The Illness and the Cure Songtext
von Oedipe Nautique

Silent whispers of wind are flowing through my ears
It′s as if ghosts can't break their invisible chains
And my blood is all cold, and my soul is all fears
The whole world is asleep but will it wake again

I want you to be here but I need you not to be
I can feel that when you′re near
Breathing next to me, you're the Illness and the Cure
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I feel like I'm a fire, fed on tremors of pain
Bringing warmth and light, while lurking in the void
Self-hatred can′t help this thing I can′t refrain
And anything too close shall be burnt and destroyed


I'm sugar and honey to people I don′t care
But poison and decay to the ones I love
Maybe I've served my time down there
As She touches me with a cold hand with no glove

Empty space beneath my feet and my soul would melt with concrete
As I look down this last high wall
I feel the urge to end it all
You′re the Illness and the Cure
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They say that you are free to build up your own life
That you can be happy, that you can smile and thrive
Well, I'd kill to believe, but the freedom I have
Is to be either dead or painfully alive
To be either dead or painfully alive