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The Asylum

from tocsins & the remedy by Tim O'Connor

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i’m going around the bend
taking everything i know
i’m going to make new friends
with holes in their souls

i’ll be hidden behind the trees
the institution’s bedlam
degraded and demeaned
for the visions that i tell them

for your protection and the silence of my screams
this country is giving me to the asylum
to the asylum

i’ll stand straight and proud
unrepentant i’ll defy
these bullies without doubt
bloody butchers of the mind

i celebrate my tocsins
and the remedy
to desecrate their doctrines
of broken amnesty

for your protection and the silence of my screams
this country is giving me to the asylum
to the asylum

those wicked words i uttered
ushered in denouncing fists
with righteous hurly burly
lending weight to pious writ

expunging songs i made
of defiant angry sound
hastening my mouldering
in unconsecrated ground

for your protection and the silence of my screams
this country is giving me to the asylum
to the asylum

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from tocsins & the remedy, released September 15, 2016
Written & © Tim O’Connor 2016

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-
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