[Verse 1]
You walked in
Last call for sinners
Black lace
Red wine on your lips
Every eye turned
Mine stopped breathing
Like I’d stepped off the eclipse
You laughed
Said you don’t do forever
I said
“I don’t do the sun”
Two lost causes in a backroom corner
Sharing secrets
Sharing blood
[Chorus]
Let me give you a clue
I would rather have a stake in my heart
Than exist without you
Drive it in
Drive it through the dark
If I’m cursed
Let the curse be you
I would rather have a stake in my heart
Than exist without you
(than exist without you)
[Verse 2]
We dance close in the after-hours silence
Your pulse loud against my chest
You say love feels like a slow collision
I say it feels like holy death
Your eyes dare me
“Would you really risk it?”
I grin
Teeth sharp in the gloom (oh yeah)
“Name the ruin
I’ll go deeper
Every night
I’ll choose this doom”
[Chorus]
Let me give you a clue
I would rather have a stake in my heart
Than exist without you
Drive it in
Drive it through the dark
If I’m cursed
Let the curse be you
I would rather have a stake in my heart
Than exist without you
(than exist without you)
[Bridge]
If the morning comes
And it burns us clean
I will hold your hand through the screaming light
If the heavens judge what we’ve done tonight
I will stand accused
And I won’t fight (hey!)
[Chorus]
Let me give you a clue
I would rather have a stake in my heart
Than exist without you
Drive it in
Drive it through the dark
If I’m cursed
Let the curse be you
I would rather have a stake in my heart
Than exist without you
[Outro]
So raise your glass to the doomed and devoted
One last kiss in the funeral room
If I turn to dust in your arms this evening
Know I chose every ounce of you