Album: Burn (2000)
Charted: 42
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  • Do you wanna be a poet and write
    Do you wanna be an actor up in lights
    Do you wanna be a soldier and fight for love
    Do you wanna travel the world
    Do you wanna be a diver for pearls
    Or climb a mountain and touch the clouds above

    Be anyone you want to be
    Bring to life your fantasies
    But I want something in return

    I want you to burn
    Burn for me, baby
    Like a candle in my night (I want you to burn)
    Oh, burn
    Burn for me, burn for me

    Are you gonna be a gambler and deal
    Are you gonna be a doctor and heal
    Or go to heaven and touch God's face
    Are you gonna be a dreamer who sleeps
    Are you gonna be a sinner who weeps
    Or an angel under grace

    I'll lay down on your bed of coals
    Offer up my heart and soul
    But in return

    I want you to burn
    Burn for me, baby
    Like a candle in my night (I want you to burn)
    Oh, burn
    Burn for me, burn for me (me)

    (Oh) I want you to burn, baby
    (Oh) oh

    Laugh for me, cry for me
    Pray for me, fly for me
    Live for me, die for us

    I want you to burn
    Burn for me, baby
    Like a candle in my night (I want you to burn)
    Oh, burn
    Burn for me, burn for me, yeah

    (Burn for me) oh yeah, I want you to burn
    I want you to burn (like a candle) for me, baby, ooh yeah
    (I want you to burn) burn for me, yeah
    Yeah, I want you to burn, I want you to burn (like a candle)
    For me, baby, (I want you to burn) oh yeah, burn for me Writer/s: Filippina Lydia Arena, Pamela P. Reswick, Stephen E. Werfel
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Am from Thousand IslandsThis castle was not abandoned FYI at the time this video was shot. It had been abandoned several years before as the story goes a man built this for his wife who died suddenly. He then stopped building it and yes it was abandoned for 73 years (1904 -1977). Then in 1977 The Thousand Islands Bridge Authority took over and has worked on it ever since restoring the castle. So for them to say they filmed this video in an abandon castle is not accurate since it was filmed in 2000. It's a beautiful castle https://www.boldtcastle.com/visitorinfo/
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