only a house of cards

Folly had me follow her, and to her games my life I gave

Little did I know that the dead were there, and her guests are in the depths of the grave...

I was the king of my castle, my tassle swinging from my horns

but when the delusional king dies, why is it no one mourns

A pawn upon a throne shown hearts of razor blades

Lover, hater, traitor...a jack of all trades

Spades are very useful when one digs his own hole

Diamonds in the sky getting clubbed within my soul

Roll the dice twice amongst the beautiful faces

A joker playing solitaire trumps the two-faced aces

Place a rook by a brook with a queen and a rose

and you'll see heart, mind, body and soul...fall like dominoes

Ready, aim, fire...a 21-gun salute

The 5-card stud is dead read the note in his funeral suit

Cry one name within this game, the broken joker warns...

One Christ, one King, one everything...bow down to the crown of thorns

for the soul stirs embers into life's charred shards

This world is not your home, my child...only a house of cards...

"Checkmate, mate...your king has fallen down

Kneel to your master as I hold aloft the crown"

Cellmate, wait...these are but games of worldly prison

You'll soon be back to your flames, for you see...my King...is risen