Velvet Funeral

Verse 1)

Candles melt like dying saints

Silver smoke across your face

Midnight hymns and shattered glass

We were never built to last

Your shadow dances on cathedral walls

Like a ghost that heaven never called

Black lace hands around my throat

Every word you whisper pulls me close

(Pre-Chorus)

And the moon hangs low tonight

Like a curse above our lives

(Chorus)

We’re a velvet funeral

Beautiful and cruel

Dead roses in our hair

Like we never even cared

Dance with me through fading light

Through the graveyard of our minds

If love is just a requiem

Then bury me with it

(Verse 2)

Crimson wine and nicotine

You taste like ruined royalty

Broken halos, crooked crowns

We wear them when the sun goes down

The church bells cry somewhere below

For all the lost kids no one chose

And every heartbeat feels possessed

Like death itself lives in my chest

(Pre-Chorus)

And your voice cuts through the dark

Like a match against my heart

(Chorus)

We’re a velvet funeral

Beautiful and cruel

Dead roses in our hair

Like we never even cared

Dance with me through fading light

Through the graveyard of our minds

If love is just a requiem

Then bury me with it

(Bridge)

Oh—

Hear the angels choking on our names

Oh—

Nothing holy ever stays

(Final Chorus)

We’re a velvet funeral

Cold lips, ritual

Black veins beneath the skin

Let the night come flooding in

And when the world forgets our souls

We’ll haunt these empty streets alone

If heaven shuts its gates again

We’ll make a home in the endlessness