Storyline Fever - Purple Mountains

On occasion, we all do battle with motivational paralysis

Unable to perform some simple task

Trapped at the stage of analysis

Thoughts of the shortness of life may beget

Bouts of shortness of breath in your chest

Doubts about the worth of the nights you got left

Crowding out all but fear and regret

You got storyline fever, storyline flu

It’s filtering how everything looks to you

Don’t you reckon it’s affecting your attitude?

Storyline fever got its hooks in you

Storyline fever got its hooks in you

You took your love to the marketplace

In the wanting corner of a Western state

Where every other shopper is a basket case

Just relies on the horizon, forms a frowning face

Hanging around those haunts at night

Where half the clientele was part poltergeist

Grinding an axe against all that exists

Minus their protected exceptions to it

You got storyline fever, storyline flu

Apparently impairing your point of view

It’s making horseshit sound true to you

Now it’s impacting how you’re acting too

Now it’s impacting how you’re acting too

Got a comb over cut circa Abscam sting

Make a better Larry than Lizard King

But you got to find a way to make it work

'Cause your feet is where your demons lurk

When you’re seller and commodity

You gotta sell yourself immodestly

Turn your pedestal into a carving board

If that’s what the audience is starving for

You got storyline fever, storyline flu

You’re filtering how everything looks to you

Don’t you reckon it’s affecting your attitude?

Storyline fever got its hooks in you

Storyline fever got its hooks in you