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dark side of the looking glass

from Leitmotif by The Ant Farm Collective

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your life the way you tell it is like a shadow play
open to interpretive misreading though you say
you argue your position without knowing that you stand
in the belly of an hourglass reasons running through your hands

going clear and open-minded, you're only due what's yours
after all it's you who chooses which heaven's worth dying for
yet if believing is so easy why no salvation here today
no redeeming light of rapture just broken promises again

and if the trick is it it's transparent you'll just pluck out your own eyes
i wish you'd leave and take your foolishness into your precious light

in the darkness i am free to be those things we only dream of reaching
those things beyond believing that we just may be
the only thing that's real here and that out of there is a void
past the dark side of the looking glass there is nobody to judge us
nobody to save us or remember we have been
and wonder if we dreamed

your congregations growing smaller as vicious pieties distilled
offertory to st. calumniate the dwindling clinging to their guilt
your malformed mystery separates like milk left too long and curdled
your mediaeval rhetoric becomes business of the infernal

the beguiling innocence you wear is a wolf amongst the sheep
smile wide with benefaction as you lay them down to sleep
the hold you had is slipping so you now diversify
into politics and scheme for state and temples unified

to peddle your illusions as policies of truth
of divine constitution surely no god watches you

in the darkness i am free etc…

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from Leitmotif, released December 10, 2015
written 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.

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cowfisH, from 1992 onwards.

The Ant Farm Collective, from 2014-2017.

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

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