So long everything, he shouted
Then he ran next door to Margot's house
I'm moving, He said, Where?, asked Margot
Two weeks away, he said
Mitchell, where is that?, asked Margot
It's everywhere I will be after I walk for two weeks, said Mitchell
I have lived in the same place for a long time
It is time for me to go some place else
No, said Margot, You have only lived next door for fifteen years
Sixteen, said Mitchell
Fifteen, sixteen, what's the difference?, said Margot
I want you to stay next door forever
I can't, said Mitchell, ‽I do not want to go wake up in the same old bed
And eat breakfast in the same old kitchen every room in my house
Is the same old room because I have lived there too longâ€
You turn on a spindle, you're so much looser now
But you're not explaining how you gained such new repose
I touch the clasp of your locket, with its picture held
Some secret you wouldn't tell but let it choke your neck
So we imagine a darkness where all shapes divide
Solids changing into light, with a burst of heat so bright
Well fine, don't you do what I want you to
Don't degrade yourself the way that I do
'Cause you don't depend on all the shit
That I use to make my moods improve
And you look at me and think
Same old face, same old tail, same old scale
Same old walk, same old talk, same old Margot
No, said Mitchell, I like your face, tail, scale, walk, and talkâ€
â€I like youâ€, I like you too, said Mitchell
He walked through the door, I must pack, he said
Near a sea of pianos, there were waves of chords
That crashed against the shore in one huge and useless roar
And there were girls bringing water, like a dream they came to cool
The fever of my brain and soothe my burning throat
And they made me a necklace, hanging beads of sweat
On a string of my regrets, and placed it round my neck
And they were singing, ‽Don't you do what you've wanted to
Yeah, don't destroy yourself like those cowards do
And maybe the sun keeps coming up because it has
Gotten used to you and your constant need for proofâ€
A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And A Necklace
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I Woke Up With This Song In My Head This Morning I Won't Ever Be Happy Again I Wont Ever Be Happy Again I'll Be You Friend I'm Sorry for being Such a Crappy Friend I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (Road To Joy) I've Been Eating (For You) If The Brakeman Turns My Way If Winter Ends In The Real World It's Cool, We Can Still Be Friends Its Cool, We Can Still Be Friends Jejune Stars Jetsabel Removes The Undesirables Jetsabel Removes The Undesireables Joy Division Joy Division (Simon Joyner cover) June on the West Coast Karat Diamond Kathy With a K's Song Kathy With A Ks Song Lachrymose Obsequious Vehement Elated Ladder Song Land Locked Blues Landlocked Blues Landlocked Blues - (with Emmylou Harris) Laura Laurent Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love And Be Loved) Lets Not Shit Ourselves Light Pollution Lila Lime Tree Little Drummer Boy Loose Leaves Lover I Don't Have To Love Lua Lua [DVD] Lullaby and Exile (M. Ward cover) Make A Plan To Love Me Make War Make War (Short) Make War (Short) Make War Short Man Named Truth Messenger Bird's Song Method Acting Middleman Mirrors And Fevers Moab Motion Sickness Movement of a Hand Mushaboom Mushaboom (Feist cover) N'en Parlons Plus Napoleon's Hat Neely O'Hara No Lies Just Love No Lies, Just Love No One Would Riot For Less No Prayer North Of The City Nothing Gets Crossed Out Nothing Has Changed Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem Oh You Are The Roots That That Sleep Beneath My Fe... Oh, You Are The Roots That Sleep Beneath My Feet A... Old Soul Song Old Soul Song (For The New World Order) On My Way to Work One Foot In Front Of The Other One for You, One for Me One Straw (Please) Out On The Weekend Padraic My Prince Papa Was A Rodeo Papa Was a Rodeo (The Magnetic Fields cover) Patient Hope In New Show Patient Hope in New Snow Pioneer's Park Poison Oak Puddle Stomper Puella Quam Amo Est Pulchra Pull My Hair Racing Towards The New Reinvent The Wheel Road To Joy Roosevelt Room Saturday As Usual Scale, a Mirror, and These Indifferent Clocks Seashell Tale Seashell Tale (M. Ward cover) Shell Games Ship In a Bottle Silent Night Silver Bells Singing a Song in the Morning Singularity Smoke Without Fire Solid Jackson Something Vague Song to Pass the Time Soon You Will Be Leaving Your Man Soon You'll Be Leaving Your Man Soul Singer In A Session Band Southern State Spent On Rainy Days Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And A Necklace Spring Cleaning Stray Dog Freedom Sunrise, Sunset Supriya Susan Miller Rag Take it Easy (Love Nothing) Tereza And Thomas Tereza And Tomas The 'Feel Good' Revolution The Awful Sweetness Of Escaping Sweat The Awful Sweetness Of Escaping Sweet The Big Picture The Biggest Lie The Biggest Lie (Elliott Smith cover) The Calendar Hung Its Self The Calendar Hung Itself The Calendar Hung Itself... The Calender Hung Itself The Callendar Hung Itself The Center of the World The City Has Sex The Difference In The Shades The First Noel The Invisible Gardener The Joy In Discovery The Joy In Forgetting / The Joy In Acceptance The Joy in Forgetting \/ The Joy in Acceptance The Movement of a Hand The Night Before Christmas The Trees Get Wheeled Away The Vanishing Act Theme from Pinata Theme to Pinata Time Code Touch Tourist Trap Train Under Water Trees Get Wheeled Away Trees Get Wheeled Away [#] Triple Spiral True Blue Type Of Nigga U Need Untitled (Lovers Turn into Monsters) Walls (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers cover) Waste Of Paint We Are Free Men We Are Nowhere And It's Now We Are Nowhere And It's Now - (with Emmylou Harris... We Are Nowhere, And It's Now Weather Reports Well Whiskey When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass When The President Talks To God White Christmas You Will. You? Will. You? Will You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will You Will. You? Will. You? 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