Flies In The Amber

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

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i know you look at me and say i ain't changed
but it's all really relative, isn't it?

this little gathering is a symptom of your success
but to me it looks like failure regardless of the circumstance

you bagged your trophies
and you nailed them to the wall

still you place so innocent, reticent

i look around me and you know what i see?
you're all just flies in the amber
waiting for the specialist to catalog
and chloroform the ambience

i know you take me out to show to your friends
isn't it exotic, all the places we've been?
but the viewing's so much better from where I am sitting
although a bit monotonous, cliches disguised as nothing less

the air is stagnant with the odor of the past
wouldn't it be wonderful if we had...

i wonder if you can perceive my disgust
at the flies in the amber

they're just waiting to be cataloged
analyzed and shut away
fossilized reconnaissance

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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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