Key: F
Introduction: F C G Am
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Easy credit, no money down
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That's the way that we built this town
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The banker's ledger, we watched it rise
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A house of cards and a pack of lies
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A house of cards and a pack of lies
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Rung by rung they raised the stakes
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You bend the rules and the batter breaks
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We all get wealthy, but will we ever get wise
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To the house of cards and a pack of lies
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A house of cards and a pack of lies
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They sold you plastic and took your ace
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The suits and ties and the joker's face
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And now there's nowhere left to hide
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Than a house of cards and a pack of lies
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A house of cards and a pack of lies
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The times were easy, we did the deal
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We placed out bets, but they spun the wheel
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And we should have known there was no prize
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But a house of cards and a pack of lies
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A house of cards and a pack of lies
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Smoke and mirrors, the market crash
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We burnt it down to stone and ash
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We lit the fires of our own demise
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In the house of cards and a pack of lies
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In the house of cards and a pack of lies
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We bought that dream and we sold it on
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But it ain't worth nothing, now the money's gone
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The only shelter that credit buys
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Is a house of cards and a pack of lies
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A house of cards and a pack of lies