foot in the door

from Leitmotif by The Ant Farm Collective

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lyrics

every december she'd buy a new diary
then lock all her memories away
and never remember the knock-backs
the derisory and disingenuous praise

she'd make resolutions avoiding the clichés
that serve her male counterparts well
and wore her delusions that karma defrays
for the bruising refusals that tell

she is coming she is going without ever really knowing
what on earth it was that she was looking for
she kept coming kept going believing she wasn't showing
her confidence: just a trick nothing more
than a foot in the door

she recalls reading of the glass ceiling
between the get-what-you-wants and have-nots
an unbreachable meanness
upon which she is beating with the wings of a tiring moth
like a chimera of hieronymus bosch she becomes
graceless with inelegant ease
when gratuitous truths bluntly mock her because
she can look but can't expect to reach

she is coming she is going etc…

there is an optimistic glint that glows in her eye
that the system will fail one day
and imagines a time when we'll look back and cry
and remember the day
when misogyny died away

she is coming she is going 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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