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