[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
