velvet wounds ϛ

Your fingertips like cigarette smoke

Tracing circles on my collarbone

This secret taste like medicine

Bitter sweet and paper thin

And maybe I'm too honest

Maybe that's my violence

Feeling velvet wounds

In turned-down rooms

Don't say my name

(Pull my hair)

Don't touch my face

(Strip me bare)

Don't say my name

(Linger There)

Linger There

Linger There

Vinyl spinning, needle drops

Time moves slow then stops

Your shadow dances on the wall

I'm hypnotized by how we fall

Mercury in retrograde

Or maybe I'm just losing faith

In the promises we never made

In this beautiful mistake

You say I'm being cryptic

But the truth is too explicit

These velvet wounds run deep

In the places I don't speak

Don't say my name

(Pull my hair)

Don't touch my face

(Strip me bare)

Don't say my name

(Linger there)

Linger There

Linger There

(Mmm, mmm)

Tell me lies

That only I can hear

(Mmm, mmm)