WILDCARD

Wildcard Wildcard Trop tard, baby (Too late, baby) They already dealt me wrong Wildcard Wildcard Now the table learns What it left out Black suit, white grin, wrong girl in the right chair Room full of sharks went quiet when I showed teeth They wrote odds for a girl who would fold clean I came from the margin where the cards turn mean Queen on the velvet, king in the glass Dealer got nervous when I counted too fast I do not cheat, I read tremors in hands Little wrist twitch, little lie in the laugh They called me random, that was lazy math Just a name for a pattern they never could graph Every safe little box had a trick in the lid Every exit kept count of the panic it hid Pas de hasard, no chance in the room (No randomness, no chance in the room) I was raised where the floor learns to move If they wanted calm, they invited wrong I make the quiet part sing along I am not chaos I am what they missed The unpaid variable Under the trick Wildcard They dealt me in Then blamed the deck When the table flipped Wildcard Call me luck When your perfect little numbers Start losing their grip I do not break fate I make fate confess Je suis la faille (I am the flaw) In the rules you bless Wildcard They dealt me in Then blamed the deck When the table flipped Watch the hand Watch the grin Watch the room Let me in Trop tard (Too late) Too sharp One blink Black card They love a monster if the monster stays framed Love the wild girl when the wild stays tame Put a ribbon on the risk, call it style, call it scene Then panic when the teeth interrupt the magazine Mon cher, I wore polite like a weapon (My dear, I wore polite like a weapon) Smile at the lock while I study the mechanism Soft voice, hard proof, heels on the wire I can smell fresh paint on an old empire They bet on fear, I bet on timing They bet on smoke, I bet on shining They bet I would beg for a seat at the show I bought the floor and made the ceiling drop low Every witness had a price, every camera had a side Every clean little story kept a body out of sight So I stepped through the margin where the ink went thin Not because I was magic, because I listened I am not lucky I am not blind I am the answer They failed to design Wildcard They dealt me in Then blamed the deck When the table flipped Wildcard Call me luck When your perfect little numbers Start losing their grip I do not break fate I make fate confess Je suis la faille (I am the flaw) In the rules you bless Wildcard They dealt me in Then blamed the deck When the table flipped Maybe the game was not broken Maybe it worked like a prayer For everyone already written Into the winner's chair Maybe the word unpredictable Means you did not look twice Maybe the girl you called danger Was the bill for your design I do not want your crown Crowns sit still and get sold I want the crack in the system Where the living thing grows Marked deck Soft grin Back door I am in House lights Hands sweat Wrong girl Safe bet Un, deux (One, two) Move fast Trois, quatre (Three, four) Last laugh Wildcard They dealt me in Then blamed the deck When the table flipped Wildcard Call me luck When your perfect little numbers Start losing their grip I do not break fate I make fate confess Je suis la faille (I am the flaw) In the rules you bless Wildcard They dealt me in Then blamed the deck When the table flipped Wildcard Not random, not grace Just the face you forgot When you priced the whole place Wildcard Trop tard, baby (Too late, baby) I already changed the game Wildcard They dealt me in Then blamed the deck When I learned how to live