Velvet & Venom

(Intro — breathy, pulled)

Your shadow slides across my kitchen floor,

Like stained glass promises I can’t ignore.

(Verse 1)

You come in satin, come in slow, like a rumor at midnight,

Pouring sugar in the silence, neon bleeding through the blinds.

We set the slow burn, candlelit confessions on the sill,

Two strangers in the mirror — same bad habits, same cheap thrill.

Your laugh tastes like lightning, your smile tastes like sin,

I trace the bruise of yesterday where your fingertips have been.

(Pre-Chorus)

We both know the damage, we both sign in blood,

Still every crooked promise tastes like love.

(Chorus — wide, aching)

Velvet and venom, honey on the blade,

We’re beautiful poison every time we trade.

Velvet and venom, warm and cruel, and true —

You pull me under, and I pull you through.

(Verse 2)

You carry winter in your pockets, winter in your hands,

I keep a map of wreckage where our reckless love lands.

We swap apologies like cigarettes at dawn,

Burn the pages of the past, then wonder why we’re drawn.

Your voice is a confession that I memorize by heart,

We’re both a little broken, both a little sharp.

(Pre-Chorus)

We could walk away clean, we could walk away whole,

But we learn to crave the undertow.

(Chorus — fuller)

Velvet and venom, honey on the blade,

We’re beautiful poison every time we trade.

Velvet and venom, warm and cruel, and true —

You pull me under, and I pull you through.

(Bridge — intimate, urgent)

Tell me it’s madness, tell me it’s fate,

We love like we’re running from something we can’t name.

I keep your letters in a box that won’t close,

You keep my ghosts in pockets that you won’t expose.

We’re a midnight highway with no end in sight,

Soft as a sin beneath the city light.

(Breakdown — whispered then swelling)

If you’re the flame, then I’m the moth,

If you’re the wound, I’m the lost and soft.

If we’re both the cure and the disease,

Then stay — let the sickness be our peace.

(Chorus — last, soaring)

Velvet and venom, honey on the blade,

We’re beautiful poison every time we trade.

Velvet and venom, warm and cruel, and true —

You pull me under, and I pull you through.

(Outro — fragile, lingering)

So keep your velvet, keep your venom close,

We’re a crowded silence nobody knows.

Two hearts in a crooked frame, beating the same wrong tune —

Velvet and venom, under this ruined moon