[Intro: Piano and cello exchange the three-note motif]

[Verse 1]
You found me dressed and sitting up at dawn,
The sheets untouched, the eastern lamps still on.
A cup went cold between my covered hands;
Its dying steam rose thin as silver strands.
You asked which battlefield had brought this fear.
I said, "No field. I saw you vanish here."
Your face had faded under crimson skies;
No answer came, however hard I cried.

[Pre-Chorus]
You pressed my glove against your living cheek.
I knew the words but could not make them speak.
You said, "A dream is not a written law."
I saw the blood return in all I saw.

[Chorus]
You are what I cannot lose,
The one fate must not choose.
Let the heavens take my rank, my name, my breath;
I will not surrender you to death.
You are what I cannot lose.
Tell me there is still a path to choose.

[Verse 2]
You said my love had built a guarded room,
Then barred the door against imagined doom.
"Do not preserve me like a thing of glass,
Too precious for a living hand to grasp."
I promised I would listen, promised sleep,
Then counted every breath you had to keep.
The more you asked me not to live afraid,
The more I searched for bargains to be made.

[Pre-Chorus]
You touched the cracked insignia at my chest.
"Love does not pass or fail a trial or test."
I kissed your palm and heard the warning fade,
Already seeking powers love forbade.

[Instrumental Break: Clean guitar and cello in opposing keys]

[Bridge]
"Hold me without closing tight.
Love me here, within this life.
I am not saved by power you pursue."
I answered, "I cannot bury you."

[Verse 3]
Your voice met mine for one suspended line,
Two separate fears aligned for half a time.
Then you lay sleeping in the morning glow
While I kept watch for threats you could not know.
Two suns appeared as ghosts within the glass;
One looked like future, one resembled past.

[Final Chorus]
You are what I cannot lose,
And that is why I cannot choose.
I would trade the order, law and breath
For one forbidden way to master death.
Yet love is not a thing I can refuse;
You are what I cannot lose.

[Outro: Open hand, black glove, fading piano]