HELLFIRE AND HALLELUJAHS

Lyrics

Verse 1 I found you broken in a dive bar off the county line Cigarette smoke and bourbon, lips as red as a stop sign You wore war paint on your collar and a knife behind your smile The kind of dangerous beautiful that drives a man worthwhile We burned the bridge behind us just to watch the embers fall Two outlaws with no compass, backs against a crumbling wall But darlin', lost with you still beats every road I've walked alone We don't need a destination when your arms become my home Pre-Chorus The devil tried to claim us, but we laughed through all his games They wrote our names on wanted signs — we wore 'em like a badge of flames Chorus You're my hellfire and my hallelujah My shotgun and my prayer My angel in the wreckage The only soul who ever dared Through the blood and the broken Through the fire and the flood You're the only truth I've spoken You're the holy in my blood My forever wild devotion My renegade, my ride or die — Baby, we're the kind of love story They'll still be singing when they die Verse 2 I've been hunted by the shadows, had the noose around my name You stepped into the crossfire, never flinching at the flame Every bounty, every warrant, every night we bled and ran You were standing in the gunsmoke saying "baby, we still can" We've got calluses from clinging to the razor edge of real Got red mud under our fingernails and iron in our heels This ain't the fairy tale they teach you in the Sunday morning pew It's the gospel of two sinners who broke every law but you Pre-Chorus They called us cursed and crazy, said our love would burn to coal But honey, coal makes diamonds — and you're precious to my soul Chorus You're my hellfire and my hallelujah My shotgun and my prayer My angel in the wreckage The only one who'd dare Through the blood and the broken Through the fire and the flood You're the only truth I've spoken You're the holy in my blood My forever wild devotion My renegade, my ride or die — Baby, we're the kind of love story That only burns in outlaw fire Bridge Somewhere past the sirens and the smoke-filled county roads Past the scars and the silences and the weight we've always hold There's a version of forever where the desperate make it through And every single version — every single one — ends with you I've made my peace with heaven, but I'd walk through hell again Just to find you in the ashes at the cold and bitter end So pour the whiskey, light the match, let the whole damn world decide — I chose you over safety, and I'll choose you 'til I die Chorus You're my hellfire and my hallelujah My shotgun and my prayer My angel in the wreckage and the fury of the air Through the blood and the broken Through the fire and the flood You're the only vow I've spoken with the marrow of my blood My forever burning devotion My renegade, my one desire — Baby, we're the kind of love story Forged in the heart of outlaw fire Outro So let them write their songs about the ones who played it safe... We'll carve our names in infamy on every road and rusted gate And when the legend's finally written and the years have gone to rust — They'll say I loved someone, and that love was everything and then some Yeah... they'll say you loved someone With everything and then some And that love — burned like hellfire all the way down.