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