The Disappearing Architect

from The Disappearing Architect by Empty City Squares

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V1
In your thankless city
you'd think one learns a lesson from mistakes.
But you are one of many fools.
A minnow drowning in a giant filthy lake.

V2
Think back to that moment
it dawned on you, you'd never be that great.
Is that when you decided,
you'd need to ride on lives like mine to change your fate?

CHORUS
I am the disappearing architect you say
and hope you finally get your raise.
And what I saw is how you misdirect and lie.
Were you upset they passed you by, when they gave out looks?
And brains?

V3
From one screen to another,
you jumped and tried to cut through all the noise
Inconsequential "breaking news".
Your worthless, uninspired ploy.

V4
And what did you accomplish
telling them I vanished when I'm here?
Was it an act of desperation?
And was it the irrelevance you really feared?

CHORUS
I am the disappearing architect to you
because you said it must be true.
And all that phony moral outrage that I hear,
is rather funny as they've come to call me
Albert Speer

BRIDGE
You were there, pretending to care
duplicitous in all that you wrote
we both know, this was not really about me
but a grandiose fantasy
you tried to shove right down people's throats

CHORUS
I am the disappearing architect for now
It fits your narrative somehow
As you wait to for it to take effect, I'm here.
And thanks for all the help in resurrecting
my career
my career
my career
my career
(I didn't disappear)
my career
(I didn't disappear)
my career
(I didn't disappear)
my career
(I didn't disappear)

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