Pop version of Lenore and Haymitch story

INTRO - FEMALE, WHISPERED

I loved you like the dawn loved the darkness,

Like the last star loves the night.

You were never promised tomorrow,

But I gave you a reason to try.

VERSE 1 - FEMALE

You were a boy who'd never been promised

A tomorrow he could call his own,

Then I became the wish you whispered

When you thought that you were all alone.

And this is love, my darling,

Not a promise nothing hurts,

But someone placing flowers

In the ruins of your world.

a song the Capitol couldn't understand,

Wildflowers growing where hope was buried in the sand.

And if all of Panem burned tonight,

And you and I were all that survived,

I wouldn't grieve I wouldn't cry I'd be just fine

With your broken heart beside mine.

CHORUS - FEMALE

Oh, Haymitch, what a horrid thing to learn,

That hearts can find a home in a world that loves to burn.

It was love that got you reaped and I'm sorry that you loved meeee.

Oh, Haymitch, if the morning comes without me,

And the birds forget my tune

And I'd burn a thousand worlds

Just to spend one more with you.

VERSE 2 - FEMALE, QUIETER

The cruelest thing about President Snow

That he, too, had loved a covey girl

"She's delightful to look at,"

Her bright colors caught the light,

And oh, how she seemed to love you—

But those words could never hold

The meaning of what I knew.

I didn't simply love you, darling.

I loved you like all fire

There might have been another time,

Another place beneath the sun,

Where we'd have lived to grow old

And our story wouldn't end undone.

But the Capitol stole more than our lives,

More than the years we couldn't save.

It stole the futures that make life worth living,

And the promises we never got to make.

VERSE 3 - MALE, SOFT AND TREMBLING

The sun still rises, my love.

This I cannot forgive.

It spills across the mountains

As if you're still here, as if you still live.

As if the world has not grown smaller,

As if the sky still knows your name,

As if I haven't learned how quiet

A morning can become after the flame.

I will grieve you for a lifetime,

For I didn't simply love you—

I loved you like all fire.

And no one could replace you,

No one could undo the years.

My heart may not always be broken,

But Lenore, you'll live inside its tears.

VERSE 4 - MALE, WITH PIANO ONLY

If I'd known that moment was our last,

I'd have memorized your smile.

I'd have held you just a little longer,

Asked you to sing for me awhile.

You were the songbird I will never forget,

The forbidden melody that stays,

And I would trade a thousand tomorrows

For one more ordinary day.

I thought we'd have the time, my love.

I thought we'd get to grow old.

I thought I'd have a thousand chances

To say the things I never told.

But now I search the morning light

For a girl I cannot find,

And every dawn becomes a doorway

To the life you left behind.

Lenore...

And the silence answers nothing.

Quoth the Raven "Nevermore"

FINAL CHORUS - BOTH, OVERLAPPING VOCALS

FEMALE:

I loved you like the dawn loved darkness,

Like the wildflowers love the rain.

If I could choose this life again,

I'd choose you through every pain.

MALE:

The sun still rises, my darling,

But it never feels the same.

I have lived through every winter,

Still I whisper your name.

BOTH:

I loved you like all fire.

I loved you past the end.

You were my home, my heart, my morning—

OUTRO - MALE, BARELY AUDIBLE

The sun still rises, Lenore.

I suppose it always will.

But somewhere in the morning,

I'm waiting for you still.

BOTH - WHISPERED:

All fire.

Forever.

Nevermore.