The Black Keys: Fever Meaning

Song Released: 2014

Fever Lyrics

[Verse:]
Fever, where'd you run to?
Fever, where'd you run to?
Acting right is so routine
Fever, let me live a dream

Fever, I'm a slave to
No one misbehaved too
Fever, they're misunderstood
Wouldn't leave you if I...

1. anonymous

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   Oct 15th 2014 !⃝

   It's not fiction. This really did happen to him. The song is about how he met this woman and she changed his perspective. This is the most ppersonal album the keys have put out. So could this be an actual account of what happened to him? Not only do i think that's what he's singing about. But it's a message in a bottle. He's trying to find her again. He's calling her out.
2. anonymous

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   Sep 17th 2014 !⃝

   So I don't know how it's not totally obvious that it's about heroin. Dans lyrics have always had a slight opiate edge to them (especially Brothers, I feel like that's when he was in it the heaviest.). "Fever got me guilty, just go ahead and kill me"
   "Used to be a blessing, now fevers got me stressing", acting right is so routine, fever let me live a dream." And like "fever I'm a slave to". Anyone who has lived through a heroin addiction gets it immediately. I just saw them live tonight and Dan was looking great so he's probably clean now. Good for him. Rock on, folks.
3. anonymous

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   Aug 29th 2014 !⃝

   I like to think of this where he has a mental illness, hence "Fever". "Fever let me live a dream" upon learning of it, he thinks of using it to get away with things. However, he soon realizes that he is "enslaved" to it---accidentally harming people who hadn't done anything to him during one of his outbursts. Of course, he still sticks to the idea that it's a part of his personality that he can't change. Plus, he can often make people pity him to the point where he gets what he wants, or he can use it as an excuse for when he does something wrong.
   He has many breakdowns and hates it more than anything. When his disease ends up forced into conversation, he usually asks them to explain it to the person as he is too embarrassed of it. Extreme guilt drives him near suicidal.
   "Fever, can you hear me?" At some point, it's hard to even converse normally. This has shaken himself up so bad, he now just wants to go back to normal life again, back when he wasn't burdened with this. He had used it as a blessing to get away with things the first month or so, but now he is overwhelmed with the stress from it. He knows that he is often to blame for much of what he does, and that the disease really does only a fraction of it, but he can't give up the game... His girlfriend even wants to leave him, and he knows he shouldn't, but...
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   Yeah that was pretty weird but I think it's good.
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   Jun 22nd 2014 !⃝

   Definitely anti evangelist... I like it
5. anonymous

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   Jun 9th 2014 !⃝

   I can relate to this song. When I think of Fever; especially when an artists writes a song about it. I believe Fever is Love. Love will Raise you up and Love will Crucify you, but never leave it.
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   Jun 6th 2014 !⃝

   Maybe all of that. Maybe a lot of things. Maybe it's about the times you know you've grown up and think about the fever you felt about things when you were young, and you miss it. Great song
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   Jun 5th 2014 !⃝

   Replace the word "Fever" with "God" in the lyrics and see how it comes together. It's a critique about religion. Their video for the song depicts it as well.
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   May 21st 2014 !⃝

   Sounds like it's about religion. Religion is the fever.
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   Apr 23rd 2014 !⃝

   I would say that that its about falling deeply in love with someone and they start out loving you the same but then they leave you for another.

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