[Verse 1] I found you when the night fell down, When my heart wasn't looking for anyone around. Piercing eyes and waves in your hair, Bright like diamond shards I knew would cut me if I cared. I was so afraid to stay, You were scared to walk away. Two hearts full of scars inside, Hurting just to feel alive. [Pre-Chorus] If loving you is my sentence to pay, I'll take it all and look the other way. Tell me every wicked thing you've ever done, And let me love you anyway. [Chorus] I'd love you till the end of all days, When chaos and destruction claim our ways. Buried deep beneath the rubble and the stone, This heart would still be beating for you alone. Guess maybe Jesus made a place for us too, My paradise in a ruined world with you. Even if loving you meant losing who I am, You were my favorite American sin. [Verse 2] You kissed the open wounds I tried to hide, And made a promise to my lonely side. Sweet, a little bitter, maybe laced with irony, Whatever—tranquility's not meant for me. The worms will touch your skin, but what I crave Is what can't even perish in the grave. [Pre-Chorus] If loving you is my sentence to pay, I'll take it all and look the other way. Tell me every wicked thing you've ever done, And let me love you anyway. [Chorus] I'd love you till the end of all days, When chaos and destruction claim our ways. Buried deep beneath the rubble and the stone, This heart would still be beating for you alone. Guess maybe Jesus made a place for us too, My paradise in a ruined world with you. Even if loving you meant losing who I am, You were my favorite American sin. [instrumental drop] [Bridge] If death ever comes to claim us both tonight, We'll find each other in the other side's light. And if eternity is just a lie, I'll invent one where we never have to die. I'll find you in another life, another place, another skin, With the same heart wanting you again. [Final Chorus] I'd love you till the end of all days, When chaos and destruction claim our ways. Even if loving you meant losing who I am, You were my favorite American sin. [guitar solo soaring riffs] [Outro, Cinematic melancholic and sexy female voice Monologue and Close-mic Whisper] If the angel of death asks for my final words to the world, here they are: "And above all things, put on love, which binds everything together in perfect unity." And if the angels in paradise ask me what you were to me, I'll say: "You were everything I couldn't set free." My most beautiful love. My deepest American sin.
