Until the Grave Takes Two

Sleep, my darling... Forever begins beneath the ground. The candlelight dances across your face, A frozen angel time cannot erase. Your lips are pale as the winter moon, I still hear your name in an empty room. I've dressed your hair with midnight roses, While the world outside us slowly decomposes. They call me mad, they call me cursed, But losing you would be a thousand times worse. The priest said, son, you must let her go, But there's a kind of love the dead might know. I hear your name in the churchyard rain, I'd walk through hell just to dream again. Sleep, my darling, sleep in my arms, Safe from the world and its cruel alarms. Your heart beats never, but mine beats for two, I've fallen in love with the silence of you. Kiss me in darkness, my beautiful bride, I'll be the shadow that stays by your side. Till the black earth swallows the stars above, I'll marry the dead in the name of our love. I bought you a ring from a pawnshop grave, A promise of forever no time can take. I laid it gently beside your hand, And dreamed of a wedding no one could understand. Your wedding dress hangs in the bedroom light, Your portrait watches me every night. I talk to your ghost when the cold winds moan, And swear to the darkness I won't leave you alone. Your mother weeps, your father screams, They say I'm drowning inside my dreams. But when the thunder shakes the chapel stone, I hear your silence and I'm not alone. Sleep, my darling, sleep in my arms, Safe from the world and its cruel alarms. Your heart beats never, but mine beats for two, I've fallen in love with the silence of you. Kiss me in darkness, my beautiful bride, I'll be the shadow that stays by your side. Till the black earth swallows the stars above, I'll marry the dead in the name of our love. I don't need heaven... I found my heaven where the roses die. I found forever in your vacant eyes. Let the angels turn their faces away, Let the devil come calling for me today. If death is a door that separates us two, I'll stand at the threshold, still calling for you. No pulse, no breath, no morning sun, Just a love that darkness cannot outrun. WHY DID DEATH TAKE YOU AND LEAVE ME ALIVE? I BURY MY HEART JUST TO KEEP YOURS INSIDE! NO GOD, NO GRAVE, NO HEAVEN ABOVE! CAN SAVE ME NOW FROM THIS BEAUTIFUL LOVE! Sleep, my darling, sleep by my side, Tonight I'll surrender to the night you died. No grave is deep enough, no heaven above, To bury the hunger of this terrible love. Kiss me in darkness, my beautiful bride, Let the black roses bloom where our vows will reside. When the last star falls and the heavens turn black, I'll follow your shadow and never turn back. The candles burn low... The roses turn black... I whisper, I love you... The silence whispers back... Forever... Forever... Forever... Until the grave takes two...