Vice and Virtue

[Intro] Vice... Virtue... Vice... Virtue... [Verse 1] You enter the club like a curse Moving through smoke in reverse Dangerous with your switchblade smile Making strangers kneel for a while Leather pants, cropped black hair Your little kingdom everywhere Dancing, drinking, coming undone Till loneliness rises with the sun [Pre-Chorus] The drums keep pulling you out of your head Past every warning your conscience said Cold lights crawl across your face Tears dry under powder and lace [Chorus] You're Mother's angel Trying to be true But every night is a game You call vice and virtue You're Mother's angel With something to prove Still playing the game Between vice and virtue [Verse 2] Glitter is melting down your cheek Spinning inside a fever dream You laugh at a joke you didn't hear Blow your smoke through the mirror Velvet boys crowd the room Wearing trouble like perfume But when the record starts to slow You hunt for somewhere else to go [Pre-Chorus] The drums keep pulling you out of your head Past every warning your conscience said Cold lights crawl across your face Tears dry under powder and lace [Chorus] You're Mother's angel Trying to be true But every night is a game You call vice and virtue You're Mother's angel With something to prove Still playing the game Between vice and virtue [Bridge] Vice! Virtue! Walking the wire Which one wears you? One step deeper into the dark Begging the rhythm to restart You keep running from what you need Calling it freedom when it makes you bleed [Final Chorus] You're Mother's angel Trying to be true But every night is a game You call vice and virtue Yeah, you're Mother's angel With something to prove Still playing the game Between vice and virtue [Outro] Mother's angel... Vice and virtue... Mother's angel... Never the same...