Love Is a Velvet Noose

As I rode out on Valentine's Day
All down to Beachy Head
My liver felt like a suicide note
To Johnnie Walker Red

Although I said I would be there
As a crutch each time you fall
But I want you to know I was thinking of you
Though I went home with him

Oh, love is a velvet noose
Oh, love is a velvet noose
A rush of blood to the head
Like Johnnie Ace playing Russian Roulette
Love is a velvet noose

Well I could have been a soldier
In some Napoleonic war
And my last chivalric breath
Would gift your name to the air forevermore
Oh, but now you're a hamstrung veteran
In the unmarked trench of my heart
I found my feet, but you lost direction
Unhappy endings, false starts

So dress me in a winding sheet
While Blind Lemon he sings the blues
A dozen angels 'round my crown and feet
And 'round your neck, a velvet noose

Oh, love is a velvet noose
Oh, love is a velvet noose
A rush of blood to the head
Like Johnnie Ace playing Russian Roulette