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The Tragic, The Comic, The Mostly Ignored

from The Disappearing Architect by Empty City Squares

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V1
Floating out on a silver sea, she
 started to yawn and drift away,
and 
as if on cue, 
she would wake up need to be rescued.
Walking across a windswept beach, his 
profit and losses occupied,
that
 space in his brain
 that was always the home of his migraines

.

REFRAIN
I’m back in my chair, and I’m under my hat,

I think to myself, "I’m all finished with that".

And all of these scenes, have been played out before,
 

the tragic, the comic, the mostly ignored.



V2
I never was one to hesitate
 and maybe I’m done,
I can’t be sure,
 but soon, very soon

change will come like the phase of a new moon

I’m so resolute it’s comical, and 
I’m not being cute when I declare,
these 
opening lines
 of the story I’m writing, are all mine

.

REFRAIN
With my sunglasses on, as I work on my tan,

The speakers are spitting old Steely Dan
.

I look at the people, lined up on the shore,


the tragic, the comic, the mostly ignored


BRIDGE
And I'm so very bored…

no, It isn’t hard to see


that I make bad company



And furthermore
,


In my clever repartee


hides ingrained misanthropy.
And there isn’t much that I would answer for
,

No there isn’t much that I would answer for.



SOLO



REFRAIN

I’m back at a job, and I stare at a screen,

I’m telling myself it was all just a dream
And all of these thoughts, I have thought of before
 

the tragic, the comic, the mostly ignored


CODA
Floating out on a silver sea, she
 started to yawn and drift away,
and 
as if on cue, 
she would wake up need to be rescued.

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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. ... more

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