© 2026 Irrelin. All rights reserved https://suno.com/@irrelin [Verse 1] My dress is on the floor, same as it was I set two cups out, don't remember why The chair at the window, right where it always was Margaret's got my ribbon in her hair [Verse 2] I had an errand, something on the top shelf I stood there long enough to lose the name She laughed the way I laugh, I heard it from the hall I don't know when she learned that, I can't recall [Pre-Chorus] I must have taught her that Sometime last fall [Chorus] I'm not prepared I had things left to do The morning isn't finished And neither am I [Post-Chorus] Neither am I (neither am I) [Instrumental Break] [Verse 3] Nobody looks up when I come through the door The dog won't settle, keeps his nose to the floor I heard my name from somewhere in the front room Margaret answered it She's standing at my mirror now That happens sometimes too [Bridge] Something is wrong with the light in here It won't find my face the way it should I reach for the mirror The mirror reaches back I must have left my shoes out in the hall [Instrumental Turnaround] [Final Chorus] I'm not prepared I had things left to do The morning isn't finished And neither am I [Post-Chorus] Neither am I (neither am I) [Outro] I'm not prepared I had things left to do The morning isn't finished I'll start again when Margaret's gone ARTIST NOTE Things Left to Do grew out of the Twa Sisters, one of the oldest ballads in the British folk tradition, in which a sister drowns her sibling out of envy, and asked what happens in the house the morning after. The narrator moves through her rooms, sets two cups out, looks for an errand she has already forgotten. She notices that Margaret has her ribbon, her laugh, her place at the mirror. She finds reasons for all of it. She doesn't know she is dead. She is still waiting for Margaret to leave so the morning can begin.
