I Burn Today - Frank Black

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

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
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 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

I burn tody
I burn today

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