[Intro - soft continuous string pad, dark and romantic] [Verse 1 - low and intimate] For ages I have known the final words whispered just before the silence. I know the hands that lose their warmth, the eyes that cease to see. I have led kings and children, lovers, traitors, saints, and every name would fade inside me like a flame in a winter wind. Until you came. You never called my name. You never knelt. You never begged for a miracle. You only stood there at the edge of night and looked at me as if you'd known me all your life. [Pre-Chorus] I should have reached out my hand. I should have whispered: come. But for the first time, I am the one afraid. [Chorus] There's death beneath my wings, but I cannot take you with me. A thousand hearts fell still beside me, but yours is making me remain. I love you against heaven, against every law I know. If you are only here for a moment, let me stay inside it with you. [Verse 2] You said so little of what came before. I never asked — I knew the pain. You need no ending to discover how a soul can disappear by degrees. You were a garden after thunder, a broken tree that still survives, like someone who should have fallen silent and yet somehow is breathing still. And then I understood I envy you for everything: for touch, for fever, for tears, for mornings, even for the fear of what one day must come. For only those who have to leave can know how deeply loss can hurt. [Pre-Chorus] And I, who carried others onward, cannot take a single step. For beyond it, you will no longer be there. [Chorus] There's death beneath my wings, but I cannot take you with me. A thousand hearts fell still beside me, but yours is making me remain. I love you against heaven, against every law I know. If you are only here for a moment, let me stay inside it with you. [Bridge - quieter] If I were given one human life, I'd trade eternity for one night. For one dream beside you. For the weight of your head on my shoulder. For your breathing I would never have to count. I don't want to lead you onward. I don't want to know your final word. I don't want to be the one you'll see at the end. [Instrumental] [Final Chorus] There's death beneath my wings, but tonight I turn its face away. Let it wait beyond eternity. Let it never learn your name. I love you against heaven, against everything I am. If I must fall because I love you, then for the first time I want to fall. [Outro] And when the day arrives that I cannot hold away, I will not be your guide. I'll walk beside you. Like someone who for the very first time is afraid to die.
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