[Verse 1: Bruce Hornsby]
I'm traveling now to Salem
I'm a judge at a jury trial
Got to get there by morning sunrise
Got to save someone's innocent life

[Chorus: Bruce Hornsby]
Open up, open up hysteria
Fear at a, at a fever pitch
Fever streets walk don't walk
Crowded sky of ventilators
Antennas out, under the
Moving sky, moving sky

[Verse 2: Ezra Koenig]
Moving road, billboards flying by
Rental cars, tubes and tires and chains
Everything around me silently linked
Signs generating reality

[Chorus: Ezra Koenig & Bruce Hornsby]
Open up, open up hysteria
Fear at a, at a fever pitch
Fever streets walk don't walk
Crowded sky of ventilators
Antennas out, under the
Moving sky, moving sky
[Verse 3: Bruce Hornsby]
Now every surface lethal
Wipe it down and change your mood
A shapeless, creeping, growing thing
A Salem barrister's Waterloo

[Chorus: Ezra Koenig]
Open up, open up hysteria
Fear at a, at a fever pitch
Fever streets walk don't walk
Crowded sky of ventilators, antennas out
Under the moving sky, moving sky

[Chorus: Bruce Hornsby & Ezra Koenig]
Open up, open up hysteria
Fear at a, at a fever pitch
Fever streets walk don't walk
Crowded sky of ventilators
Antennas out, under the
Moving sky moving sky
As we sit on the sidelines
(Open up, open up hysteria)