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 I've 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 it's 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 night's darker tyrants 



My life is burning 

Could you read by the light 

Letters I've 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 it's through 

Dying hard 



Some nights I spend alone inside my head 

But it's better than losing it 

And if you want to turn your life around 

It's your life you're choosing it 



I want to spend my life with you 

Dying hard 

Play the whole hand until it's through 

Dying hard