Letter To A Friend

from The Disappearing Architect by Empty City Squares

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V1 
 I remember you, from way back when 
 I remember you, from when before we were men  .
 We walked along the beach ,
 spoke of things just out of reach  .
We never practiced what they preached  .
But that was then  .

V2 
And how the time has passed, before our eyes .
Oh how the time has passed, like some forgotten battle cry.
When all the colors seemed,
 to shimmer in some vibrant dream .
We always had some scheme .
And now its passed us by  .

BRIDGE 
 Smell of the sea air,
the salt in our hair, 
we didn’t have a care,
the light was everywhere.

The hours and the days,
lost in a summer haze 
how fast it slipped away,
our summer holiday.

V3 
And suns begin to set, I’ll see the afterglow. 
And suns begin to set, And we say, “everything flows”. 
There’s less ahead, and more behind,
and some of it, time out of mind.
It’s getting harder to define .
There’s no denying that we’ve grown.

 I remember you, from way back when.

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from The Disappearing Architect, released June 21, 2021
Written, arranged, performed, engineered, produced: John "Yanni" Fotiadis
Lead Guitar: Marc Shearer

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Empty City Squares New Jersey

John Fotiadis (AKA "Yanni" to his friends), is an Architect by day and a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist the rest of the time. Over the last 15+ years he's written and recorded music for film, Theater, TV, and Podcasts.

Yanni loves old rock and roll and blues and a lot of music from the UK. Empty City Squares is his sometimes real / sometimes virtual band. ... more

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