You Want Fire

What a day for thunder
Still got me jumping with its boom
She stands outside my door
No clouds above her dreaming head

She calls to me with the wicked eyes of childhood
She calls to me but I can't go to her
She calls to me and I must pretend that I don't hear
She says I know what you want, I know what you really want

She brings me water
She shakes from the morning leaves
She lets rays of light into my room
She says that she wants me
And it's getting hard to bear here
Don't know how long I can resist

She comes to me and dances in the moon outside my window
She comes to me as I lay sleeping
She comes to me and disappears as I awake
Saying I know what you want, I know what you really want

Thinking back through time's endless pearls
I was hardly a man, she was much more than a girl
And I saw ashes in the springtime, sprinkled in the air
And she was naked but the braids in her long dark hair
And she said

I know what you want
I know what you really want but
You ain't never never never gonna get it,
No no no no
If you want fire
If you want fire you know
You've got to learn to burn
You've got to learn to burn, yeah
And I know there will never be another day like this day
Never be another, never be another day, yeah, yeah
Never be another, never be another day
Like today