[Verse 1] Black lipstick midnight on a paper cup Streetlights blink like they forgot us You wore your damage like a tailored suit I wore mine loose, but it still looked cute We were bad decisions with expensive taste Kissing like a crime scene, slow and strange You said, “Don’t make this more than what it is” Then held me like a prayer you’d probably miss [Pre-Chorus] You talk like smoke You move like sin You let me close Then pull me in again [Chorus] You’re my velvet halo, dark above my head A little bit holy, a little bit undead We dance like the city wants us gone by dawn But we’re too gone to care, so we carry on You with your sharp heart, me with my soft scars Burning like a warning in the rearview stars If loving you’s a fever, let it flood and glow I look good in the fire of your velvet halo [Verse 2] Your name hits meaner when it leaves my mouth Like a church bell breaking in the southern clouds You laugh like mercy never learned my street Still I crawl back sweetly to the teeth beneath We made a kingdom out of closing bars Out of fake gold rings and abandoned cars Everybody said we’d fold beneath the weight But ruin never looked this elegant [Pre-Chorus] You talk like smoke You move like sin You let me leave Then want me back again [Chorus] You’re my velvet halo, dark above my head A little bit holy, a little bit undead We dance like the city wants us gone by dawn But we’re too gone to care, so we carry on You with your sharp heart, me with my soft scars Burning like a warning in the rearview stars If loving you’s a fever, let it flood and glow I look good in the fire of your velvet halo [Bridge] Maybe we’re not heaven Maybe we’re the fall Maybe we’re two shadows Making light look small Maybe love ain’t gentle Maybe love gets cold Maybe love’s just two lost kids Trying not to let go [Breakdown] So paint my name in red across your ghost-lit room Tell me I’m your bad habit, tell me I’m your doom Tell me I’m the last thing that still feels true I’d rather haunt forever than disappear from you [Final Chorus] You’re my velvet halo, dark above my head A little bit holy, a little bit undead We move like a promise no grave could hold Young enough to break, but too defiant to fold You with your sharp heart, me with my soft scars Turning all our damage into neon stars If loving you’s a fever, let it flood and show There’s still a little heaven in your velvet halo [Outro] Black lipstick midnight, first light in your eyes We were never perfect Just impossible to hide
