Fever Breaks

Try and forget it yet it keeps you awake

Live to regret it when the fever breaks

Lighting up a cigarette even the slow hand shakes

But it's a cold sweat when the fever breaks

If there is no light, if there is no end in sight

Then this just might not be a tunnel

If it were up to me, I wouldn't make that mistake

But history repeats and then the fever breaks

I know what it's like to feel fear

There's been so much confusion

The point is never clear but make it without illusion

Call it an intrusion if you will, if that's what it takes

It's the sound of mind when the fever breaks

It's all parlour talk at the dead man's wake

Bring out the winding sheets when the fever breaks

A slow and painful death ends faster than the eye can see

Taking your last breath feels like eternity

Catching a cool breeze across a late summer lake

Feel the chill of autumn as the fever breaks