Ca từ trong "Cards" nói lên mong muốn đối phương sẽ thể hiện tình cảm và đưa câu trả lời rõ ràng cho mối quan hệ này. Nhân vật chính muốn người kia mau chóng đưa ra "quân bài" tiếp theo, đừng chỉ dùng lời nói mà hãy hành động, đừng bắt cô nàng phải trông ngóng và đoán mò. Bài hát không chỉ nói lên khao khát có được tình yêu chân thành, mà còn khuyến khích người nghe hãy đề cao giá trị của bản thân và mạnh dạn buông bỏ nếu như người kia không xứng đánh với tình cảm mình trao. "Cards" là một bản nhạc jazz funk kết hợp new jack swing đầy bắt tai, nằm vị trí đầu tiên trong album phòng thu thứ năm "Vie" của nữ nghệ sĩ Doja Cat được phát hành vào ngày 26 tháng 9 năm 2025.


A little more back and forth

A little more catch and throw, baby

The more we can clear this smoke

A little further I'll go

Maybe in time, we'll know

Maybe I'll fall in love, baby

Maybe we'll win some hearts

Gotta just play your cards

Play your cards (Right)

Play your cards (Right)

Play your cards (Right)

Play your cards (Right)

Baby, be good to me, I don't care who's with me

Calling me "mon chérie", try to get in my hosiery

If you got notes for me, I ain't no employee

Give me that two for three or you'll be losing me

If you catch it, I'll be on the floor

Can you pull my body off the bar?

A little more back and forth

A little more catch and throw, baby

The more we can clear the smoke

A little further I'll go

Maybe in time, we'll know

Maybe I'll fall in love, baby

Maybe we'll win some hearts

Baby, just play your cards

Play your cards (Right)

Play your cards (Right)

Play your cards (Right)

Play your cards (Right)

Hey there, stranger, take you where you want, you can say, "Where, stranger?"

If you play fair, stranger, it's all you could eat while I lay there, stranger

Girls turned on by danger, I'm turned on when he run that bank up

He's turned on when I fill this tank up

No bra, fresh beat, watch him scrunch his face up

I'm enough to wait for, move too quick and you off the roster

Break bread, ni**a, don't twirl the pasta

Hand on my a*s, that'll stir the block up

I ain't just some girl on your notch and not many men make me nervous a lot

Might splurge in the yacht, I'm tryna figure out if he deserve it or not

You got a way with your words so they flock

Playing all your cards right first and it's hot

Show me that you got the nerve and the chops

Maybe then, you could get the permanent spot

A little more back and forth

A little more catch and throw, baby

The more we can clear the smoke

A little further I'll go

Maybe in time we'll know

Maybe I'll fall in love, baby

Maybe we'll win some hearts

Baby, just play your cards

Play your cards (Right)

Play your cards (Right)

Play your cards (Right)

Play your cards (Right)

Dum-da-da-dum, yeah, dum-da-da-dum-da-da

Dum-da-da-dum, yeah, dum-da-da-dum-da-da

Dum-da-da-dum, yeah, dum-da-da-dum-da-da

Dum-da-da-dum, yeah, dum-da-da-dum-da-da