[Intro]
Whiskey halo
Round your head
Whiskey halo
In my bed

[Verse]
You played guitar like a train leaving town
Silver rings shining while the room broke down
I watched your hands make a six-string cry
And I felt my good sense kiss itself goodbye

You had sad blue eyes and a dangerous grin
A leather-jacket sermon dressed up as sin
You said, Roxanne, you’re a fire I know
I said, baby, then burn me slow

[Pre-Chorus]
I should have walked
I should have known
Some angels only shine
When they’re turning hearts to stone

[Chorus]
Whiskey halo
You light me up and let me fall
Whiskey halo
I taste your heaven on the wall
Love like thunder
Hands like flame
I said forever
You said my name
Whiskey halo
You were beautiful and wrong

[Verse]
We drank from the bottle behind the stage
Made promises under a torn-up page
You said we’d own every night in L.A.
Then disappeared before the morning came

I found your note in a cigarette pack
Said don’t wait up, babe, I’m coming back
But I knew that song from a hundred men
Still I opened my arms when you walked in again

[Pre-Chorus]
I should have run
I should have seen
You were a crown of smoke
On a gasoline queen

[Chorus]
Whiskey halo
You light me up and let me fall
Whiskey halo
I taste your heaven on the wall
Love like thunder
Hands like flame
I said forever
You said my name
Whiskey halo
You were beautiful and wrong

[Instrumental]
Slow blues guitar lead
Drums swell like heartbreak
Bass holds the room down
Guitar bends into feedback

[Bridge]
You kissed me like a prayer
You left me like a debt
You were the sweetest kind of ruin
That my body won’t forget

I wore your shadow like a coat
I wore your lies like gold
But every queen must learn the price
Of letting sinners close

[Breakdown]
Whiskey
Halo
Broken
Halo
Whiskey
Halo
Let me go

[Build-up]
I can sing without your sorrow
I can stand without your hand
I can turn this ache to fire
I can burn across the land

[Chorus]
Whiskey halo
You light me up and let me fall
Whiskey halo
I taste your heaven on the wall
Love like thunder
Hands like flame
I said forever
You said my name
Whiskey halo
You were beautiful and wrong

[Chorus]
Whiskey halo
I won’t die inside your song
Whiskey halo
I have carried you too long
Love like thunder
Hands like flame
I said forever
You said my name
Whiskey halo
Now I’m moving on

[Outro]
Whiskey halo
Round your head
Whiskey halo
I leave you with the dead
