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This Old Dark Machine

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James Vincent McMorrow – This old dark machine

Capo 3
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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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Oohoo Ohhoo Ohooo ohhooo

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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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Oohoo Ohhoo Ohooo ohhooo

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This old dark machine, it shakes and it shudders pulls to the left,
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Then dies near the gutter but still in the road, the traffic is silent
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the people they stare, and then they turn violent if they should touch,
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The hem of your dress. I would rise like a lion, strike out again
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the faithful they wait, the faithful they wait for the sign

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Near the town where we were living was 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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I will love Ohoohhooo

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Oohoo Ohhoo Ohooo ohhooo  3x

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