[Verse 1] The walls don’t feel like walls anymore They feel like something that’s watching the door Paint is peeling like tired skin And I can’t remember where I begin The clock ticks slower when I look away Like it knows I’m trying to escape the day The air is thick with a stale, low hum Like the house is waiting for what I’ve become [Pre-Chorus] Every corner holds its breath too tight Every shadow rehearses the light And I swear the floorboards shift when I sleep Like something is learning how to creep [Chorus] Cabin fever, crawling under my skull A quiet thing that refuses to dull It speaks in the static behind my teeth Saying there’s nothing left underneath Cabin fever, no fever at all Just a slow collapse inside these walls Where the exit forgets how to be real And the room learns how I feel [Verse 2] The mirror doesn’t quite reflect me right It hesitates like it lost the fight My face arrives a second too late Like it’s been dragged through a heavier state I hear my name in the plumbing lines In the drip of something that used to be mine And the silence isn’t empty, it’s full Of something patient and terrible [Pre-Chorus] I tried to count the days by hand But the numbers wouldn’t understand They bled together, soft and thin Like the walls were folding me back in [Chorus] Cabin fever, crawling under my skull A quiet thing that refuses to dull It speaks in the static behind my teeth Saying there’s nothing left underneath Cabin fever, no fever at all Just a slow collapse inside these walls Where the exit forgets how to be real And the room learns how I feel [Bridge] I stopped knocking a while ago The door stopped answering back, you know Now it just stands there, perfectly kind While something else locks it from the inside If I scream, it comes out slow Like the room is deciding what I should know And every sound that I ever made Is still here, just slightly delayed [Final Chorus] Cabin fever, skin against closing air A thought that grows teeth in the chair No rescue line, no distant sun Just the slow belief that I’ve already won Cabin fever, the house and I Sharing the same unfinished lie And I don’t know which one is real The room I’m in or the one I feel [Outro] The lights don’t flicker anymore They blink like they’re learning a lore And I stay still, because I swear Something is already out there… in here
