Tachycardia Lyrics - Howard Lawrence

Feel the haze closing in 

A megawatt invasion 

The buzz chills your fingers 

Try to squeeze it off but it lingers 

Doctors call for a round of tests 

Probe my brain and scan my chest 

When all I need is a potion 

To set the wheels back in motion 

This stranglehold is gonna choke me 

My last attack nearly broke free 

Sometimes I feel a slow burn inside 

Like a four-alarm fire tracking up and down my spine 

Weak defenses wringing my senses dry 

Book myself a front row seat 

For the summer concert season 

But then a sense of doom takes hold 

The back of my neck turns ice cold 

It never stays away long enough 

For me to know which end is up 

Gimme a decent warning 

I'll be crashin till three in the morning 

My girl's convinced I'm lazy 

This damn routine's makin me crazy 

Here it comes and comes again... 

Can't catch my breath 

Fight or flight hangs in the balance 

This fear of imminent death 

You can blame yourself forever 

And blow your shell-shocked brains out 

But they won't forgive and won't forget 

How you caved and took the bailout 

Even now when the worst is over 

The pitter patter fills my chest 

Not a heart condition but a signpost 

The symptoms lie like a talk show host 

Test results don't get disclosed 

To ease the pressure before it blows 

Just a message on my smartphone 

Emergency numbers-still unknown 

My self-esteem floats away in the water 

As reason and rhyme get slaughtered 

Sometimes I feel a slow burn inside 

Like a four-alarm fire tracking up and down my spine 

Pointless dread get outta my head 

Goodbye!