Blood or Forever

[Verse 1]
You’re standing in the candlelight
Bare feet on the freezing stone
You tremble when you say my name
Yet still you do not turn and run
Your pulse is like a ringing bell
It calls me closer
Pulls me in
Your eyes are asking who I am
My hunger asks the same thing
[Chorus]
Blood or forever?
Tell me what am I to choose
Do I love you as I lose you
Or lose myself
Refuse the dawn?
Blood or forever?
If I spare you
Time will steal you
If I claim you
Night will keep you
Either way
My soul is gone
[Verse 2]
Your hair has caught a drop of wax
It glitters like a fragile crown
I reach to brush it from your skin
My hand remembers how to shake
I see a future in your face
I see an ending in your throat
One kiss could make your story stop
One kiss could make it never fade
[Chorus]
Blood or forever?
Tell me what am I to choose
Do I love you as I lose you
Or lose myself
Refuse the dawn?
Blood or forever?
If I spare you
Time will steal you
If I claim you
Night will keep you
Either way
My soul is gone
[Bridge]
You whisper
"Is this mercy?"
You whisper
"Is this fate?"
You say
"I’d rather walk with you
Than walk away too late" (oh)
But do you know the thirst
The thirst
The quiet years that never end?
To save you I must curse you
To save you I must sin again
[Chorus]
Blood or forever?
Tell me what am I to choose
Do I love you as I lose you
Or lose myself
Refuse the dawn?
Blood or forever?
If I turn you
You will hate me
If I leave you
Night will break me
Either way
My soul is gone
[Outro]
So close your eyes
My fragile heart
One way we part
One way we burn
I’ll hold you till the candles die
And pray I never
Pray I never
Pray I never make the choice I’ve earned

Gothic Broadway ballad with lush orchestra, pipe organ swells, and timpani rolls. Deep male vocals, rich vibrato, starting in an intimate low register over sparse strings and piano, then building to a dramatic, full-ensemble climax with choir pads and cymbal crashes. Final chorus blooms with soaring high notes and sustained chords, then resolves in a quiet, uneasy cadence., musical, male vocals, classical, deep