Love's a Crime

[Intro] Soft hum, a quiet streetlight glow [Verse 1] I was twenty, she was nineteen We met behind stacks of old paper— no handcuffs, no sirens, just her fingers brushing mine when she handed me a book. I said, "I love you." She smiled— said, "That's dangerous." I thought she meant the world. Turns out she meant the law. [Pre-Chorus] Slow, half-spoken breath, leaning on the wall my pulse a whisper against the cold [Chorus] Ohhh, love's a crime, baby—they'll chain you up for it. Twenty-five years, hard concrete, and still I taste your name. Love's a crime, love's a crime— and I'm guilty, guilty, guilty. [Verse 2] They came at dawn. Boots on the stairs, flashlights in my eyes. Said I trespassed, said I stole her future. Judge didn't blink— just signed the paper like it was a grocery list. Twenty-five. No parole. I looked back once—she was there, in the back row, tears like ink on her cheeks. I smiled. Didn't say sorry. [Chorus] Ohhh, love's a crime, baby—they'll chain you up for it. Twenty-five years, hard concrete, and still I taste your name. Love's a crime, love's a crime— and I'm guilty, guilty, guilty. [Bridge] If words could break these bars, we’d be free by dawn If a kiss could overturn the law, we’d be gone. But the pages hum with the weight of what we did, what we felt, what we lost. [Chorus] Ohhh, love's a crime, baby—they'll chain you up for it. Twenty-five years, hard concrete, and still I taste your name. Love's a crime, love's a crime— and I'm guilty, guilty, guilty. [Outro] In the quiet, I hear your voice through the stones— you're the echo I keep, the mercy I own.