In this dusty little railroad town   Smack in the heart of the bible belt   Where nothing ever changes   While nothing remains the same   When first I saw the raven   Lean against the wind   I said who's the girl   With the tattoo on her skin   I followed her home   She lives down by the water   My friend Teddy told me   She's the Frenchman's daughter      On this day of reckoning   I'm riding shotgun with you   Tangled twisted strands of love   Hanging from above      Chorus:   I'm burnin for you   Burnin for you   We were first time lovers   In a secret rendezvous   Burnin, burnin   Burnin for you      When I come knocking on her front door   The neighbour said she don't live there no more      Well she moved from the country   down to the city   Where the scene was dark   And the street was gritty   In the hustle and bustle and all the commotion   She got addicted to the locomotion      On this day of reckoning   By the old wooden bridge   I wait for you   Tangled twisted strands of love   Hanging from above      Chorus      I remember the smell of the burning leaves   And we were making love   She was like a young Georgia O'Keefe   From another time   In an old abandoned railroad shack   On should never go   Where anything can happen   When the zephyr blows      On this day of reckoning   I'm calling to you   Tangled twisted strands of love   Hanging from above      Chorus      The phone rings she said   I can't tell you where I'm calling from   Cause my papa's on the lam   For something shady that he's done      There hangs a tale of love      For the first time   For the first time