Lyrics: The Center of the World Album: Fevers & Mirrors Artist: Bright Eyes   At the center of the world there is a statue of a girl. She is standing near a well with a bucket bare and dry. I…

Lyrics: When the Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass Album: Fevers & Mirrors Artist: Bright Eyes   Tomorrow when I wake up I’m finding my brother and making him take me back down to the water. That lake where…

Lyrics: A Scale, a Mirror, and These Indifferent Clocks Album: Fevers & Mirrors Artist: Bright Eyes   Here is a scale. Weigh it out and you will find, easily, more than sufficient doubt that these colors you see were picked…

Lyrics: Arienette Album: Fevers & Mirrors Artist: Bright Eyes   The fragile keep secrets, gathered in pockets, and they will sell them for nothing a cheap watch or locket that kind of gold washes off. The sad at like lepers,…

Lyrics: A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And A Necklace Album: Fevers & Mirrors Artist: Bright Eyes   You turn on a spindle. You are so much looser now but you’re not explaining how you gained such new repose. I…

Lyrics: Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh Album: Fevers & Mirrors Artist: Bright Eyes   The phone slips from a loose grip. Words were missed then some apology like I didn’t want to tell you this it’s just some guys she…

Lyrics: The Movement of a Hand Album: Fevers & Mirrors Artist: Bright Eyes   You follow the footsteps echoes leading down a hall to a room. There is music playing tiny bells with moving parts. Here the shadows make things…

Lyrics: Something Vague Album: Fevers & Mirrors Artist: Bright Eyes   Now and then it seems worse than it is, but mostly the view is accurate. You see your breath in the air while you climb up the stairs to…

Lyrics: An Attempt to Tip the Scales Album: Fevers & Mirrors Artist: Bright Eyes   Did you expect it all to stop at the wave of your hand? Like the sun is just going to drop if it’s night you…