a question of when

from i am an invisible man by Tim O'Connor

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when you've run out of stories to tell
and your inventive embelishments
have come to their end
when your well has run dry of its empty untruths
there's nothing left but to choose

to be honest again
it's just a question of when

have you no more excuses to sell
has your patter grown flat as your confidence wained
did you really expect your illusion could last
that there'd be no demands

to be honest again
it's just a question of when

if your glamour of subtefuge fell
should you be caught in the act at the division bell
of admitting to owning the emporer's clothes
and reluctantly chose

to be honest again
it's just a question of when

you have bent all the rules that will bend
in those corridoors reaking of power and decay
will you come clean or blindly defend your mistakes
with a cruel reluctance

to be honest again
it's just a question of when

will the scars you leave ever pretend
to explain lapses of judgment in the gambits you planned
make an effort to break up your synonymous past
in fragmented confessions

to be honest again
it's just a question of when

you'll be honest again
it's just a question of when

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from i am an invisible man, released December 20, 2012
written and performed by Tim O'Connor

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Tim O'Connor Hull, UK

Tim O'Connor is an English Folk/Rock songwriter based in Yorkshire, UK, Performing & recording since the late Seventies, Tim has released a large catalogue of albums, 39 to date, available on his record label, Uilleand Music.

Band Projects:

cowfisH, from 1992 onwards.

The Ant Farm Collective, from 2014-2017.

Tim O’Connor & the Poachers 2018- ... more

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