The Manifest - The Velvet Teen

Love can be a royal menace

Been reminiscing

You were pretty, penniless

With looks to kill a king

You were blind, begging for change

Well, just you wait and see

Now we’re making empty threats

Yeah, pawn their vacancy

We’d been ruling for years

Really, what a waste

We’ve been burning' love letters

All that we wrote, erased

We would turn in the manifest

Now that we both could read

We’ve been learning the terms we committed to

Were meant for memory

Like the sky, you were over me

I know, we needed space

I’d go to mars and make a record

Curiosity

I’ll find another

Life is ordered now

For the exploring

If you can take my chaos, baby

I’ll make your terrain

We’ve been ruling for years

I’m never far away

We’ve been touring and tearing the veil

Well since the millennium

Baby girl, someday, someday

'cos i’m never far away

We’ll be burnin' the sheets

We’ll save on laundry

Back in 1980, maybe

Nah, i was never innocent

I’ve been burnin' papers since 1997

We’ve been drinkin' free today

Drunk on liberty

I’ve been learning, been earning my confidence

And my confidantes