Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And A Necklace
Bright Eyes

{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, two weeks away, he said M-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, else}

{No, said Margot, You have only lived next door for fifteen years
Sixteen, said Mitchell
Fifteen, six, 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 bedroom
And eat breakfast in the some old kitchen
Every room in my house is the some old room
'Cause I have been there too long}

You turn on a spindle, you're so much looser now
But you're not explaining, how you've 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
Yeah, don't degrade yourself the way that I do
'Cause you don't depend upon all the shit that I use
To make my moods and improve

{And you look at me and think, same old face, same old tail
Same old scale, same old walk, same old talk, said Margot
No, said Mitchell
I like your face, tail, scale, walk and talk, I like you
I like, I like, like, like you too said Mitchell
He walked to 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 sweatin'
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
You don't destroy yourself like those cowards do
Maybe the sun keeps coming up 'cause it's gotten used to you
And your constant need for proof


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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   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. 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