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Forgotten Cities

by Also In Blue

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SONG BIO:
The idea for this song came from a newspaper article. As Syria enters its tenth year of civil war, people fleeing the conflict are taking shelter in the ruins of of ancient structures in the north of the country - churches, temples, bathhouses, Roman and Byzantine, all centuries old. Gesturing at the shelter and cooking furnace he built for his family out of the rubble, Abu Ramadan tells the New York Times, “We built these from the ruins. We, too, have become ruins.” As per the challenge, the lyric contains exactly 25 words.

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LYRICS:
We, too, are ruins
We, too, are bones
Forgotten Cities
And weathered stones.

We, too, are fading
We, too, are ghosts
Forgotten cities
And weathered stones

Empty sky
And old foundations
All forsaken
All alone

Fading light
Voices silent
We scatter like the stones

We are forgotten
We are forgotten
We are alone

We are forsaken
We are forsaken
We are the stones

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released April 25, 2021

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Also In Blue Peekskill, New York

Also in Blue is the nom de guerre of an overeducated, under-stimulated songwriter without a serious direction, who writes at the expense of doing the dishes or getting reasonable amounts of sleep. His brand new YouTube channel (link below!) contains the greatest, most important work he’s ever done. He always says this about whatever his latest project is, in the hopes that it turns out to be true. ... more

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