///*****/// [Intro] (Heavy detuned riff, siren synth, strobe lights hammering) Hold on to something! [Verse 1] Neon crawling on the ceiling of a room I've never seen Twenty cities in a fortnight and they blur into a dream There's a face in every doorway and they all know who I am And I couldn't tell you honestly the country that I'm in The doctor gave me something for the shaking in my hands The manager gave me something else to help me understand And the machine keeps on turning and the wheels don't ever stop And the only place I'm real is up here standing on the top [Pre-Chorus] Feed the fire, work the wire Somebody wake me when it's over [Chorus] Fever dream machine Grinding through the night Fever dream machine Chewing up the light I'm a passenger inside my own runaway parade Fever dream machine, don't take me away! [Verse 2] Hotel corridor at five with a keycard and no name A television screaming in a language of its own I called my brother Tuesday and I couldn't find the words Just told him that I love him and I hung up like a coward There's a version of this story where it ends up in a grave There's a hundred names I've buried who went out the very same But then the house lights hit me and the whole thing burns away And I remember why I'm here and I'm alive again today [Pre-Chorus] Feed the fire, work the wire Somebody wake me when it's over [Chorus] Fever dream machine Grinding through the night Fever dream machine Chewing up the light I'm a passenger inside my own runaway parade Fever dream machine, don't take me away! [Guitar Solo] (Chaotic, dissonant, whammy screams and machine-like sequenced picking) [Breakdown] Strobe it. Strobe it all. Faster. Faster. Now cut everything. (Total silence, three seconds, then the riff detonates) [Bridge] If you're out there in the dark and you're running the same race Working doubles, chasing money, hating what you see in the glass Then you already know exactly what this song is really about And you're gonna scream this chorus and we'll get each other out [Final Chorus] Fever dream machine Grinding through the night Fever dream machine Chewing up the light I'm a passenger inside my own runaway parade Fever dream machine, don't take me away! Fever dream machine tonight! [Verse 3] There's a room in every hotel where the mirror tells the truth And I've stood in front of most of them at four o'clock at least Looking at a face I recognise from photographs and press And wondering which one of us is going to be here at the end But then there's always this, there's always somewhere to go on There's always one more building full of people who don't know That the man who's coming out to them tonight is running on Nothing but the noise they make and nothing more than that [Chorus Reprise] Fever dream machine Grinding through the night I'm a passenger inside my own runaway parade [Outro] (Siren synth falling, riff grinding, crashing to a dead stop) Still here. Somehow, still here.
