the ... price ... of ... for-e-ver You speak of forever like a prayer as though eternity is kind as though the dark became a kingdom instead of a prison of the mind You see the nights I spend beside you the moments when my hands are still you do not see the beast behind them or hear the screaming of my will You think that love can conquer hunger that blood obeys a lover's vow But every night your heart is beating and I can hear it even now (beat) I know the river in your veins I know the warmth beneath your skin and every time you lean to kiss me I fight a war I cannot win Do you know what waits beyond the turning? Do you know what waits beyond the grave? No sunlight on your face (none!) No peace inside your sleep (none!) Only endless years of needing what you swore you'd never need This is the price of forever this is the debt that never ends the cold beneath the skin the hunger underneath your friends This is the price of forever the shadow chained inside your soul you call it love you call it life I call it losing what makes you whole You speak of sharing every burden of carrying every scar I bear but scars are stories, David darling this curse is something far more rare What happens when the thirst consumes you? What happens when your control is gone? When some frightened soul stands trembling and instinct tells you to move on? Will you forgive yourself that evening? Will I forgive myself for you? Will our love survive the horror of what I begged you not to do? You think my sacrifice is turning you? No ... My sacrifice is leaving you human. Every night I stand beside paradise and choose to walk away. Every night I hear your heartbeat; I see that vein of life in your neck. Every night... I save you from me. This is the price of forever the ENDLESS road beneath the night the years that blur together until wrong no longer feels like wrong or right This, David, ... is the price of forever the death that never truly dies you see a promise, I see a coffin waiting behind your hopeful eyes No. You say there is no cure. You say there is no dawn. You say this darkness is forever. David... No! You tell me love cannot conquer this? You tell me eternity cannot be undone? You tell me to accept the impossible? Then I reject your forever. I REJECT YOUR CURSE! I REJECT YOUR PRISON! David, stop... If immortality stole your life... then I will steal it BACK!!!! If there is magic... I'll find it! (he'll find it) If there is a legend... I'll chase it! (He'll chase it) If there is a god... I'll beg him! (He'll beg) If there is a devil... I'll bargain! (He'll bargain) And if the whole world says it's impossible... THEN I'LL PROVE THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD WRONG! I swear this on every drop of blood in my veins... I will find a way, my love ... TO MAKE YOU HUMAN AGAIN! ...David?
