[Intro — distorted, looping synth, almost uncomfortable] I know this isn't healthy I know exactly what this is That's the problem I know And I stay anyway [Verse 1] You arrived like a frequency I couldn't tune out Static in my chest where the silence used to live I rearranged my whole calendar around your maybe Built my schedule on the architecture of your maybe That's the first sign — when you start negotiating With someone who hasn't offered you anything stable I cleared my week for a woman made of weather Sunny at noon and a hurricane by evening I know the pattern, I've been here before Different face, same fingerprints on the door Same way of leaving just enough to keep me Same calculated warmth that makes the cold feel easy I write it down so I can see it clearly The words don't help — I call you anyway, nearly Every night at the hour when logic takes its leave And something older, something darker takes the lead [Pre-Hook] You're bad for me in ways I understand completely I stay because the poison's administered so sweetly I'm not naive — I built a map of every exit But every time I reach the door I find a reason to forget it [Hook] Fever dream, fever dream You're the sickness and the remedy Fever dream, fever dream I can't tell where you end and where I bleed Everything is louder when you're close Everything is empty when you go Fever dream — I know what you are Fever dream — I know And I still can't let go [Verse 2] You said "I'm not good for anyone right now" I heard "stay close enough to find out how" That's my translation error, my romantic dysfunction Reading love letters into every contradiction You leave your things at my place strategically A jacket, a book — territorial instinct dressed in subtlety I'm fluent in the language that you're speaking The one beneath the words, the one that's always leaking Truth through the cracks of what we claim we are You say "just friends" but friends don't leave those kinds of scars Friends don't call at 2 AM just to hear breathing Friends don't make each other this good at leaving I've dissected every text for hidden meaning Climbed inside your silence trying to find the feeling That tells me this is real and not a fever But fevers feel the most real right before they leave you [Pre-Hook] You're bad for me in ways I understand completely I stay because the poison's administered so sweetly I'm not naive — I built a map of every exit But every time I reach the door I find a reason to forget it [Hook] Fever dream, fever dream You're the sickness and the remedy Fever dream, fever dream I can't tell where you end and where I bleed Everything is louder when you're close Everything is empty when you go Fever dream — I know what you are Fever dream — I know And I still can't let go [Bridge — production glitches, vocals distort slightly] There's a clinical term for what we're doing Trauma bonding dressed in something beautiful There's a chapter in every self-help book about this I've read them all In your bed While you slept I know the exits I know the warning signs by name I could teach a course On exactly how this ends And still I set my alarm To be here when you wake up Again And again And again [Verse 3 — raw, faster, unraveling] I cancelled real things for hypothetical us Turned down rooms full of people for the ghost of your touch That's the fever talking — I recognize the voice It sounds exactly like desire dressed up as choice I've been here so long I forgot the temperature of normal Forgot what it felt like when my days were more sequential When I didn't check my phone like it was oxygen When absence wasn't something I was drowning in You asked me once if I was happy — I said mostly You laughed and said "that's honest" — I said "barely" We never talked about it past that moment But both of us knew that was the closest Either of us came to saying what this costs To saying what we're finding in each other's loss To saying maybe we're just mirrors facing mirrors Reflecting the same damage getting clearer [Hook — Final, vocals more strained, production more chaotic] Fever dream, fever dream You're the sickness and the remedy Fever dream, fever dream I can't tell where you end and where I bleed Everything is louder when you're close Everything is empty when you go Fever dream — I know what you are Fever dream — I know And I still can't let go [Outro — loop deteriorates, single piano note remains] I know what you are I know what you are I know I know I know what you are And I still... I still... I still can't...
