People Are Props

from Babies Shouldn't Smoke (2022 remaster) by CHEER-ACCIDENT

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turn up the anesthetic, the microdot beat
can't stand the heat, nor the rhythm of the real world
as close to catatonic one dares to become
one dares to be numb and oblivious to the real world

people are props, they don't do anything
they just sit there and look like that
(look like what?) don't look like much

people are props, they don't do anything
they just sit there and look like that
(look like what?) looks not like much

turn up the filter, the prescribed the feed
the want or a need to be apart from the real world
this close to a question, one dares to be dumb
never dares to become a part of the real world

continued antiseptic, there's no need to fear
there's no need to hear the sounds of the real world
don't mind the smell from the left of the screen
and your spouse's scream, it's only the real world

people are props, they don't do anything
they just sit there and look like that
(look like what?) don't look like much

people are props, they don't do anything
they just sit there and look like that
(look like what?) looks not like much

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from Babies Shouldn't Smoke (2022 remaster), released June 21, 1993

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Born during the first few seconds of 1981; many decades later: still here.

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