Fever Kept Me Up All Night Songtext
von Beaver Nelson

A spitfire bolt of honesty
Willing captive to insanity
Asphalt dreams bent on the sea
Dancing backwards out on Market street
No-faced gentlemen with lacy dames
Macy′s windows and crazy names
Heard just barely over angel's strains
Making toasts to illegal games
Going blind
From second sight
Fever kept me up all night


Sleeping sideways only when I must
One eye′s open while the other's shut
Slip so silently into a rut
That crawling out can get you cut
Singing symphonies of broken chords
Watching wreckage of misspoken words
Though silent songs are sent away unheard
Nothing's to eat ′til the stew is stirred
Forgotten time has taken flight
Fever kept me up all night

Shooting craps with movie stars
Meeting more in late night bars
Sometimes looking hard and far
Means forgetting where you are
Listen to the teenage squeals
Chased by four-star navy seals
Piper′s off on some new spiel
About hometown boys, they're for real
It′s a plague
It's a blight
Fever kept me up all night


Conversations never making sense
Reality is just quarantined coincidence
Falling right where your last dollar′s spent
Serpentine stories subsequent
Fell down the stairs, thought she was dead
Uncle daddy reared his ugly head
It's a short trip from the bar to the bed
With long layovers looking for your head
No, I′ve not retired
The will to fight
Fever kept me up all night

As the pages from the book are torn
Don't bother trying to keep yourself warm
Please consider yourself forewarned
That you can't die ′til you′ve been born
Fog falls around the scene
Mindless jerks with the brain machine
Not a one knows what it means
There's no silence ′til someone screams
Blow out the candle
It's all too bright
Fever kept me up all night