So would you tell me now

Are life and death a symmetry

Balanced on scales

Neither side chosen

And could these moments

Balance out against eternity

Promise inferred

Words never spoken



My life is burning

Could you read by the light

Letters I¹ve written

Never to follow

Poets and madmen

All defy reason

Still in my mind I know



I want to live my life with you

Dying hard

Play my whole hand until it¹s through

Dying hard



And in your arctic night

You contemplate eternity

Walking on water

Frozen in silence

And in that moment would you

Turn around and turn to me

Laughing away night¹s darker tyrants



My life is burning

Could you read by the light

Letters I¹ve written

Never to follow

Poets and madmen

All defy reason

Still in my mind I know



I want to live my life with you

Dying hard

Play in my whole hand until it¹s through

Dying hard



Some nights I spend alone inside my head

But it¹s better than losing it

And if you want to turn your life around

It¹s your life you¹re choosing it



I want to spend my life with you

Dying hard

Play the whole hand until it¹s through

Dying hard