Over the Rhine - My Love Is A Fever lyrics

My love is a fever My love is a fable My love is jazz licks Improvised by toddlers Bold Ulysses by nursery rhyme And firelight My love is a metamorphosis Reason cold logic Intuitively speaking My love is syncopated Spoon-fed ignorant Well-read My love is singular My love is commonplace As a gravedigger's own birthplace My love is a medicine Feeds the sick heals the poor Turns up the volume on the blind My word it's a trip Like a migraine On a moving train It parachutes aeroplanes Watch it fly Eyes soar hands clap Ears ring it's a sand trap Hair raising amazing Grey city transformations As lips sink stomachs ache Monkeys shine fire flies Foxes trot hobs knob Porches swing brains storm Hearts attack and air supplies Heads light tails spin Steeples chase you along your chin Rock slides Out of the woods now A virgin in buckskin Moccasins tall thin She plays your mandolin So maudlin you begin to spin Out of the woods now