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Sweat ‘n Shiver (lyrics)

My shadow followed me into a motel. I was feeling soundless and delirious. I wanted to be alone so I locked myself in a room for a week. I brought with me little food and the gifts of a tambourine man. I can’t remember anything except for burning like a coin in someone’s hand. I was woken by people banging at my door. I must have been alone for days - not alone but longing for shade and driven by thirst.

Juju

Sweat ‘n Shiver

Sweat ‘n shiver
Sweat ‘n shiver

Don’t you know that I never really loved?
‘Cos the sun don’t rise in the east
I’m looking through the eyes of a vanishing mask
My eyes are glazed I’m pretending to sleep
My eyes are glazed I’m pretending to sleep
My eyes are glazed I’m pretending to sleep

Whisper me cold blazing light
Whisper my cold blazing light
It’s early morning keep the curtain closed
I been out all night and I lost my name

Sweat ‘n shiver…

Hands and knees, crawling on the floor
Cigarette burning on a cockroach wall
Tear and suck, said my skin crawls
Chewing on a mattress, screaming up the walls.

Don’t you know that I never really loved?
‘Cos the sun don’t rise in the east
I’m looking through the eyes of a vanishing mask
My eyes are glazed I’m pretending to sleep
My eyes are glazed I’m pretending to sleep
My eyes are glazed I’m pretending to sleep

Whisper me cold blazing light
Whisper my cold blazing light
Like you I could live on a grain of sugar

Sweat ‘n shiver…

Scratch me, won’t you scratch my back?
I said, I’m tired, I’m tortured, I’m drowning
I’m looking through the eyes of a vanishing mask
I can’t sleep I can’t hold my thoughts

The Cadillac man keeps standing in the hall
Keeps banging his fist on my motel wall
Won’t you scratch me? won’t you scratch my back?
I said I’m tired, I’m tortured, I’m drowning

I can’t sleep I can’t hold my thoughts…

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