I Burn Today

I knew a girl with sad blue eyes

But at 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"

I burn today

I burn today

Yes today, I will burn

For the times I did not learn

She said, "Have fun, it's time has come

Hold my heart strings and have yourself a strum

No, nevermore this song will we play"

I burn today

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"

I burn today

I burn today

Yes today, I will burn

For the times I did not learn

I ran so fast into the north

No snow on me and so you 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

I burn today

I burn today

Yes today, I will burn

For the times I did not learn

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