"In Rainbows" was released October 10, 2007.
The 8th song on the album is "House of Cards".
The lyrics are shown below with each word numbered, highlighting the position the phrase 'house of cards' appears each time throughout the lyrics.
The phrase, 'house of cards' is sung 26, 36, 75 and 85 words into the song.
26 + 36 + 75 + 85 = 222
'House of Cards' = 134 (Ordinal)
222 + 134 = 356
On September 29, 2008 following the collapse of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 777.68 points, the largest single day point loss in it's history.
From the release of In Rainbows (October 10, 2007) to the Dow Jones crash (September 29, 2008) is a span of 356 days.
653 (the reflection of 356) is the 119th prime number.
The Icelandic banking system collapsed (January 26, 2009) 119 days after the Dow Jones crash of September 29, 2008.
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