From the recording With You
The Kind Machine’s "With You" is a reflection on the uncertainty of facing a future that feels suddenly fragile and captures the struggle between the darkness of confronting mortality and the strength found in connections that give life meaning. The song explores the weight of realising that time is not guaranteed, dreams are left unfinished, moments still waiting to be lived and finding the courage to keep reaching for tomorrow.
Lyrics
Verse 1
In the glow of broken neon light
He is chasing shadows in his mind
Every plan he drew in sleepless nights
Starts to fade and fall behind
Verse 2
All the roads he thought would lead him there
Curl like smoke and vanish in the air
Every step feels further from the sky
Till he turns and finds you there
Verse 3
There are nights he feels the curtain fall
Whispers of an illness in the hall
He can almost hear the closing door
On the life he’s reaching for
Chorus
With you, he can touch the stars above
With you, he remembers how to love
Every dream he’s holding on to, every hope he’s running through
Only beats inside his chest because of you
Bridge
If the final breath should come too soon
All the songs he swore he’d sing for you
Would be frozen, unfinished lines
Scattered through an empty room
Chorus
With you, he can touch the stars above
With you, he remembers how to love
Every dream he’s holding on to, every hope he’s running through
Only beats inside his chest because of you
With you, he can break the fear and doubt
With you, all the lights stop burning out
If his story ended early, all the things he’d never do
Are the worlds he only finds when he’s with you