A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And a Necklace chords by Bright Eyes

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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,
B 
G 
B 
G 
I will be after I walk for two weeks" said Mitchell
"I have lived in the
same place for a long time
B 
G 
It is time for me to go someplace,
east"
"Else"
B 
G 
"No, " said Margot,
"You have only lived next door for fifty years"
"Sixty, " said Mitchell
"Fifty, sixty. What's the difference?" Said
B 
Margot (what's the difference)
Am 
"I want you to stay next
door forever"
D 
"I can't, " said Mitchell"
G 
"I do not want to go wake up
C 
in the same old bed "
F# 
"And eat breakfast in the same old kitchen
B 
E 
Every room in my house is the same old
room, because I have lived there too long"

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

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Verse 3

I touch the clasp of your locket

With its picture held

Some secret you wouldn't tell

But let it choke your neck

Verse 4
Am 
D 
So we imagine a darkness
G 
Where all shapes divide
C 
Solids changing into light
F# 
B 
With a burst of heat so bright
E 

Verse 5
Am 
D 
Well fine, don't you do what
Bm 
G 
C 
Am 
I   want you to
D 
Don't degrade yourself
G 
C 
Am 
the way I do
D 
Because you don't depend
G 
C 
upon all the shit that I use
Am 
C 
G 
D 
To make my moods improve

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

Verse 7

Near a sea of pianos

There were waves of chords

That crashed against the shore

In one huge and useless roar

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

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

Verse 10
And they were singing
Am 
D 
"Don't you do what you've
G 
C 
Am 
wanted to"
D 
"Yeah, don't destroy yourself
G 
C 
Like those cowards  do"
Am 
D 
"Maybe the sun keeps coming up
G 
C 
Because it has gotten used to you
Am 
C 
D 
G 
And your constant need for proof"