What are the lyrics to ‘Die With a Smile,’ the Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars collaboration?

The reason for Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ online winking at each other on social media is now clear for all to see, with the duo releasing their first ever collaboration, ‘Die With a Smile,’ on Thursday (August 15).

The soulful ballad’s vintage and very much country-inspired music video takes us back to Nashville in the 1970s, with the pop superstars sporting matching light blue suits and red shirts. A moustached Mars’ look is completed with a white cowboy hat, while Gaga, her hair stacked into a pile, grasps a cigarette, either between her lips or fingers, throughout the four-minute, 12-second clip.

Other that than, there’s nothing overly complex about the video. Mars is seen playing a hollow-body electric guitar and sings the first verse, while Gaga is on the piano and takes the second.

‘Die With a Smile’ lyrics

(Ooh, ooh)

I, I just woke up from a dream

Where you and I had to say goodbye

And I don’t know what it all means

But since I survived, I realized

Wherever you go, that’s where I’ll follow

Nobody’s promised tomorrow

So I’ma love you every night like it’s the last night

Like it’s the last night

If the world was ending

I’d wanna be next to you

If the party was over

And our time on Earth was through

I’d wanna hold you just for a while

And die with a smile

If the world was ending

I’d wanna be next to you

(Ooh, ooh)

Ooh, lost, lost in the words that we scream

I don’t even wanna do this anymore

’Cause you already know what you mean to me

And our love’s the only one worth fighting for

Wherever you go, that’s where I’ll follow

Nobody’s promised tomorrow

So I’ma love you every night like it’s the last night

Like it’s the last night

If the world was ending

I’d wanna be next to you

If the party was over

And our time on Earth was through

I’d wanna hold you just for a while

And die with a smile

If the world was ending

I’d wanna be next to you

Right next to you

Next to you

Right next to you

Oh-oh

If the world was ending

I’d wanna be next to you

If the party was over

And our time on Earth was through

I’d wanna hold you just for a while

And die with a smile

If the world was ending

I’d wanna be next to you

If the world was ending

I’d wanna be next to you

(Ooh, ooh)

I’d wanna be next to you

What have Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars said about each other?

In the press release for the song, the pair spoke about each other in glowing terms, as you would expect, with Gaga revealing Mars was the instigator for the collaboration.

“Bruno and I have a lot of mutual respect for each other and were talking about collaborating,” says Gaga. “I was finishing up my own album in Malibu and one night after a long day he asked me to come to his studio to hear something he was working on. It was around midnight when I got there and I was blown away when I heard what he had started making. We stayed up all night and finished writing and recording the song. Bruno’s talent is beyond explanation. His musicianship and vision is next level. There’s no one like him.”

Mars was equally complimentary, if a little briefer: “Getting to work with Gaga has been an honor. She’s an icon and she makes this song magical. I’m so excited for everyone to hear it.”