[Verse 1]
She was crazy (she was beautiful)
I guess she had to be
And I was angry (you were blind)
Because I could not see
Except for what her cigarettes had done to her skin
I should have known the outside
Would reveal what was within

[Chorus]
But she was burning herself
And her hair was filled with ashes
She was burning herself
And her life became a flame
She was burning herself
And the flame became her passion
She was burning herself
And her passion
Her passion was her pain

[Verse 2]
She was trusting (you could have saved her too)
All hope had passed for her
And I was lusting (and she gave to you)
That's all I asked of her
[Verse 3]
The marks upon her body
And the marks upon her mind
I knew I could have erased them
If I'd only taken the time

[Chorus]
But she was burning herself
And her hair was filled with ashes
She was burning herself
And her life became a flame
She was burning herself
And the flame became her passion
She was burning herself
And her passion
Her passion was her pain

[Verse 4]
I never saw her do it
I only saw the scars
I never could imagine
What could make her go that far

[Verse 5]
I wondered was she driven
By desperate need to feel
To find out she was really living
To discover life was real
[Verse 6]
Or was it that the pain
Slicing through her like a knife
Was easier to take
Than the emptiness of life?

[Verse 7]
Had a strange sense of drama
Caught her inside a role
Or was she trying to cauterize
The chancres on her soul?

[Outro]
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
Her passion was her pain