[Verse 1]
We built a kingdom on a coffee table
Late nights
Cheap wine
Cable
Laughing at a world that could never tame us
Thought it was stable
Thought it was stable
Then one fight
Two words
Floor shaking
Every little promise
Paper breaking
You said
"This is harder than it has to be"
Walked out with the last good half of me
[Chorus]
This love was a house of cards in my chest
Every breath I take
I feel what’s left
You pulled one truth
All the walls fell down
Now I’m lying in the ruins of that town
I feel incomplete
Like a line half-said
Like a song cut short
Echoes in my head
I remember with you
I forget the rest
You were the home in this house of cards in my chest
[Verse 2]
Tried to be the hero in your bad days
Cape on
Heart raw
Learning your maze
But broken people can’t fix broken people
We were two cracked bells in the same church steeple
Scroll your pictures
They don’t blink back
Just a highlight reel on a faded track
You said
"We’re too young to feel this old"
Guess some stories end before they’re told
[Bridge]
It’s hard to hero when I can’t save myself (can’t save myself)
I keep your hoodie like a secret on my shelf
Every thread a little chapter
Every stain a scene
I talk to it like you can hear what I mean (yeah)
[Chorus]
This love was a house of cards in my chest
Every breath I take
I feel what’s left
You pulled one truth
All the walls fell down
Now I’m lying in the ruins of that town
I feel incomplete
Like a line half-said
Like a song cut short
Echoes in my head
I remember with you
I forget the rest
You were the home in this house of cards in my chest
[Outro]
One day these shaky hands might build again (might build again)
But I still set a place for you now and then
If healing is a story
I’m stuck on this page
Where our house of cards falls
And I walk through the haze