You're my velvet Elvis, baby You're my velvet Elvis, I ain't never gonna take you down Making everybody jealous when they step into my house Soft to the touch, feels like love, knew it as soon as I felt it All I ever wanted was something classic The kind

You touch me like a razor blade I wish there was some other way right now, oh oh Like a house on fire we're up in flames I'd burn here if that's what it takes To let you know I won't let go of you, oh oh Of you (oh oh) So I'll just hold you like a hand

Baby we built this house On memories Take my picture now Shake it til you see it And when your fantasies Become your legacy Promise me a place In your house of memories

I said I'm mad (I'm burnin' up) I had a friend one time, at least I thought he was my friend For he came to me, said "I ain't got no place to go" I said "take it easy man, you can come home to my house, I'll get you a pillow where you can rest your head"

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it This brokenness inside me might start healing. Out here it's like I'm someone else, Won't take nothing but a memory If I could just come in I swear I'll leave. From the house that built me. I thought that

I suffer well I've killed my fears a thousand times, I've been oppressed I'm digging in and found another reason to confess I set on fire what's out my house so I can see the mess Just take it all and burn it all, until there's nothing left Got amnesia,

Rip the roof up off of here, take it to the stratosphere Bring the house down Breathe in, out When the lights come on, when the crowd goes wild Stand up and scream it loud when the fire flies There’s a world passed the curtains of eager excitement A sea

Tell me who's that writin', John the Revelator Who's that writin', John the Revelator Tell me who's that writin', John the Revelator wrote the book of the seven seals Who's that writin', John the Revelator wrote the book of the seven seals Well, who's

Take the box Put it in the box, put it in the box The Moschino bra you bought me last Christmas Frank's in there and I don't care Your neighbours were screaming I don't have a key for downstairs, so I punched all the buzzers hoping he would be there And

There are lots of things that you can do alone But it takes You can haunt any house by yourself Be a man or a mouse by yourself You can act like a king on a thrown But it takes two to tango two to tango Two to really get the feeling of romance Two to