James Vincent McMorrow - This Old Dark Machine: chords

Cm                            Gm
Spring it came upon us, every insect filled the air
          F
Dropped their wings upon my brother, cast their
  Cm
shadows on his hair
Cm
If we follow where they're leading,
         Gm
We will surely come before
        F
some unseen and wondrous magic,
        Cm
made of visions to explore

Chorus:
          F
Near the town where we were living,
       Cm
was an old abandoned farm
       F
Every year we'd plant an orchid,
         Cm
in the shelter of it's arm
       F
To protect us from the madness,
        Cm
of the future still to come
        Gm
It will be like this forever,
        D#                 F
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

Chorus:
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

     Cm
This old dark machine, it shakes and it shudders
A#
Pulls to the left, then dies near the gutter
      F
But still in the road, the traffic is silent
      Cm
The people they stare, and then they turn violent
G#
If they should touch, the hem of your dress
   Cm
I would rise like a lion, strike out again
      D#
The faithful they wait, the faithful they wait
    A#
By the sign

Chorus:
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