She's fragile and slender and fading fast   So in a voice so tender she asks   If I could lend her a helping hand      A hand that would end her strive   Love is only for poets and dreams are for fools   And on all beauty you'll find, time's always cruel      If you see what I see then say after me   I'll fight my fright, I'll do as you ask tonight      Ever since my heart chose to choose her   I've known I would lose her but I will excuse her   I could never refuse her anything      'Cause I'm not a poet, no, I'm just a fool   But the beauty she speaks of   Keeps her as the exception to the rule      But I see what I see, so I know what it'll be   I'll fight my fright and I'll do as she's asked me to do tonight      And all will be forgiven, it's from love that I've been driven   And time will skip a moment when it's perfect   And I'll kiss her lips as she slips away      You said you'd die for me, you said you'd die for me   So why can't you live for me, why won't you live for me?