Among the Living

Among the Living - Marketa Irglova/Siggi String Quartet/Aida Shahghasemi

Lyrics by：Márketa Irglová

Composed by：Márketa Irglová

All I could have would have should have told you

All I never even thought to ask you

Plays on my mind like a broken record

And I can not bring myself to speak

All that there was left for you to teach me

All you'd try to make me understand

Isn't lost on me now that you have left me

Proving nothing ever goes as planned

Since you've been gone I have been frozen

Unable to feel

Your leaving stripped the world of meaning

Tell me how do I go on

When I see nothing but fog now

All around me pillars of smoke rise

Where our dreams burned to the ground

There is no light to be found

I'm swimming in a deep lake of memories

I walk when I can't sleep

And all I do is think about you

And wish that you were still here

Tell me it's all been a terrible dream

The kind where you want to but

Can not scream

Tell me I'll wake up and all will be as before

I'll be back in our hometown and

You will walk through the door

I never knew I had so much to lose

Until I lost you

And I wonder if you can forgive me

For all the times I have done you wrong

I'd give anything just to embrace you

Among the living where you belong

Somebody tell me how to make peace

With circumstance begotten of mistakes

How to accept that there can be no second chances

When your soul escapes for grief and your heart breaks

Breaks into a thousand little pieces

Shatters like a cup that used to keep

Your memories your dreams and your desires and

Now all you want to do is go to sleep and

Sleep until the living nightmare is over

Sleep until the pain of it is no more

Until the thought of facing the world doesn't petrify you

And you can pick yourself up off the floor

Mother Mary won't you keep me steady

For my mind is weary and heavy is my heart

I'm still not sure if I can even do this

Could you bring me right back to the start

There is so much about the past that I'd like to change

To take all of the pieces apart to re-arrange

The complex puzzle that is life

Ever-changing with each choice one makes

I was young I was foolish I was restless

I made many mistakes

Azrael take good care of my baby

Raphael help ease the pain

Gabriel will you take my message to him

Chamuel let us know some peace

Jophiel please illuminate this dark and lonely time

Zadkiel let compassion grace each step of this steep and rocky climb

Jeremiel mercy of God will you be his guide

Help my brother journey safely over to the other side

Beyond my reach and into your arms

Profoundly calm and peaceful a place

Life on earth can be so hard

They are better off there in some ways

Though I grieve now though I cry

This is not our last goodbye

We will meet again I am sure

Another time another life

Brother sister mother wife

For love does even death endure

May the love between us allow me to find you

When we are reborn in another form

I shall live the days

I have left on this earth in honor of you

May God bless and keep you