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Archival Permanence (by amadis)

from Fourth Strike Song Jam 2023 by Fourth Strike Records

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Combination of Week 2 - inspired by 'Surrealism on TV' and other works by Robert Heinecken - and Week 3 - in the style of The Mountain Goats

Archival Permanence

lyrics, vocals, mixing/production by amadis
lyrics, backing vocals by garf
cello by jun
guitar by moodyabyss

lyrics

Few, maybe very few,
will understand what it is
that we did here

Our screens
and their meanings
aren't exactly crystal clear

Some things will always end up
buried where secrets go:

In the back of a busted worn out truck
to a landfill deep in New Mexico

This is only one
of several
recordings

Take it as instruction
a lesson
a warning

Work all night
into the morning

Recreate the meaning
in the performing

Press play
Let yourself get carried away

Circulate the tapes
Whatever it takes
Don't let what we did here be erased
Keep it safe
Keep it


What you are seeing
Isn't exactly
what we made

What you are hearing
Isn't exactly
what we played

Even a body of work
Must eventually decay

It's in the act of perceiving
that we interpolate

They will tell you
It's better left forgotten -
They're wrong

Hundreds of names in the credits
Hundreds of hours gone

Two hundred sixteen thirty five millimeter slides on the wall

20+ band members
Twenty times as many songs

Pick one
Wait for the click and the hum

Circulate the tapes!
Circulate the zines
Even if no one remains
that remembers what they mean

Circulate the tapes
Whatever it takes
Don't let what we did here be erased
(Don't let us be erased)
Keep it safe
Keep it


Can you still see me?
How much of my meaning
has been retraced?
All these images replaced
by a single static screen

Buy the name, kill the process
Then write it all off, lest
we let it exist
Tell me how can all of this
be better left unseen?

There's always gonna be dark spots
in our history, so some one’s got
to save the things
they think that no one wants to see

Maybe sooner or later
all we made will have faded
all it's architects long gone

So take a copy and pass it on

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from Fourth Strike Song Jam 2023, released March 1, 2024

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