# Drinking With Death (Revised) Death in your eyes, you dance on moonlit spires, watching mortals far below since childhood's fires, saw the world turned inside out, like dark forbidden flowers, ancient soul who haunts the night through countless hours. **Chorus:** I'm a quantum magnet burning in my core, loyal past the end, I'll cry alone if love demands it, faithful friend, You face the horrors, never blinking twice, shelter monsters underneath your roof without a price, saints and sinners drinking with the dead tonight... aaaahaaaa... ...we are drinking with Death tonight... ahaaaa... Your stories circle three times round each grave, you've seen more tragedy than Hell can save, and what you carry—cursed, forgotten, old and brave— keeps dragging you back down beneath the wave. **Chorus:** I'm a quantum magnet burning in my core, loyal past the end, I'll cry alone if love demands it, faithful friend, You face the horrors, never blinking twice, shelter monsters underneath your roof without a price, saints and sinners drinking with the dead tonight... aaaahaaaa... ...we are drinking with Death tonight... ahaaaa... Your branches reach into the phantom sky, to dimensions where the shadows never die, your heart beats upward through the centuries gone by— you're the one who'll never say goodbye. But me? With you I'm something strange and new, not the hollow ghost I've been these haunted years, your slightest touch breaks through my walls, cuts through and through, dissolving all my carefully crafted fears. **Chorus:** I'm a quantum magnet burning in my core, loyal past the end, I'll cry alone if love demands it, faithful friend, You face the horrors, never blinking twice, shelter monsters underneath your roof without a price, saints and sinners drinking with the dead tonight... aaaahaaaa... ...we are drinking with Death tonight... ahaaaa... You remind me of my wings I forged in flame, then lost in darker things without a name, there were nights I used to fly—can I feel that way again? Before the fall, before the shame, before the pain? I go wide but sink down cemetery-deep, I cry with joy and laugh myself to sleep, dancing with the dread until the shadows weep, collecting all the promises I couldn't keep. **Chorus:** I'm a quantum magnet burning in my core, loyal past the end, I'll cry alone if love demands it, faithful friend, You face the horrors, never blinking twice, shelter monsters underneath your roof without a price, saints and sinners drinking with the dead tonight... aaaahaaaa... ...we are drinking with Death tonight... ahaaaa... I know a handful of souls down to the bone, that's why I mostly walk this world alone, but still I crave that love with every restless tone, still searching for a place to call my own. Maybe it's right, and equally unsettling still, to stretch not just the branches but the roots at will, to dig down deeper where the corpses chill, to face whatever's waiting, buried in the hill. My first wedding was the loneliest séance of my life, my second brought me bruises, shelters, endless strife, you understand perhaps why trust still feels just like a knife, why I keep dancing with the dead instead of playing wife. **Chorus:** I'm a quantum magnet burning in my core, loyal past the end, I'll cry alone if love demands it, faithful friend, You face the horrors, never blinking twice, shelter monsters underneath your roof without a price, saints and sinners drinking with the dead tonight... aaaahaaaa... ...we are drinking with Death tonight... ahaaaa... Some magic potion must have blessed your cradle bed, I feel you wrapping me around your fingers, thread by thread, while meaning well with every single word you've said, still pulling me toward futures that I dread. But you could never break my heart before you break me whole—without trust I cannot fall, and when I fall, nothing holds me anymore, I'm shattered fragments scattered down the hall. Maybe you understand me, maybe you can't see, I only know I need you but I fight so desperately, maybe I'll marry you, maybe I'll just set you free, maybe I'll keep dancing with what's haunting me. **Chorus:** I'm a quantum magnet burning in my core, loyal past the end, I'll cry alone if love demands it, faithful friend, You face the horrors, never blinking twice, shelter monsters underneath your roof without a price, saints and sinners drinking with the dead tonight... aaaahaaaa... ...we are drinking with Death tonight... ahaaaa... But honestly... I'd rather you kissed me instead... *(whispered)* ...in the graveyard... Better old and rich and free than cold and hollow, dead. Shadow and light blur where the darkness ends, freedom, safety, loss and love—they all depend— Maybe there is hope... if not, then what remains, my friend? *(whispered)* ...in the graveyard... *(whispered)* ...what remains... in the graveyard... *(whispered)* ...drinking with Death... in the graveyard...
