The Mayflower haunts the mother Employed by Calvin Company for the Kansas City [skins] [mine selector in] When you were up in the air Did it make you what you were? You met a man who had a surname That was the same as his [folly] Drained him of his dollars Left him with a tattoo [dog] Getting bread was hopeless dreams On the cusp of eternal defeat In charge of Lion's Gate I'd rather die than play it straight Journeyman who sparkled [above] an easy target Armed with a genre and an overlapping ensemble