House of Cards Lyrics

My little house is falling down

Built from glue and cards and

Quarters I found

And you had the window room

And we slept outside in June

And swam with alligators we thought were crocodiles

We took them home

They lived in the moat

And we sailed beside them in our tangerine peel boat

We lived in diamonds

I woke up with a king in my bed

We left the spades to all the jokers

Left the rooms to sleep in clovers

Left the deuces on the table

'Til our hearts were ready and able

Then it all fell down

Picking up will not be easy, cards upon the ground

No end to the sidewalk

And the drawings in yellow chalk

And my lousy depiction of

A flying red tailed hawk

And when you laughed at me

I drew over your tree

But the only thing

That I could draw

Was our falling house of cards

We lived in diamonds

I woke up with a king in my bed

We left the spades to all the jokers

Left the rooms to sleep in clovers

Left the deuces on the table

'Til our hearts were ready and able

Then it all fell down

Picking up will not be easy

cards upon the ground