HALF-DEAD, HALF-ALIVE - KADARE

[Intro] [clean mournful guitar] [low cathedral-like ambience] [heartbeat kick] [Verse 1] It’s been so long since I saw your eyes, Now I feel you fading slow, How your memory dies inside of me, Like dying roses in the snow. Every strand, every trace of you, Falls away into the dark, Like a prayer without a heaven, Like a flame without a spark. [Pre-Chorus] And I keep searching through the shadows, For a place to let you go... [Chorus] A verse, a note, a blackened rose, A lonely grave where no one knows, Where I can kiss your ghost goodbye And leave you there to sleep tonight. If no grave will take your heart, If no stone will keep us apart, Must I bear you through it all, Half-dead, half-alive, till I fall? [Verse 2] Now I wander low and high, Through empty rooms and withered light, Looking for a sacred silence, Somewhere to lay your soul tonight. A silver line, a final hymn, A crystal tomb beneath the rain, Somewhere I can lose your shadow, Somewhere I can drown this pain. [Pre-Chorus] If no marble wants your name, If no darkness keeps your flame... [Chorus] A verse, a note, a blackened rose, A lonely grave where no one knows, Where I can kiss your ghost goodbye And leave you there to sleep tonight. If no grave will take your heart, If no stone will keep us apart, Must I bear you through it all, Half-dead, half-alive, till I fall? [Bridge] And if I find no abyss below, No endless hollow, no sacred cold, Then I will take you to the fields, Where all dead love becomes gold. Soft as pollen, pale as dust, I’ll let the midnight scatter us, To the wind, to the earth, to the rain, Till you are everywhere again... [Final Chorus] A verse, a note, a blackened rose, A last embrace before you go, I’ll kiss your lips of memory And set you free inside of me. If no grave will take your heart, Then the whole world tears us apart, And I will break beneath it all, Half-dead, half-alive... Half-dead, half-alive... Until you fall from me.