VELVET CHAINS

I see you in shadows when I close my eyes

You’re the heaven I hate, the hell I disguise

Wrapped in silk and cyanide…

Yeah

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My mind’s a room with no light, no exits

You walk through it like a ghost — so precious

Every thought of you a blade to the chest

Got your name carved deep where my soul won’t rest

You the smoke in my lungs, and the drip in my veins

Sweet like sin, but you dance in my pain

Velvet voice, but your words hit cold

You’re the kind of love that never grows old — just mold

Woke up bleedin’ in my own dream

Saw your face in the TV screen

You love like a dealer loves a fiend

I’m the puppet, you the guillotine

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You wear my heart like velvet chains

Tied me up in sugar pain

Kiss me like you feel my soul

Then leave me dark and all alone

I’m obsessed, you’re my disease

Sweet decay in ecstasy

And I don’t wanna be set free

If love like this is killin’ me

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I rot in my room while your perfume haunts

Still hear your laugh in the spaces I want

You drip in leather, mascara tears

Taught me how to love through my fears

I built an altar out of broken glass

Prayin’ to a memory that never lasts

Every text I never sent, every night I bent

Breakin’ myself for a love you lent

You were thunder in a black silk dress

Heart like fire, lips like death

And I’m trapped in your silhouette

Chasin’ ghosts I won’t forget

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You wear my heart like velvet chains

Tied me up in sugar pain

Kiss me like you feel my soul

Then leave me dark and all alone

I’m obsessed, you’re my disease

Sweet decay in ecstasy

And I don’t wanna be set free

If love like this is killin’ me

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(Love ain’t love when it eats your mind)

(I been bleedin’ slow just to feel you right)

(Call it fate, call it hell-designed)

(You’re my light and my cyanide)

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You wear my heart like velvet chains

Tied me up in sugar pain

You were the storm I chose to chase

Now I wear your ghost like a face

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Still got your photo in my wallet like a wound

Still smell your scent when I walk in the room

You’re gone but you never really leave…

I’m still drowning in the dark you breathed