You drag this ball and chain   Across the desert plain   You build a house of cards   Around a loveless heart      Wild country in your head   Gone dead, river bed   In the dust you cry, cry, cry   There's no water in the skies      Bone dry, built on sand   A house of cards that will never stand   The doors crash open and the flood comes in   And the flood takes everything      So speak the language slow   Beg some foreign money   You're growing up on dog food   In the land of milk and honey      Shoot for the moon   Live a life out of a window   In your room, all alone   You watch the sky, watch the storm      Coming down   On your house of cards   Drink another drink   And I spill my stories      But when I wake up   I forget my stories   Magnificent in failure   Resplendent in decay      Tall tales of the land and the sea   And the tides   That tore away my house of cards      It's so hot, so hot in here   I can't sleep with you so near   And the time goes by so slow   And the night peels away like gasoline      Shoot for the moon   Live a life out of a window   In your room, all alone      You watch the sky   Watch the storm   Coming down, coming down   On your house of cards