Circuits of Fever

Album: Common Existence (2009)
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  • You are my blanked out pages
    All the wasted spaces
    The old weapons vanished
    Spit blood at dawn, closed forever

    You're an ivory icon
    Held in glass, captive
    You're a falling column
    Sharp little teeth kiss goodnight

    He was upside down and drifting in an
    Endless ocean of night
    The terror came in waves, each one
    Pushing him further from the shore

    You are a fractured mirror
    Silver paper in the wind
    A desperate measure
    Sharp little circuits of fever

    I can feel the unslept hours
    See all the traces
    I can hear the ticking of clocks
    Old record running down
    You can't replace it
    You get distracted by the sound

    He hears an ocean in the dial tone
    Every night, after the sleeping pill goes down
    He wants to believe that he doesn't exist
    He's everywhere and he's nowhere all at once

    We'll fill the blanked out page
    We'll burn the traces
    We'll turn the unslept hours to days
    Old record running down
    We'll flip it over and sing the songs
    We've never heard. Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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