Feverbreak - Hermitude, Basenji

Her hair ablaze with auburn strands

Her eyes are glazed with worry

Pale hands that reach from the water

Cross-legged on the dock

Moonshine upon the surface

She’s a body, not herself

Not a lover but a service

Took too long to see that she was just a bosom for his cheek

Just a pillow for his head

Just a scream amidst the reeds tangled 'round and 'round her legs

But she prayed that he would see that though the love was strong enough

She was drowning

See here lay the problem

Resting on the riverbed

Smothered in sand and pyrite

It’s if her needs had died

For he brushed them to the side

As an old writer brushes paper from his desk

But as you stare you see it’s blank

Two wrongs don’t make a right

Two hands stay intertwined

These days turn into night with quick succession causing fright

She can’t control the time

She can’t escape the lime that tastes so goddamn bittersweet

So she’ll see him tonight

I’m burning can you help me break the fever?

Never needed anything more than your real love

We’re moving our hands and our bodies like we’re liquid

I’m burning can you help me break the fever?

These days are very vague

There’s nothing I can say

You took my joy along with the TV

Are you kidding me?

I walk alone at dusk

When the bitter cold can cut

Through tension on the shoulders

Let the smoke fill up my lungs

I’m looking forward to the evening

Yeah I’m trying very hard to seem complete

But I really hope secretly that you can see me

Oh can you see what you’ve done to me?

I’m burning can you help me break the fever?

Never needed anything more than your real love

We’re moving our hands and our bodies like we’re liquid

I’m burning can you help me break the fever?

Pour another drink, maybe seven, just to forget

I should’ve told you

You were a cold man

You were unfeeling

Unknowingly broken

But I’ll see you tonight yeah

Yeah I’ll see you tonight

A woman is not a bed

A love is not a home

Her heart would’ve walked barefoot on hot coals

That’s why he’s now alone

He never touched her words

He barely touched her bones

Before you lay with a lucid writer

Ask, «Are you bold?»

I’m burning can you help me break the fever?

Never needed anything more than your real love

We’re moving our hands and our bodies like we’re liquid

Pour another drink, maybe seven, just to forget

I should’ve told you

You were a cold man

You were unfeeling

Unknowingly broken

But I’ll see you tonight yeah

Yeah I’ll see you tonight

I’m burning can you help me break the fever?

Never needed anything more than your real love

We’re moving our hands and our bodies like they’re liquid

Pour another drink, maybe seven, just to forget

I should’ve told you

You were a cold man

You were unfeeling

Unknowingly broken

But I’ll see you tonight yeah

Yeah I’ll see you tonight