Fever Dream

I wrap my eyes around you You look at me like I’m in distress I didn’t recognise you You moved so different in the natural light And I psychoanalyse myself in the dead of night Like a fever dream Seeping through the cracks in my quicksand mind Life’s a fever dream Always out of sight but not out of mind I didn’t hear you knocking Or feel the tug on my heartstrings An optical illusion Or just another vision trick And I’m breathing and I’m breathing harder than before And it feels as though I’m suffocating in my own thoughts Like a fever dream Seeping through the cracks in my quicksand mind Life’s a fever dream Some memories I replay and some I rewind Like a fever dream Always out of sight but not out of mind Life’s a fever dream Seeping through the cracks in my quicksand mind Seeping through my quicksand mind Always out of sight but not out of mind Some memories I replay and some I rewind You were the one that I could not find