Velvet Alibi

I caught your shadow in the candlelight

Dancing through the smoke of a stranger's lie

You wore your secrets like a silken dress

Torn at the seams but you still impressed

Your name was trouble mine was worse

We met like a blessing wrapped in a curse

Midnight eyes and a crooked vow

You kissed me like the world was burning down

You're my velvet alibi

My sweet deceit in a scarlet tie

Love me like a crime you'd never confess

Leave me wrecked in your Sunday best

We were fire with no place to die

But I'd burn for you one more time

You're my velvet velvet alibi

Champagne sin in a motel bed

You laughed like you'd already left

Told me love was just a loaded game

Where no one ever walks away the same

You said forever like a dirty word

But I held it like it might still work

Your perfume on my leather coat

Is the only goodbye you ever wrote

You're my velvet alibi

The sweetest lie I ever tried

Love me like a myth you carved in stone

Break me just to feel less alone

We were thunder in a glass of wine

And I'd drown in you one more time

You're my velvet velvet alibi

We were diamonds soaked in gasoline

So beautiful it had to be obscene

I'd chase your ghost through every song

'Cause wrong with you still feels less wrong

You're my velvet alibi

My cruel salvation in the devil's eye

Hold me like a prayer you won't repeat

Kill me with your bittersweet

If love's a lie then let me die

In your arms one last time

You're my velvet

Velvet alibi