Try and forget it yet it keeps you awake   Live to regret it when the fever breaks   Lighting up a cigarette even the slow hand shakes   But it's a cold sweat when the fever breaks      If there is no light, if there is no end in sight   Then this just might not be a tunnel   If it were up to me, I wouldn't make that mistake   But history repeats and then the fever breaks      I know what it's like to feel fear   There's been so much confusion   The point is never clear but make it without illusion   Call it an intrusion if you will, if that's what it takes   It's the sound of mind when the fever breaks      It's all parlor talk at the dead man's wake   Bring out the winding sheets when the fever breaks   A slow and painful death ends faster than the eye can see   Taking your last breath feels like eternity   Catching a cool breeze across a late summer lake   Feel the chill of autumn as the fever breaks