Chasing love, embracing death

I can't escape worldly love, but love is oh, so elusive

There's evidence it exists, but really nothing conclusive

There's the emotions love produces; people feeling happy, mad, sad

but I can't let my greatest love affair be the one I never had

I can't escape worldly death, and death is oh, so around me

and at the end of the show it will have finally found me

There's the emotions death produces; people feeling confused, mad, sad

but I can't let the greatest part of death be the life I never had

One will lift me up, while the other will have me falling

I can't dwell on which is which because each will always be calling

Being afraid to die means being afraid to live

Being afraid to love means being afraid to forgive

From this day on, until my very last breath

I'll live life by chasing love and love life by embracing death