[Verse 1]
The bar glass wears a scar
From a ring and a hard goodbye
Your name on the receipt
Still folded in my coat inside
I caught your laugh in the fan
When the room went thin and still
Now the piano keeps its pace
Like it knows what I can’t kill
[Pre-Chorus]
And the trumpet leans in slow
Like it’s got the final say
I stare into that red light
And I let the night give way
[Chorus]
Velvet ashes, stay with me
Velvet ashes, stay with me
You burn so sweet
Then you leave the skin
Velvet ashes, stay with me
Velvet ashes, stay with me
I know the cost
But I let you in
[Verse 2]
Your heel mark on the tile
By the stool where you spun away
The bartender set two drinks down
Then took one before first day
I told the moon on the glass
I was done with your cheap sweet spell
But your perfume in my sleeve
Said I still know that road too well
[Pre-Chorus]
And the trumpet leans in slow
Like it’s got the final say
I fold my hands around the dark
And I let the night give way
[Chorus]
Velvet ashes, stay with me
Velvet ashes, stay with me
You burn so sweet
Then you leave the skin
Velvet ashes, stay with me
Velvet ashes, stay with me
I know the cost
But I let you in
[Bridge]
Maybe I wanted the smoke
More than I wanted the fire
Maybe your whole little lie
Was the shape of my desire
So play it low and play it late
Let the room remember me
I’ll wear the ruin like a ring
Till the last of you can’t breathe
[Final Chorus]
Velvet ashes, stay with me
Velvet ashes, stay with me
You burn so sweet
Then you leave the skin
Velvet ashes, stay with me
Velvet ashes, stay with me
I know the cost
But I let you in
[Outro]
Stay with me
Velvet ashes
Stay with me