Cleo West
Velvet Emergency lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Genre
- Indie Pop
You taste like midnight cigarettes
You talk like everybody’s watching
I know you’re trouble in a good dress
But common sense is getting boring
Red lights flashing in my head
I hear music there instead
You’re my velvet emergency
Soft enough to ruin me
Pull me close, then let me bleed
My velvet emergency
We make a scene beside the taxi
Then make up against the door
You say forever like an actress
I still beg you for an encore
Red lights flashing in my head
But I follow you instead
You’re my velvet emergency
Soft enough to ruin me
Pull me close, then let me bleed
My velvet emergency
Maybe love should feel like peace
Why does peace feel incomplete?
You were my velvet emergency
Now I know what love should be
Keep your beautiful disease
I’m ending this emergency
Key vocabulary
- like
- enjoy; similar to
- actress
- female performer in playsA1
- beautiful
- very attractiveA1
- boring
- not interestingA1
- door
- entrance in a wallA1
- dress
- clothes wornA1
- enough
- sufficient quantityA1
- everybody’s
- belonging to everyoneA1
- feel
- have an emotionA1
- follow
- go afterA1
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About this song
Cleo West blends jazzy soul, funk, and Afro rhythms, turning real everyday experiences into soulful music.