A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And a Necklace Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[G](Alright)
"So long everything" he shouted
Then he ran next door to Margot's
house (Margot's)
"I'm moving" he said
"Where?" asked Margot
"Two weeks away"
"Two weeks away?" He said
"Mitchell, where is that?" Asked
Margot (Mitchell)
"It's everywhere,
I will [B]be [G]after I [B]wal[G]k for two weeks" said Mitchell
"I have lived in the
same place for a long time
It is time [B]for me [G]to go someplace,
east"
"Else"
"No, [B]" said Mar[G]got,
"You have only lived next door for fifty years"
"Sixty, " said Mitchell
"Fifty, sixty. What's the difference?" Said
Mar[B]got (what's the difference)
[Am]"I want you to stay next
door forever"
"I [D]can't, " said Mitchell"
"I do [G]not want to go wake up
[C]in the same old bed "
"And [F#]eat breakfast in the same old kitchen
[B]Every room in my house is the sam[E]e old
room, because I have lived there too long"

[Verse 2]
[Am]You turn [D]on a spindle
You're [G]so much looser now
But you're [C]not explaining how
[F#]You gained such [B]new repose
[E]

[Verse 3]
I touch the [Am]clasp of your [D]locket
With it[G]s picture held
Some [C]secret you wouldn't tell
[F#]But let it c[B]hoke your neck
[E]

[Verse 4]
So we ima[Am]gine a [D]darkness
[G]Where all shapes divide
Solids [C]changing into light
With [F#]a burst of he[B]at so bright
[E]

[Verse 5]
[Am]Well fine, don't [D]you do what
[Bm]I wa[G]nt you[C] to[Am]
Don't [D]degrade yourself
[G]the way I [C]do[Am]
Because you don't [D]depend
upon all the [G]shit that I [C]use
[Am]To m[C]ake my m[G]oods i[D]mprove

[Verse 6]
[G]"And you look at me and think,
same old face, same old tail
[B]Same old scales, same old walk,
[D]same [Bm]old talk" said Marg[D]ot
[C#]"No, " said Mitchell,
[B]"I like you[G]r face, tail
Scales, walk and [B]talk. I [D]like you"
[F#]"I like, [Bm]like,
[C#]like [B]you too, " said Mit[E]chell
He walked through the door
"I must pack" he said

[Verse 7]
[Am]Near a sea of pi[D]anos
[G]There were waves of chords
That [C]crashed against the shore
[F#]In one huge and [E]use[B] less ro[E]ar

[Verse 8]
And there were [Am]girls bringing [D]water
Like a [G]dream they came
To cool [C]the fever of my brain
[F#]And soothe my [E]burn[B]ing throat
[E]

[Verse 9]
And they [Am]made [D]me a necklace
Hanging [G]beads of sweat
On a [C]string of my regrets
[F#]And they placed it '[B]round
my neck
[E]

[Verse 10]
And they were singing
[Am]"Don't you d[D]o what you've
[G]wanted [C]to"[Am]
"Yeah, don't [D]destroy yourself
Like [G]those coward[C]s do"
[Am]"Maybe the sun keeps[D] coming up
Because it has [G]gotten used to [C]you
And [Am]your con[C]stant [D]nee[G]d for proof"