You don’t walk in here
you slide in slow
yeah

Midnight dripped on your shoulder line,
soft black dress and a hard-mouth smile
Blue smoke curl from the exit sign,
whole room hush when you crossed my side

I was leaning cool by the back wall dim,
two lights low and a bad thought grin
You said nothing first, let the silence work,
like a slow-cut blade in a velvet shirt

I know that look —
half dare, half danger
One step close and the air got stranger
Glass on wood, little pulse in your throat,
I could hear that want underneath your poise

Short pause, low breath
don’t speak yet
Some doors don’t swing, they pull you in,
and you came like sin with your hands like heat

No front porch light, no warning sign
Just that soft dark pull and a steady eye
You moved like a secret I should’ve ignored
But I let you in through the velvet side door

Velvet side door, let that trouble in
Soft touch smile with a hard-luck grin
Whole night tilted when you crossed that floor
Velvet side door, let that trouble in

Velvet side door, no lock, no peace
Slow-burn kiss with a cut beneath
You don’t need much when the want gets warm
Velvet side door, let that trouble in

Bass sat low like a heartbeat bruise,
red light slipped down the side of your boots
You said my name like a match struck late,
sweet and sharp with a little delay

I kept one hand on the edge of the bar,
other one caught where your good sense was
We were half in smoke, half in sparks,
all bite, no brakes, no map, just dark

Slide note wept through the sub so clean,
you moved one inch and it wrecked my ease
Saints go quiet in a room like this,
when the skin talks first and the mind goes thin

Long stare, slow drag
don’t look back
You wore that calm like a loaded line,
and I wore my vice like it fit just fine

No front porch light, no warning sign
Just that soft dark pull and a steady eye
You moved like a secret I should’ve ignored
But I let you in through the velvet side door

Velvet side door, let that trouble in
Soft touch smile with a hard-luck grin
Whole night tilted when you crossed that floor
Velvet side door, let that trouble in

Velvet side door, no lock, no peace
Slow-burn kiss with a cut beneath
You don’t need much when the want gets warm
Velvet side door, let that trouble in

Maybe it was the room
maybe it was the hour
Maybe some kinds of heat
don’t ask for power

One breath
one glance
one hand on the frame
You stepped in soft, but you never came tame

Now the walls still hold what the night poured through
and the dark feels different where I met you

Velvet side door, let that trouble in
Soft touch smile with a hard-luck grin
Whole night tilted when you crossed that floor
Velvet side door, let that trouble in

Velvet side door, no lock, no peace
Slow-burn kiss with a cut beneath
Leave the light off, let the pulse stay warm
Velvet side door, let that trouble in

You don’t walk in here
you slide in slow
yeah
you slide in slow