Mary Chapin Carpenter - House of Cards lyrics

[Verse] I grew up in a house like this You knew the groan of every stair All the walls seemed to listen in All the years seemed to take up air When you dreamed it was of the wind Blowing cold and hard In those dreams you thought You lived in a house of cards And I grew up in a town like this You knew the names of every street On the surface it looked so safe But it was perilous underneath That's the place where you shoved Your doubts and hid your ugly scars God forbid if word got out About your house of cards And now I feel the wind about to blow Baby I'm so scared We're repeating the past Instead of letting it go And I don't want to go back there Now we're standing here face to face Afraid to move or else I want to prop up this fragile place But I can't do it all by myself Because when we dream it's of the wind Blowing cold and hard When we wake up we still live In a house of cards When we dream it's of the wind Blowing cold and hard When we wake up we still live in a house of cards