Crazy Man Michael Natalie Merchant

[Verse 1]
Within the fire and out upon the sea
Crazy man Michael was walking
He met with a raven with eyes black as coal
And shortly they were talking
"Your future, your future I will tell to you
Your future you often have asked me
Your true love will die by your own right hand
And crazy man Michael will cursed be"

[Verse 2]
Oh, Michael he ranted and Michael he raved
And he beat at the four winds with his fists-o
Well, he laughed and he cried, he shouted and he swore
For his mad mind entrapped him with a fist-hold
"You speak with an evil, you speak with a hate
You speak for the devil that haunts me
For is she not the fairest in all the broad land?
Your sorcerer's words are to taunt me"

[Verse 3]
Well, he took out his dagger of fine and broad steel
And he struck down the raven through the heart-o
Well, the bird fluttered long and the sky it did spin
And this cold earth did wonder 'round startled
"Oh, where is the raven that I struck down dead
That here did lie on the ground-o?
I see my true love with a wound so red
Where her lover's heart it did pound-o