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Velvet Virgil

  1. **Velvet Vigil**
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  3.  
  4. (Verse 1)
  5.  
  6. You fold the night into your lap like prayer, like error, like a bruise
  7.  
  8. Candles cough their lipstick off and leave the windows with old news
  9.  
  10. We parade our tiny funerals in the kitchen, under cheap chandeliers
  11.  
  12. You tie my name to your sleeve like paper boats and whispered fears
  13.  
  14.  
  15. (Pre Chorus)
  16.  
  17. Say you’ll keep me in the pocket of your coat where secrets sleep
  18.  
  19. Promise me the weather won’t unlearn the way you keep
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  21.  
  22. (Chorus)
  23.  
  24. Hold me in your velvet vigil, press my ribs like holy things
  25.  
  26. Kiss the static from my temple, stitch my silence to your wings
  27.  
  28. If love is some slow arson, light me gently, don’t be cruel
  29.  
  30. Swear you’ll be the crooked gospel that keeps worshiping our fools
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  32.  
  33. (Verse 2)
  34.  
  35. We trade our better angels for the cigarette ash of the dawn
  36.  
  37. You laugh as if the world is a stage and we’re the chorus, slightly wrong
  38.  
  39. Your shadow teaches mine new sins —how to bow and not to break
  40.  
  41. We wrap our throats in ribbon and call it brave, call it fate
  42.  
  43.  
  44. (Pre Chorus)
  45.  
  46. You keep a photograph that’s folded to the shape of what we lied
  47.  
  48. You say, “I’ll hold you after midnight,” like a threat I can’t deny
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  50.  
  51. (Chorus)
  52.  
  53. Hold me in your velvet vigil, press my ribs like holy things
  54.  
  55. Kiss the static from my temple, stitch my silence to your wings
  56.  
  57. If love is some slow arson, light me gently, don’t be cruel
  58.  
  59. Swear you’ll be the crooked gospel that keeps worshiping our fools
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  61.  
  62. (Bridge —spoken, then building)
  63.  
  64. We were students of the hush, learned how to pray in the wrong keys
  65.  
  66. You taught me how to love with one hand, keep the other on the blade
  67.  
  68. We’ll carve our promises on the backs of chairs and let the rain baptized
  69.  
  70. The confessions that we barter like coins in some abandoned arcade
  71.  
  72.  
  73. (Breakdown —shouted)
  74.  
  75. Stay —don’t let the gutters eat the light we stole
  76.  
  77. Stay —burn our names on the underside of every phone booth soul
  78.  
  79. Stay —stay the comet that refuses to forget the earth
  80.  
  81. Stay —if we have to die, let it be loud and messy, let it be worth
  82.  
  83.  
  84. (Chorus —bigger, doubled)
  85.  
  86. Hold me in your velvet vigil, press my ribs like holy things
  87.  
  88. Kiss the static from my temple, stitch my silence to your wings
  89.  
  90. If love is some slow arson, light me gently, don’t be cruel
  91.  
  92. Swear you’ll be the crooked gospel that keeps worshiping our fools
  93.  
  94.  
  95. (Outro —quiet, urgent)
  96.  
  97. When the church lights fold their palms and the crowd goes cheap and gray
  98.  
  99. Keep the heartbeat in your pocket like contraband, like payday
  100.  
  101. Hold me in the velvet vigil —and if the world forgets our names
  102.  
  103. Let the echo be enough: two riddles wrapped in flame.

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