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

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 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

Because you don't depend upon all the shit that I use

To make my moods improve

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

Ganging 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

Cause it has gotten used to you

And your constant need for proof"