[Verse 1] Silk gloves Shaking hands Eyes on me like sharpened glass Jewelry in the open palm Somebody staged this past "Thief " they breathe And the room tilts sideways All my careful smiles collapse Call me thief Call me fake Kneeling on that frozen marble I whisper “Is this the end?” Then her laughter cuts the silence Like a long-forgotten friend [Pre-Chorus] Then you laugh in my lungs Cold bloom in my chest "I've been waiting for years For a spine like this" Mirror blurs But your gaze is clear Red mouth on my reflection A voice like velvet mold Whispers “Want to trade your terror for my death?” [Chorus] Scarlet in my shadow Wearing me like borrowed skin Teach me how to stand in the gallows And stare the nobles in Timid little Connie You're over I feel your venom in my veins Scarlet in my shadow We’re dancing through their chains [Verse 2] She laughs “Little mouse Learn to bare your teeth” Slides inside my body like her second skin Every curtsy now a dagger underneath Every trembling word a place for us to win Whispers in the hall Poison in the law Masks of painted friends hiding sharpened knives Ten-year rotten lie Stitched across this sky Pull one thread and feel it tighten on their lives Bloodline names like loaded dice Courtroom perfume chokes the air Secret ledgers Coded lies Buried under velvet chairs You were ashes on their pretty carpets Now you haunt their every prayer [Pre-Chorus] She says “Curtsy Then attack” (shh, don’t flinch) “Let them think you’re stepping back” Every bow A hidden blade Every doubt A move we play [Chorus] Scarlet in my shadow Hand on my heart like a vow Teach me how to smile like danger I won’t disappear Not now Timid little Connie’s burning Watch the masks all melt and fall Scarlet in my shadow We will haunt this gilded hall [Verse 3] Tea gone cold in crystal glasses Poison hiding under lace Letters sealed with broken wax Names they never dare to say She draws maps on courtroom benches Tracing secrets on my sleeve “Ten years One wrong execution Pull this thread They all bleed” [Bridge] [Beat drops to sparse piano and distant vocal echoes] Blood-stamped letters in a secret drawer Hidden sigils under palace floors “Do you trust me?” she says in my head (do you?) “I was killed for what I almost said” I was just a name they could write and erase Now I’m every rumor staring in their face If I burn with you Will it break your curse? She smiles in my bones “Let’s make it worse” (hey!) [Chorus] Scarlet in my shadow Hand on my heart like a vow Teach me how to smile like danger I won’t disappear Not now Timid little Connie’s burning Watch the masks all melt and fall Scarlet in my shadow We will rewrite We will rewrite it all
