[Verse 1]
Wake up, cold sweat
Teeth grind, jaw set
Your name in my throat
Like a pill I regret
Every touch
Left scars in my head
You’re the fever in my blood
That wants me dead
[Pre-Chorus]
Hands shake, heart race
I keep scratching at my face
Toxic taste on my tongue
But I still crave, still chase
[Chorus]
This love is like a sickness
Poison in my veins
Crawling through my system
Eating through the chains
Rotting out my body
Right down to the core
Breathing for an answer
That never hits my lungs anymore
[Verse 2]
You said “forever”
Then you cut the cord
Left me on the bathroom floor
Praying to a cracked tile god
All my friends say
“Walk away, move on”
But your ghost in my chest
Beating like a war drum
[Pre-Chorus]
Eyes red, room spin
I keep crawling back again
You’re a needle in my neck
And I can’t feel where I end
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
Gasp, choke
Every word, every joke
Was another little dose
Now I’m slipping off the rope
[rap breakdown]
I’m addicted to the venom in your kiss (yeah)
Every memory a blade on my wrist (cut)
Said you’d hold me down, you did, in the abyss
Now I’m pounding on my ribs like a locked-up fist
Can’t breathe, can’t bleed, can’t run from this
You’re the rot in the root that I still don’t fix
If love is a cure, then why’s mine illness?
Why’s my heartbeat scream your name as a witness? (why?)
[crescendo]
I claw at my chest
Like there’s air inside
But the room stays still
And my lungs just die
[Chorus]
[Outro]
[whispered vocals]
Sickness
In my veins
Calling your name
As I fade, as I fade