House Of Cards Lyrics

House Of Cards lyrics

You drag this ball and chain

Across the desert plain

You build a house of cards

Around a loveless heart



Wild country in your head

Gone dead, river bed

In the dust you cry, cry, cry

There's no water in the skies



Bone dry, built on sand

A house of cards that will never stand

The doors crash open and the flood comes in

And the flood takes everything



So speak the language slow

Beg some foreign money

You're growing up on dog food

In the land of milk and honey



Shoot for the moon

Live a life out of a window

In your room, all alone

You watch the sky, watch the storm



Coming down

On your house of cards

Drink another drink

And I spill my stories



But when I wake up

I forget my stories

Magnificent in failure

Resplendent in decay



Tall tales of the land and the sea

And the tides

That tore away my house of cards



It's so hot, so hot in here

I can't sleep with you so near

And the time goes by so slow

And the night peels away like gasoline



Shoot for the moon

Live a life out of a window

In your room, all alone



You watch the sky

Watch the storm

Coming down, coming down

On your house of cards