[Intro] The hallway shines like watered wine A candle bends, a clock declines Your silhouette begins to pour Its sweetness through the velvet door [Verse] You wore the night like borrowed skin With silver dust beneath your chin I heard the floorboards learn your name And every room became a flame You smiled like sin had found a saint Too soft to touch, too sharp to paint I should have turned, I should have known Some houses never let you go [Pre-Chorus] But your hand was cool, your voice was low You said the dark could make us whole I felt the key inside me turn I felt the old red curtains burn [Chorus] Behind the red velvet door I wanted less and needed more You wrapped my heart in something warm Then locked it from the coming storm Behind the red velvet door We kissed like ghosts across the floor So beautiful, so false, so pure I lost myself and called it cure [Verse] The mirrors watched with patient eyes As you undressed my alibis You took my fear and called it trust You turned my hunger into dust The roses leaned toward your perfume Like mourners crowding one small room I laughed because I could not breathe And wore your shadow on my sleeve [Pre-Chorus] You said the world was cold outside You said the house would let us hide But every lock began to sing Like winter wrapped around a ring [Chorus] Behind the red velvet door I wanted less and needed more You wrapped my heart in something warm Then locked it from the coming storm Behind the red velvet door We kissed like ghosts across the floor So beautiful, so false, so pure I lost myself and called it cure [Interlude] Open slow Close me in Hold me close Call it sin [Bridge] If love is velvet, let it bruise If love is holy, let it choose But yours was soft enough to kill A feather pressed against my will I heard my future in the hall A fragile step, a distant fall And still I crossed that shining line And gave your darkness all of mine [Breakdown] Red door Cold floor One kiss Want more Red door No dawn Your hand Hold on [Build-up] The house is breathing The glass is crying My heart is kneeling My name is dying The house is breathing The night is wide You pull me closer And call it life [Chorus] Behind the red velvet door I wanted less and needed more You wrapped my heart in something warm Then locked it from the coming storm Behind the red velvet door We kissed like ghosts across the floor So beautiful, so false, so pure I lost myself and called it cure [Chorus] Behind the red velvet door I hear my old life no more You made a prison feel like home Then left me singing there alone Behind the red velvet door The roses rot, the rafters mourn So beautiful, so false, so pure I lost myself and called it cure [Outro] The candle dies, the lock remains The velvet drinks the windowpanes Your footsteps fade, but not before My heart stays at the velvet door