AND STILL THERE IS LOVE [Low male voice — almost spoken] And still... there is love. And still... there is the curse. I send my voice into the dark, though no one answers anymore. I loved. I dared. I feared. And I am still here. --- [Verse I] The world has gone to sleep with open eyes, the roads are empty, the wires are dead. Every night we lose another life, every morning we return from the dead. I used to think that two could be enough, two bodies hiding from the end. But something happened. Something broke. And nothing ever closed again. --- [Percussion enters — slow, massive] I ask for nothing from this world. No heaven. No mercy. No name. Give me one room, one bed, one darkness, and you. Let the thunder come. Let it tear through us. Let it leave nothing untouched. --- [Pre-Chorus] All the engines have stopped. All the signals are gone. The cities are breathing like graves. So come closer. Closer. If the world will not wake... wake me. --- [Chorus] And still there is love. Still there is pain. Still I call your name into the rain. Still there is love. Still there is fear. If everything dies, stay here. Stay here. Stay here. --- [Verse II] Outside, the darkness breeds more darkness. Inside, we burn without a flame. Men build temples to divide the silence, then kill each other in the same God's name. Let them speak. Let them judge. Let them turn the sky into a cage. Tonight I need no paradise. Tonight your body is my faith. --- [Heavy percussion — ritual pulse] I kneel. Not before heaven. Not before saints. Not before kings. I kneel because the weight of you has brought the sky down onto me. And if they come to take you, let them come. I have already lost enough. --- [Breakdown — voice alone] You exist. That is enough. Love exists. That is enough. Death exists inside it too. I know. I know. I know. --- [Verse III] Sometimes I love you most in sorrow, when your eyes refuse the light. There is something holy in your sadness, something no god could make right. And maybe love was never rescue. Maybe love was never meant to save. Maybe all we ever really had was someone beside us at the grave. --- [Percussion grows] My words are losing all their meaning. So I return to the first sound. The first breath. The first wound. The first time your name came out of my mouth. And now I bring the whole night down upon us. The trees. The sky. The rain. The world. --- [Silence] Goodbye. ... Which means: stay. --- [Final Chorus — strongest] And still there is love. Still there is pain. Still I call your name through the rain. Still there is love. Still there is fear. When the last light dies, stay here. And still there is love. Under the curse. Under the ashes. Under the earth. I loved. I dared. I feared. I lost. But still... there is love. --- [Outro — deep male voice, almost whispered] No heaven. No answer. No miracle above. Only the dark. Only us. And still... there is love. And still... there is love. And still... there is love.
