This Old Dark Machine-James Vincent McMorrow

[ti:This Old Dark Machine] [ar:James Vincent McMorrow] [al:Early In the Morning] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.82]Spring it came upon us [00:03.54]Every insect filled the air [00:07.29]Dropped their wings upon my brother [00:10.93]Cast their shadows on his hair [00:14.68]If we follow where they're leading [00:18.19]We will surely come before [00:21.79]Some unseen and wondrous magic [00:25.51]Made of visions to explore [00:29.42]Near the town where we were living [00:32.87]Was an old abandoned farm [00:36.62]Every year we'd plant an orchid [00:40.31]In the shelter of it's arm [00:43.93]To protect us from the madness [00:47.59]Of the future still to come [00:51.15]It will be like this forever [00:54.80]I will keep you safe from harm [00:59.68] [01:13.42]Then they caught us in the summer [01:17.00]Dressed in fathers finest clothes [01:20.39]You the hat he wore to market [01:23.97]I the jacket filled with holes [01:27.93]I've been searchins all these hours [01:31.50]For a hand as pale as bone [01:35.25]That would keep the strongest sunlight [01:38.82]And reflect the brightest stone [01:42.61]Near the town where we were living [01:46.18]Was a warm and fragrant smell [01:49.77]Of the orchid we had planted [01:53.43]Now a forest tall and well [01:57.06]What a statue to our greatness [02:00.80]What a story all will tell [02:04.42]They'll remember us forever [02:08.03]They'll remember where we fell [02:11.47] [02:27.09]This old dark machine it shakes and it shudders [02:30.89]Pulls to the left then dies near the gutter [02:34.30]But still in the road the traffic is silent [02:38.12]The people they stare and then they turn violent [02:41.84]If they should touch the hem of your dress [02:45.01]I would rise like a lion strike out again [02:48.89]The faithful they wait the faithful they wait [02:52.37]By the sign [02:55.43] [02:56.00]Near the town where we were living [02:59.50]Came a loud and joyous sound [03:03.05]As the earth and all her beauty [03:06.87]Picked us up from off the ground [03:10.57]Carried far across the mountain [03:14.08]To a kingdom never bound [03:17.61]We will live like this forever [03:21.40]I will love you [03:23.27]I will love you [03:25.11]I will love you