Venom & Lace

Verse

She walked in with her borrowed smile and secondhand charm,

Painted on pretty, but there's nothing underneath the alarm.

Practiced every move in the mirror, learned it all from a screen,

The sweetest little actress in the cruelest little scene.

She memorized his favorite bands, she faked his favorite shows,

Wore the personality like a costume — everyone knows.

You think you won something, honey, but you won a rental,

A boy who trades up easy — congrats, it's consequential.

Pre-chorus

And I've got a long memory and a longer tongue,

So let's talk about the games you play for fun.

You dressed it up in kindness, called yourself a friend —

But snakes wear lipstick too, right until the end.

Chorus

Venom and lace, that's all you are,

A pretty little wound, a borrowed scar.

You think you won the war, you just won the wreckage,

He'll leave you like a note — no return address.

Venom and lace, you rot what you touch,

You needed him so badly 'cause you're never enough.

Go ahead and wear my ghost like it's a crown,

I'll be the reason your whole kingdom burns down.

Verse

She cried to all his friends about how hard her life is,

Turned his loyalty into a weapon — call it what it is.

Dug her nails in slow, real soft, called it vulnerability,

But I've seen the screenshots, babe — that ain't fragility.

You cut your teeth on other people's almost-love stories,

Collect the wreckage like it's currency, collect the glory.

You're not a romantic lead, you're a cautionary tale,

And everyone around you knows it, everyone's gone pale.

Pre-chorus

And I've got a long memory and a sharper pen,

You'll never be the heroine — not now, not then.

You built yourself a throne out of what you took,

But stolen things rot fast, go ahead and look.

Chorus

Venom and lace, that's all you are,

A pretty little wound, a borrowed scar.

You think you won the war, you just won the wreckage,

He'll leave you like a note — no return address.

Venom and lace, you rot what you touch,

You needed him so badly 'cause you're never enough.

Go ahead and wear my ghost like it's a crown,

I'll be the reason your whole kingdom burns down.

Bridge

Here's what they don't tell you about girls like you —

The boys you steal don't stay, they never do.

You're a thrill, a detour, a wrong-number call,

And when he's done with you, there's no one left to fall.

You'll redecorate yourself for the next one in line,

New mirror, new victim, same slow decline.

And somewhere down the road when you're picking up the pieces,

Remember every fire has a source before it ceases.

I am the source.

I am the fire.

And you are just the smoke.

Outro

Venom and lace, venom and lace —

You can have the boy, you can have the space.

But history remembers who played every card,

And darling, your whole hand was already scarred.

Venom and lace.

Venom and lace.

You wore it so well.

Now wear the disgrace.