Elton John - House of Cards lyrics

I hear tell some playboy
Has kidnapped your heart
With his plane and his plans
For games after dark
Just a pain in his pocket
And the price of a room
Where the second hand sheets
Smell of stale perfume

If there's sharks in the water
Don't swim where it's deep
For the taste of success can
Be bitter and sweet
It could be alright that I act like a child
But you'll be the loser when
The jokers run wild

You're just playing the game
But the stakes are too high
What will you do when the chips start to fly
When the deck's stacked against you
And the living gets hard
Oh it's four walls of madness
In this house of cards

Common you call me, but I know there's time
In a handful of diamonds
A heart's hard to find
And your house of cards
Starts weighing you down
Your nights become restless when the
Clubs start to pound