This Old Dark Machine Lyrics - Early In The Morning - James Vincent Mcmorrow

Spring it came upon us, 

Every insect filled the air 

Dropped their wings upon my brother, 

Cast their shadows on his hair 

If we follow where they're leading, 

We will surely come before 

Some unseen and wondrous magic 

Made of visions to explore 

Near the town where we were living 

Was an old abandoned farm 

Every year we'd plant an orchid 

In the shelter of it's arm 

To protect us from the madness 

Of the future still to come 

It will be like this forever 

I will keep you safe from harm 

Then they caught us in the summer 

Dressed in fathers finest clothes 

You the hat he wore to market 

I the jacket filled with holes 

I've been searchins all these hours 

For a hand as pale as bone 

That would keep the strongest sunlight 

And reflect the brightest stone 

Near the town where we were living 

Was a warm and fragrant smell 

Of the orchid we had planted 

Now a forest tall and well 

What a statue to our greatness 

What a story all will tell 

They'll remember us forever 

They'll remember where we fell 

This old dark machine, it shakes and it shudders 

Pulls to the left, then dies near the gutter 

But still in the road, the traffic is silent 

The people they stare, and then they turn violent 

If they should touch, the hem of your dress 

I would rise like a lion, strike out again 

The faithful they wait, the faithful they wait 

By the sign 

Near the town where we were living 

Came a loud and joyous sound 

As the earth and all her beauty 

Picked us up from off the ground 

Carried far across the mountain 

To a kingdom never bound 

We will live like this forever 

I will love you 

I will love you 

I will love you