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last perfect crime

from Leitmotif by The Ant Farm Collective

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you seem prepared to commit
the last perfect crime
bring an end to happiness and to hurt
although you’ll leave
no witness to judge you behind
it’s still not the end of the world

beauty is there
whether or not you are to see
and is still guilelessly welcoming
tragedy though
is something that we seem to leave
cankerous stain with our fingerprints in

you’re dancing on melting floes
leaving footprints in the snow
as these dizzying days steal your balance away
and your senses explode with vertigo
keep hold, let go
of all your contradictory boasts
keep hold, let go
your descendants are already ghosts

and the nightingale heard
so with a whisper feather-light
turned away to sing a silent song
of how every owl knows
predators have to be wise
lest the hunt becomes murderously wrong

see you all could have risen
but instead became less
than your couplets and conundrums described
and choose whether to lay
mistakes to confessional rest
or epitaphs of vainglorious lies

you’re dancing on melting floes …etc

you’re dancing on melting floes …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-
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