Take a card,
any card,
I'll take the lover,
I'll play the fool.
Take a coin,
any coin,
choose the method and I will choose the tool.
If I hadn't died so many times,
I'd never be so much alive.
Yet every time I feel the clangs of birth,
my only instinct is to survive.
Take a man,
any man,
I'll take the lover,
I'll play the fool.
Take a woman,
any woman,
you'll play the empress,
you'll play the moon.
If we hadn't been so very close,
we'd never be together now.
This thing is bigger than both of us,
and it burns my heart and hurts my head.
I have to hold my hips and take my breath,
as I love you life, I love you little death.
Take a man,
take a part,
could be the match, could be the night.
Take a coin,
any coin,
could land in shadow,
could land in light.
If we hadn't died so many times,
we'd never be together now.
This thing is bigger than both of us,
and it burns my heart and hurts my head.
I have to hold my hips and take my breath,
as I love you life, I love you little death.
Oh, change,
turn about,
rip my world inside out.
Take my hand,
heal my eye.
Help me change, help me die.
If we hadn't died so many times,
we'd never be together now.
This thing is bigger than both of us,
and it burns my heart and hurts my head.
I have to hold my hips and take my breath,
as I love you life, I love you little death.