Frank Black Lyrics
"I Burn Today"

I knew a girl
Beside the wife
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 our fun
Its time has come
Hold my heart strings
And have yourself a strum
No never more
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 you 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 send them forth
I let snow fall
Unfrozen yesterday
I burn today, I burn today

And if my hair
Is hanging down
I feel out arms and 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 jarapo
How many lives
I really do not know
Go with the rain
I know it will return
Today i burn, today i burn