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How the City Sleeps

from Ardouine by ampersandman

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I have a new MIDI controller keyboard, so to honor it, I wrote my first song on keyboard (that may be an exaggeration, since I can't actually play keys, but I fumbled around with it a bit and fixed the melodies in the piano roll as I always do). I also put in some opera singer samples which I had flying around for a while now and been meaning to use.
The lyrics come from last week when I was at my rehearsal space which is in the city center. Berlin is always abuzz, be it day or night you will find hoards of people around, everywhere. But that night the ambience was so different, the streets were empty despite it only being 11 o' clock, and there was an actual fox crossing my way. It felt weird, almost dystopian.
I didn't mean to make songs about the pandemic, but there it is.

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How the city sleeps
they said it never would
In misty twilight
How the city's quiet
its roaring voice on mute
Safe in silence

Never dreamt I would be there
On nightly streets
just the crows and the foxes
to roam with me

How the city sleeps
Enfeebled by disease
almost unrecognizable
The lifeblood through its veins
plastered up to heal
forced to a standstill

In my head I still see them
On nightly streets
All the young party people
Swaying to the beat

I'll meet you there
One time you'll see
Once we woke up from this sleep
I'll meet you there
Some day soon
When we are fresh and renewed ...

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from Ardouine, released February 1, 2023

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ampersandman Berlin, Germany

I put my pants on just like the rest of you -- one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make songs that no one cares about.

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