I Burn Today

I knew a girl

with sad blue eyes

put out the feast

I lost my psychic prize

I did forget

what the tarot maid did say

I burn today

I burn today

our house was filled

with many birds

she said to me I can understand their words

the land will shake, so run away

(chorus)

I burn today

I burn today

yesterday I will burn

for the times

I did not learn

she said have fun

its time has come

hold my heart strings

and have yourself a strum

no, nevermore

this song will we play

I burn today eh

I burn today

and as I drank

in old Paris

she lay her cards

just to see what she would see

down by the water you'll find your happy days

(chorus)

I ran so fast

into the north

no snow on me

and so he said thenceforth,

I let snow fall

on frozen yesterday

I burn today

I burn today

and if my head

is hanging down

I feel her arms

and her legs are all around

and we make love

beside the waterway

(chorus)

behold the rose

of Jericho

how many lives

I really do not know

though with the rain

I know it will return

today I burn

today I burn