House Of Cards Lyrics - Carpenter Mary-chapin

I grew up in a house like this, we 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 

I grew up in a town like this, we knew the names of every street 

On the surface it looked so safe, but it was perilous underneath 

That's the place 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, and baby I'm so scared 

You're repeating the past instead of letting it go 

And I don't wanna go back there 

Now we're standing here face to face, afraid to move or else 

I wanna prop up this fragile place, I can't do it all by myself 

'Cause when we dream, it's of the wind, blowing cold and hard 

When we wake up we still live in a house of cards