A 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», 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€

†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€