Now I know what it takes to be near you.
But I can’t seem to give you the slip.
And how I feel like a drowning man swimming for the sinking ship.
So I’ll come clean.
I think it’s time. You ought to know.
Spanish fire can burn you down.
Spanish fire can burn you right down.
I’ve always hoped for a love like this.
But now it feels like cold hands around my neck.
Everybody loves a happy ending.
Just like everybody loves a good car wreck.
You can’t knock down a heart of stone with wishing well dimes, but...
Spanish fire can burn you down.
Spanish fire...
It only gets harder the older I get.
I never really forgive, I never really forget.
I just keep chalking it up and putting it down to experience.
But the one thing I’ve found is...
Spanish fire can burn you down.
Spanish fire can burn you right down.
Spanish fire...
Spanish fire...
credits
from JVA - JEROAN VAN AICHEN: Ancient Chinese Secret,
released March 19, 2000
Tim Ellis: Steel-string guitar
Nancy Hess: Harmony vocals
JVA: Acoustic guitar / Guitaron / Marimba / Percussion /
Piano / Vocals
The Oakland singer's latest album imagines the power struggle between man and nature as a slow, steady tempest of dark folk. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 20, 2019