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  1. Fever Dream

From the recording The One Thing You Need (2020)

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The One Thing You Need closes with one of its strongest offerings. “Fever Dream,” featuring SoSoHuman’s Bobby A on drums and Spankee on bass, opens with an Alice in Chains guttural funk that surges into a Dead Kennedys throttle before finding its balance in an accelerated Fleetwood Mac “Tusk” jungle rhythm, with Basler giving full flight to his sonorous and fretful “humback wail” guitar, climaxing in a Cheap Trick epiphany, and Webster haranguing a hallucinatory, speaking-in-tongues paean to restless love (“You take, you give, I’m coming to where you live”). Once again he finds the sacred in the secular: “You want to go to heaven, girl, but you don’t want to die…you never felt so alive,” and “You’re saying an Apostle’s Creed, I’m ripping at the seams, I'm slipping in and out of fever dreams.” He offers, “I’ll crack another bottle of this drink that you call love, I’ll make another model of the heavens up above,” asking rock’s age-old question, “Can you go all night?”

Written by Billy Webster
Produced by Billy Webster
Lead Guitar by Carl Basler
Drums by Bobby A
Bass by Spankee
Drums and Bass engineered by Danny Lee
Recorded at The Jersey Dream
(c) Shampoo Girl Music, 2020

Lyrics

Just who you think you talkin’ to
Just who - do you think you are
Who you think you’re gonna walk into
When you walk into that bar
Don’t know my name
From whence or where I came
But that boogie that you’re rockin’ to
Make you look like a star

I know you got a lover who don’t know to treat you right
I know you got another who just want to fuss and fight
I heard you got a brother who is guilty and contrite
But you’re coming like a mother who just want to go all night
Can you go all night

You’re digging up a fossil who can’t tell you nothin’ new
You’re making a colossal mess but I’m not blaming you
You take, you give...I’m coming to where you live
You’re sayin’ an apostle’s creed
You’re slippin’ in and out of fever dream…

You’re sending me a message from the corner of your eye
You wanna go to heaven girl, but you don’t want to die
You duck, you dive
You never felt so alive
You’re seeing your entire life flash right before your eyes

I know you gotta put up with the mental cases who
Wanna try to turn the light off when it’s shining right on you
But they couldn’t walk a mile in your head or in your shoe
And they’re telling you to smile when they should be begging you
And I’m not begging you

I crack another bottle of this drink that you call love
I do another model of the heavens up above
I’ll sing your name, I’ll make it rhyme with flame
I’m rippin’ at the seams, I’m slippin’ in and out of fever dreams…

I crack another bottle of this drink that you call love
I make another model of the heavens up above
I’ll sing your name, I’ll make it rhyme with flame
I’m rippin’ at the seams, I’m slippin’ in and out of fever dreams…