Burning the bridge just to watch the smoke rise
There’s a beautiful hunger behind all these eyes
It’s rising like fever, it’s thick in the air
Dragging the darkness from under the stair
I’m losing the anchor, I’m letting it flow
Into the fever, wherever you go
The skin is all sweating, the pulse is a drum
Waiting for something that’s never to come.
[Pre-Chorus]
It’s crawling beneath me, it’s under the skin
A cycle of shadows where I can begin
To lose all my senses, to lose all my sight
Becoming the creature that lives in the night.
[Chorus]
Oh, it’s the shadow fever, burning in the vein
A symphony of static, a rhythm of pain
I’m caught in the circle, I’m dancing alone
With a heart made of fire and a spirit of stone
Let it rise, let it bloom, let it take back the light
I’m feeding the fever with the dark of the night.
[Verse 2]
The walls are all closing, the room is too small
But I hear the rhythm, I answer the call
The deeper I’m sinking, the brighter the glow
There’s nowhere to stay and there’s nowhere to go
The demons are waking, they’re whispering low
They want the surrender, they want the final show
I’m tracing the patterns that burn in the floor
I’m losing the key to the locks on the door.
[Bridge]
Is it the heat? Or just the beat?
Dragging me down to the cold concrete.
Let it burn! Let it rise!
I see the truth behind all the lies!
[Chorus]
Oh, it’s the shadow fever, burning in the vein
A symphony of static, a rhythm of pain
I’m caught in the circle, I’m dancing alone
With a heart made of fire and a spirit of stone
Let it rise, let it bloom, let it take back the light
I’m feeding the fever with the dark of the night.
[Extended Chorus]
Oh, it’s the shadow fever, burning in the vein
A symphony of static, a rhythm of pain
I’m caught in the circle, I’m dancing alone
With a heart made of fire and a spirit of stone
Let it rise, let it bloom, let it take back the light
I’m feeding the fever with the dark of the night.
[Spoken Outro]
The fever... it never breaks.
It just finds... a new shadow... to call home.