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 tuday

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

I burn today

And as I drank in old Paris

She laid 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

Yesterday 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

Yesterday 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