[Intro] (whispered) Don't breathe Don't move It's already leaning [Verse 1] You built it beautifully Card by card, room by room A little place for you and me With nowhere left to move Everybody says we're lucky Everybody says we're fine But I can hear the floorboards talking Every time you cross the line [Pre-Chorus] One wrong word One wrong touch One more secret Is too much I can feel it Underneath Something waiting For release [Chorus] We're living in a house of cards And every little thing can bring it down You hold me like you mean it While the ceiling's falling out We're living in a house of cards I can hear the whole thing breathing in the dark If we're going to lose each other Don't pretend we didn't see the spark [Post-Chorus] Don't shake the table Don't shake the table We're already close enough Don't shake the table Don't shake the table One more move is one too much [Verse 2] There's a photograph face-down On the dresser by the bed You never asked me why I kept it I never told you who was dead The hallway light keeps flickering Like somebody's walking past But every door is locked from inside And every shadow moves too fast [Pre-Chorus] One more lie One more night One more reason To stay quiet I can feel it In the walls Something's waiting For it all to fall [Chorus] We're living in a house of cards And every little truth can bring it down You tell me that you love me Like you're trying to drown the sound We're living in a house of cards And I don't know which piece I should remove If I take away the first one Would there be anything left of you? [Bridge] (beat drops) Don't look at me I know what you're thinking Don't say it If you say it We can't take it back The bass begins to pulse Maybe we've been holding The wrong things together Maybe falling Was the only way out [Breakdown] One card Two cards Three The whole room Starts to breathe One card Two cards Three Don't wake What's underneath [Final Chorus] We're living in a house of cards And now I want to watch it all come down No more careful little movements No more pretending we're safe now We're living in a house of cards Let the pieces scatter where they fall If there's nothing underneath us Maybe there was never anything at all And when the last card hits the floor And the silence fills the room I'll finally know what you were hiding And you'll finally know I knew [Outro] (softly) Don't rebuild it Leave it there Let the empty room Remember us The house is gone But the cards Are everywhere
