[Verse 1] You don’t have to raise your voice I hear the silence in your hand One look and I lose the noise One breath and I understand There’s a storm behind your calm There’s a rule beneath your skin You don’t force me to the edge You just ask if I’ll step in [Pre-Chorus] And I could run But I don’t want to I could fight But I like the fall There’s a hunger in the quiet And I answer when you call [Chorus] Wrap me in the velvet chain Teach my pulse to say your name I’m not broken when I bend I’m becoming yours again Hold the match against my shame Turn my wanting into flame I surrender, not from fear But because I chose you here In the velvet chain [Verse 2] Your control is not a cage It’s the door I walk through slow Every boundary that we name Makes it safer to let go You read the tremble in my mouth Like a prayer I haven’t said And I trust you with the dark That I keep beneath my chest [Pre-Chorus] And I could hide But I don’t need to I could lie But you’d know it all There’s a mercy in the pressure When you catch me as I fall [Chorus] Wrap me in the velvet chain Teach my pulse to say your name I’m not broken when I bend I’m becoming yours again Hold the match against my shame Turn my wanting into flame I surrender, not from fear But because I chose you here In the velvet chain [Bridge] Say the word and I’ll be still Say the word and I’ll come closer Desire is a loaded room And you are the hand on my shoulder Not owned without permission Not taken without trust This is not destruction This is reverent, wicked love [Breakdown] I choose the fire I choose the fall I choose the hands That hold it all I choose the silence I choose the ache I choose the power I let you take [Final Chorus] Wrap me in the velvet chain Teach my pulse to say your name I’m not broken when I bend I’m becoming yours again Hold the match against my shame Turn my wanting into flame I surrender, not from fear But because I chose you here In the velvet chain [Outro] One look One breath One rule One flame I don’t lose myself When I say your name
