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