Fever Beats

Sat down with a poker face, snake eyes and your pillowcase
The hands holding the triple ace are laying down the cards
She said it without sentiment yeah it’s tragic but it’s true my friend
You know it really makes no difference your little bleeding heart
I thought you would have got it all, the Bible’s painted on the bedroom wall
And all you had to do was call for one final reprise
Innocents would stop and stare, the libertines play truth or dare
You’ve been waiting out the Summer there and loving by degrees
Oh, take a little more time ‘cause fever beats all down the line
I said oh, take a little more time ‘cause fever beats all down…
And yeah these are our heroes now and fever beats on furrowed brows
And all the fate the past allowed is turning into gold
It’s a sonnet on The News At Ten, the Lord’s Prayer or a requiem
It’s Dylan, it is Bethlehem recited on a game show
Oh, take a little more time ‘cause fever beats all down the line
I said oh, take a little more time ‘cause fever beats all down the line
All down the line, all down the line
So hey now are you listening ‘cause the day is slowly closing in
You’re dust and you are heart and skin, you’re blood and you are vein
And through the night yeah, through it all in every word and every chord
You’re sure you’ve heard it all before, and you’ll hear it all again
Oh, take a little more time ‘cause fever beats all down the line
I said oh, take a little more time ‘cause fever beats all down …
Oh, take a little more time ‘cause fever beats all down the line
I said oh, take a little more time ‘cause fever beats all down the line
All down the line, all down the line, all down the line