E                             A
I am born in the reeds, I'm an idea of magnitude
  E                           B7
Giving birth to itself ad infinitum
  C#m                            A
I am Jefferson's torch in a bright, stellar majesty


[Chorus]
   E                   B                A
Oh I'm burning, oh I'm burning, oh I'm burning
   C#m                  B                 A                E
Yes I'm burning, oh I'm burning, yes I'm burning for thee


[Verse 2]
      E                          A
We were measured in the dark by timetabled tragedy
   E                             B
There's a real turn of age in disaster
     C#m                    A
Now I'm firing a well our politicians gave to ruin


[Chorus]
  E                    B                   A
'Till I'm burning, oh I'm burning, yes I'm burning
   C#m                 B                    A            E
Oh I'm burning, oh I'm burning, yes I'm burning for thee


[Bridge]
   A                                               E
River run run run run run run run river through me
    A
Through the mud mud mud mud mud
    C#m          B               F#m
Let me feel, let me feel, let me feel you


[Interlude]
E - B - C#m - A - F#m - E - B

F#m - F#m - A - A - F#m - F#m - C#m - B - F#m - F#m - A - A


[Chorus]
      E                   B            A
Oh I'm burning, oh I'm burning, oh I'm burning
       C#m                 B              A             E
Yes I'm burning, oh I'm burning, oh I'm burning for thee


[Bridge]
    A                                             E
River run run run run run run run river through me
     A
Through the mud mud mud mud mud
      C#m          B                 F#m
Let me feel, let me feel, let me feel you


[Interlude 2]
E - B - C#m - A - F#m - E - B


[Verse 3]
       E                                  A
Now come out from your cups, find your love in the doorways
        E                             B
Have a care to fill the vessel of your heart
        C#m
Hold me tight through the storms
           A
And the winds of revolution


[Chorus]
          E              B                  A
And always burning, oh he's burning, oh he's burning
           C#m            B                A
Oh he's burning, yes he's burning, oh he's burning
            C#m            B                 A              E
Oh he's burning, yes he's burning, oh he's burning for thee