“Velvet Chains”

Intro]

(Whispered)

You know exactly what you’re doing to me...

And I still let you.

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You come in like midnight wine,

Bittersweet and laced with time.

Say the things that numb the fight,

Make me forget wrong feels right.

Your touch is velvet, soft and slow,

But every kiss’s a warning note.

I’m bruised beneath this pretty skin,

Still beg you just to pull me in.

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I don’t scream, I don’t run —

I stay quiet when I should’ve been gone.

You say jump, I ask “how high?”

Your poison tastes just like July.

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Wrapped in velvet chains, I obey

You kiss like a saint, but you break me each day

You call it love, but it’s a slow decay

And I love the way you ruin me anyway

Still I stay, still I pray

For your cruel parade

'Cause I love the way you break me

Like I asked for pain

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Got your fingerprints on my guilt,

And I wear it like designer silk.

I lie and say it’s all my choice,

While drowning in your velvet voice.

My friends all say to run, escape—

But they don’t know how good it tastes

To hurt like this, to fall this far,

To feel you brand me like a scar.

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Your lies sound better in the dark

And I mistake them for your heart

You’re not a storm — you’re something worse

A lullaby wrapped in a curse

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Wrapped in velvet chains, I obey

You kiss like a saint, but you break me each day

You call it love, but it’s a slow decay

And I love the way you ruin me anyway

Still I stay, still I pray

For your cruel parade

'Cause I love the way you break me

Like I asked for pain

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If this is love, then I’m the flame

Dancing through your acid rain

You never said you’d treat me right

But God, you always felt like night

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Wrapped in velvet chains, don’t untie

I’d rather burn here than say goodbye

You’re my ache, my high, my fight

And I’ll wear your hurt like a badge of pride

Still I stay, still I pray

For your cruel parade

'Cause I love the way you break me

Like I asked for pain