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VERSE 1
Man, what was he looking at?
At first I thought, he might be made, of stone
The light had gone out in the sky,
and when he tried to speak, I heard him groan

CHORUS
And we were standing out in the street
We saw the ashes fall to our feet
And from a distance, we felt the heat
The air was burning, and tasted bittersweet


VERSE 2
It’s always hard to sleep at night, 
With phony rebels in some foreign land
And even though I try to hide,
The bastards helped me earn my pension plan

CHORUS
And I was running out in a street
Dodging the Bullets, on hot concrete
And I was nothing, a piece of meat
Another number on some bureaucratic balance sheet

BRIDGE
When I was going down, 
right down to Chinatown
Like all those other clown
Who didn’t give a damn

It’s now so plain to see

not friends or enemies
to them we’re all debris

Just sacrificial lambs

VERSE
No, it wasn’t country, or beliefs,


I finally learned who I was fighting for


Names that always draw a blank
dressed so well, and rotten to the core

CHORUS
And they are hiding, up in their suites
They watch the chaos, from front row seats
Risking a victory, hedging defeat
The taste of conflict, is often bittersweet


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

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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.
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