[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.
