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thank you (but​.​.​.​)

from i am an invisible man by Tim O'Connor

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lyrics

well it sounds like you're still running
waving
trying to catch the train
your ticket's looking tattered
stained with the gravy that you made

well the bed you make you lie on
now you lie to another man
and to keep you he can't tell you
all those things that i can

thank you
for giving me the words to write this
song of dusty passion
choking on all those cold confessions
that you want
i thank you
for welcoming me home
to the sound of sharpening knives
disguised by smiles whose bitterness
still weighs them down
thank you but i won't be coming 'round
thank you but i won't be coming 'round

well i guess you'll still be preaching
without practicing too hard
the latest phsyco-babble
of some spiritual retard

while whispers in the shadows
raise stilletto symphonies
whose petty orchestrator
won't have courage to be me

thank you
for giving me the words to write this
song of dusty passion
choking on all those cold confessions
that you want
i thank you
for welcoming me home
to the sound of sharpening knives
disguised by smiles whose bitterness
still weighs them down
thank you but i won't be coming 'round
thank you but i won't be coming 'round

and i can't look at you without feeling
that one quarter of my life has been stolen and misused
and the memories we should share
are just ghosts lost and confused
and you have the effrontery to ask me
to come back cap and songs in hand to entertain
fairweather-friend that fawn and feign
amazement at the things you do and say
well i'm sorry
but i just do not feel that way
i just do not feel that way
i just do not feel that way
any more

thank you
for giving me the words to write this
song of dusty passion
choking on all those cold confessions
that you want
i thank you
for welcoming me home
to the sound of sharpening knives
disguised by smiles whose bitterness
still weighs them down
thank you but i won't be coming 'round
thank you but i won't be coming 'round again
thank you but i won't be coming 'round

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from i am an invisible man, released December 20, 2012
written and performed by Tim O'Connor,
with uillean pipes played by Dicky Deegan

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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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