James Vincent McMorrow - This Old Dark Machine

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Spring it came upon us, every insect filled the air    
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Dropped their wings upon my brother, cast their shadows on his hair    
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If we follow where they're leading, We will surely come before    
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some unseen and wondrous magic, made of visions to explore    
     
     
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Near the town where we were living, was an old abandoned farm    
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Every year we'd plant an orchid, in the shelter of it's arm    
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To protect us from the madness, of the future still to come    
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It will be like this forever, I will keep you safe from harm    
     
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Then they caught us in the summer, dressed in fathers finest clothes    
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You the hat he wore to market, I the jacket filled with holes    
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I've been searching all these hours, for a hand as pale as bone    
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That would keep the strongest sunlight, and reflect the brightest stone    
     
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Near the town where we were living, was a warm and fragrant smell    
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Of the orchid we had planted, now a forest tall and well    
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What a statue to our greatness, what a story all will tell    
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They'll remember us forever, they'll remember where we fell    
     
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This old dark machine, it shakes and it shudders    
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Pulls to the left, then dies near the gutter    
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But still in the road, the traffic is silent    
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The people they stare, and then they turn violent    
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If they should touch, the hem of your dress    
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I would rise like a lion, strike out again    
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The faithful they wait, the faithful they wait    
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By the sign    
     
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Near the town where we were living, came a loud and joyous sound    
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As the earth and all her beauty, picked us up from off the ground    
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Carried far across the mountain, to a kingdom never bound    
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We will live like this forever, I will love you, I will love you    
     
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