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