Fever Made Me

Blue pulse Red bloom No cure Make room No doctor No prayer Just heat In the air Fever in the plaster Fever in the dish Fever taking inventory Of every unsaid wish Cold spoon on the counter Window cracked at dawn Whole room looked innocent Then the fever turned it on Burned my given name to vapor Lit up every wire Dragged the quiet out of me And fed it to the fire I was soft static Half erased in skin Then the fever found the weak spot And put the voltage in No, I didn't come here holy No, I didn't come here clean Something hot and half feral Cut me open at the seam Fever made me Wrote my name in heat Burned the old one off And dropped me on the beat Fever made me Red on blue on black Every dead little circuit Came alive like that Fever made me Shake then sing Now the whole room changes When I breathe in La fiebre me hizo así (The fever made me this way) La fiebre me hizo así (The fever made me this way) Hot blood, white light Now look at me Shamisen in the fracture Palmas in the wall Taiko in my ribcage Making shadows fall Violin gone rabid Steel under the bass Girls in stacked-up harmonies Putting teeth on grace Don't cool me down now Don't smooth me out I like the sound better When it bites the mouth I like my halo crooked I like my pulse too fast I like that split-second terror Right before the room goes past No, I didn't come here ready No, I didn't come here cured Something bright and unrehearsed Hit my body like a word Fever made me Wrote my name in heat Burned the old one off And dropped me on the beat Fever made me Red on blue on black Every dead little circuit Came alive like that Fever made me Shake then sing Now the whole room changes When I breathe in La fiebre me hizo así (The fever made me this way) La fiebre me hizo así (The fever made me this way) Hot blood, white light Now look at me No mother tongue Could cage this throat No one genre Could hold this voltage I came in looking human I left like a signal flare Gold in the pupils Mercury in the prayer If you want the miracle Watch what it ate My pulse bit through the metronome And learned to levitate Ta-ka dhin-na (percussive drum syllables) Split the grid Ta-ka dhin-na (percussive drum syllables) Skin don't fit Hey Hey La fiebre me hizo así (The fever made me this way) Hey Now the sparks speak through me Fever made me Wrote my name in heat Turned my nerves to drums And my mouth to mercury Fever made me Red on gold on black Every locked little answer Blew the whole room back Fever made me Shake then sing Now the whole room changes When I breathe in Blue pulse Red bloom No cure Make room