Intro
N.C. 
"So long everything!" he shouted 
N.C. 
Then he ran next door to Margot's house 
N.C. 
"I'm moving," he said 
N.C. 
"Where?" asked Margot 
N.C. 
"Two weeks away," he said 
N.C. 
"Mitchell, where is that?" asked Margot 
N.C. 
"It's everywhere I will be after I walk for two weeks," said Mitchell, 
N.C. 
"I have lived in the same place for a long time, it is time for me to go someplace else" 
N.C. 
"No," said Margot, "You have only lived next door for fifteen years" 
N.C. 
"Sixteen," said Mitchell 
N.C. 
"Fifteen, sixteen. What's the difference?" said Margot, "I want you to stay next door forever" 
N.C. 
"I can't," said Mitchell, 
G                              C                        F# 
" I do not want to go wake up in the same old bed and eat breakfast in the same old kitchen. 
    B7                           E 
Every room in my house is the same old room, because I have lived there too long" 
 
Verse 1
      Am7        D 
You turn on a spindle 
                   G 
You are so much looser now 
         C 
But you're not explaining how 
F#7             B7      E 
You gained such new repose 
              Am           D7 
I touch the clasp of your locket 
         G 
With its picture held 
      C 
Some secret you wouldn't tell 
  F#  F#7    B7         E 
But let it choke your neck 
 
Verse 2
        Am      D 
So we imagine a darkness 
           G 
Where all shapes divide 
        C 
Solids changing into light 
 F#              B7        E 
With a burst of heat so bright 
      Am          D       G              C 
Well fine, don't you do what I want you to 
Am            D                 G            C 
Yeah, don't degrade yourself the way that I do 
Am                   D            G 
Because you don't depend upon all the shit 
       C       Am   C   G    D   G 
That I use to make my moods improve 
 
Interlude
                                                                       B7              B 
"And you look at me and think, same old face, same old tail, same old scales, same old walk, 
           Bm 
same old talk," said Margot 
 C#7                      B         G                                    B7 
"No," said Mitchell, "I like your face, tail, scales, walk and talk. I like you" 
                    D 
"I like, like, like you" 
    Bm     C#7                 B7      E 
"I like, like, like you too," said Mitchell 
N.C. 
He walked through the door 
N.C. 
"I must pack," he said 
 
Verse 3
        Am     D 
Near a sea of pianos 
            G 
There were waves of chords 
C 
That crashed against the shore 
       F#        B7      E 
In one huge and useless roar 
                 Am             D7 
And there were girls bringing water 
        G 
Like a dream they came 
             C 
To cool the fever of my brain 
     F#        E  B7    E 
And soothe my burning throat 
 
Verse 4
          Am          D 
And they made me a necklace 
          G 
Hanging beads of sweat 
       C 
On a string of my regrets 
      F#         B7       E 
And placed it around my neck 
                          Am       D        G            C 
And they were singing: "Don't you do what you've wanted to 
Am              D 
Yeah, don't destroy yourself 
              G     C 
Like those cowards do 
Am                       D 
And 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