Cardboard Castle

Paper crowns.
Cardboard castle.
Rule the world for today.
Let it all wash away.

We’re drinking champagne from a plastic cup,
riding the elevator all the way up.
They tell us we’re royalty, tell us we’re stars,
but we’re just kids playing guitars in the bars.
Fake gold rings and a borrowed car,
taking blurry pictures like we know who we are.
We laugh too loud, we dream too big,
building little kingdoms on a cigarette.

It’s a house of cards,
it’s a house of sand.
Waiting for the wind
to show its hand.

We’re wearing paper crowns in a cardboard castle,
pretending we’re kings without any hassle.
The rain is gonna come and wash it all away,
but we’re gonna rule the world for today.
Paper crowns, cardboard hearts,
dancing like we’re famous in a parking lot.
The morning might tear this kingdom down,
but tonight we shine in our paper crowns.

Paper crowns, paper crowns.
Tonight we shine in our paper crowns.
Paper crowns, paper crowns.
Rule the world till the rain comes down.

We’ve got big plans written on napkins,
half-made promises, full-time laughing.
Someone says, “Someday we’ll be gone,”
then we sing even louder to our favorite song.
Maybe success is a beautiful trick,
a match that burns too bright too quick.
But if the dream falls apart in the morning light,
at least we owned the whole damn night.

It’s a house of cards,
it’s a house of sand.
Waiting for the wind
to show its hand.

We’re wearing paper crowns in a cardboard castle,
pretending we’re kings without any hassle.
The rain is gonna come and wash it all away,
but we’re gonna rule the world for today.
Paper crowns, cardboard hearts,
dancing like we’re famous in a parking lot.
The morning might tear this kingdom down,
but tonight we shine in our paper crowns.

Don’t take it too seriously, don’t hold too tight,
it’s just an illusion in the middle of the night.
We’ll laugh when it crumbles, dance in the debris,
the paper crown was never meant to be.
But for one little moment, under cheap gold light,
we were everything we wanted to be tonight.

We’re wearing paper crowns in a cardboard castle,
pretending we’re kings without any hassle.
The rain is gonna come and wash it all away,
but we’re gonna rule the world for today.
Paper crowns, cardboard hearts,
dancing like we’re famous in a parking lot.
The morning might tear this kingdom down,
but tonight we shine in our paper crowns.

Paper crowns, paper crowns.
Tonight we shine in our paper crowns.
Paper crowns, paper crowns.
Rule the world till the rain comes down.