Velvet Noose

(Verse 1)

You pull me in with quiet hunger, velvet on your tongue

A promise spoken soft enough to cut into my lungs

I swore I’d find the strength to leave the moment that you choose

But you wrap around my weakness like a tailored excuse

You trace your name across my skin where all the bruises bloom

You say you’re doing this for me, but there’s no space to move

You swear your love is gentle, but you tighten when I lose

You call it comfort, but it feels just like a velvet noose

(Pre-Chorus)

You dress the pain in elegance, you make it feel like art

You tie a bow around the ache and claim you own my heart

(Chorus)

If this is how you love, then pull it tighter

Drag me under, set my veins on fire

Hold me close enough to bruise

If devotion means I lose

I’ll wear your truth like something holy

Even if it’s killing slowly

If this is how you love, then pull it tight

I’ll die inside your velvet noose tonight

(Verse 2)

You hush me with a fingertip, you never raise your voice

You say you’re giving me the world, but never gave a choice

You built a heaven made of rules I didn’t get to choose

And call it paradise while tightening the velvet noose

You say that I’m your only, that you’re scared to let me go

You hold me like a secret that you never want to show

I try to loosen what you tied, but every time I do

You whisper “I’m the only one who ever cared for you”

(Pre-Chorus)

You say it’s love, but love’s not meant to feel like being used

Your hands were warm, but now they’re just another cage to lose

(Chorus)

If this is how you love, then pull it tighter

Drag me under, set my veins on fire

Hold me close enough to bruise

If devotion means I lose

I’ll wear your truth like something holy

Even if it’s killing slowly

If this is how you love, then pull it tight

I’ll die inside your velvet noose tonight

(Bridge)

I felt the warning signs, but still I let you in

You charmed the poison, made it taste just like a medicine

You said you’d keep me safe, I never thought you’d mean

Safe from every world except the one you built for me

(soft, almost whispered)

Don’t loosen it… I’m used to it…

(Break – short)

Tighten—

I’m breathless but I want it

Tighten—

If leaving is the cure, I’m haunted

(Final Chorus)

If this is how you love, then pull it tighter

Drag me under, set my veins on fire

Hold me close enough to bruise

If devotion means I lose

I’ll wear your truth like something holy

Even if it’s killing slowly

If this is how you love, don’t set me free

Your velvet noose feels like a home to me

(Outro)

If loving you is how I fade

Let me fade in your embrace