Set out from Saint Joe on no ordinary journey
Headed down to New Orleans, working in the skin game
But when I saw you, down by the muddy river
I had to have you, so I became your prisoner

It's been and long time and things have gotten crazy
I never thought that it could turn out this way
I've got the notion, I'd swim the ocean for your love
It's not devotion, it's just this burning in my heart

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I'm burning, burning, burning with desire
Burning, captive of your fire

It won't be easy telling all the folks at home
They won't believe me and they won't like it at all
I never thought that I could turn my back on them
It's just this burning, it's just this burning from within

Chorus