Sickness

White walls come with the IV drip

Needles biting deep, iron in my lips

The clock ticks slow, but my skin burns fast

Every hour feels like it's built to last

The chair becomes my body, the tube in my veins

Liquid fire running through my brain

I count the tiles, I count the days

I count what sickness takes away

Chemo in my blood, poison in the stream

Killing what kills me, living in between

Chemo in my breath, heavy as stone

I walk through a fire, but I'm not alone

Taste of metal, stomach on wheat

My hands are trembling, I can't even speak

Hair falls slow, like the autumn rain

Pieces of me in doctors' drain

Every face looks away, but they know

What it costs to just make it go

So I'm breaking down, but I'm still here

Swallowing sickness, swallowing my fear

Chemo in my blood, poison in the stream

Killing what kills me, living in between

Chemo in my breath, heavy as stone

I walk through a fire, but I'm not alone

Chemo in my blood, poison in the stream

Killing what kills me, living in between

Chemo in my breath, heavy as stone

I walk through a fire, but I'm not alone

I dream of silence, I dream of sleep

But the medicine drags me down too deep

Every cure feels like another curse

Every heartbeat fights for better or worse

I see the faces of the ones I love

Reflected back in the ceiling above

I see the faces of the ones I love

Reflected back in the ceiling above

I see the faces of the ones I love

Reflected back in the ceiling above

Nausea spinning, the forebooms sway

Another sunrise, another day skinned

Grows thinner, soul grows tired

But the spark inside has never expired

I'm blind in my arms, feels colder now

Oh, I'm tied, I don't know how

Chemo's a war, I'm all torn apart

But the fire still burns inside my heart

Chemo in my blood, poison in the stream

Killing what kills me, living in between

Chemo in my breath, heavy as stone

I walk through fire, but I'm not alone

Yeah, chemo in my blood, tearing me down

But I rise again from the battleground

I miss home in the quiet room

Winter ends, but it won't be soon

I'll breathe again, I find release

Until then, this war won't cease

This war, this war, this war won't cease

This war, this war won't cease