
Date of issue: 18.02.1990
Record label: Beggars Banquet
Song language: English
House of Cards |
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 |
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