[Sound: Kiss] [Sound: Kiss]
Verse 1
I have told them every one of them What I am and what I do - I did Showed them all the evidence - all of it Every dark hall I walked through Still they find me at the garden wall Still they reach across the dark Still they say they’re different Still they offer me their hearts Locking their fingers on mine As they look at my purple eyes…
Pre-Chorus
And I say You know what happens here You know how this ends You’ve seen the ones before you Still you lean in, and hold your breath —
Chorus
Kiss of death The sweetest thing you’ll ever taste Kiss of death The last mistake you’ll ever make I will hold you like forever While the forever falls away And you’ll thank me For the kiss of death
Verse 2
There’s a moment right before your lips are on mine When I see it in their eyes, the lust building inside That small surrender, that small opening When the knowing loses to desire I’ve learned not to look away I’ve learned to hold that moment still Something lives there in the threshold Between the love and the downhill
Pre-Chorus 2
And they say I know what happens here I know how this ends I’ve seen the ones before me Still I lean in, breath still holding
Chorus
Kiss of death The sweetest thing you’ll ever taste Kiss of death The last mistake you’ll ever make I will hold you like forever While the forever falls away And you’ll thank me For the kiss of death
Bridge
The tragedy is not that they are craving The tragedy is the craving is never ending And again and again and again Every break a memory they’d choose Every wound a door they’d open Every ending just a reason To believe the next time would be different It never is But oh How beautiful the trying
Final Chorus
Kiss of death The sweetest thing you’ll ever taste Kiss of death You’d make the same mistake I will hold you like forever While the forever falls away And you’ll thank me You’ll thank me For my kiss of death
Outro — whispered
They always do. Approach now, let me give you a kiss.
[Sound: Kiss] [Sound: Kiss]