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