Exedra
In architecture, an exedra is a semicircular recess or plinth, often crowned by a semi-dome, which is sometimes set into a building's facade. The original Greek sense (ἐξέδρα, a seat out of doors) was applied to a room that opened onto a stoa, ringed with curved high-backed stone benches, a suitable place for a philosophical conversation. An exedra may also be expressed by a curved break in a colonnade, perhaps with a semicircular seat.
The exedra would typically have an apsidal podium that supported the stone running bench. The free-standing (open air) exedra, often originally supporting bronze portrait statues is a familiar type of Hellenistic structure, characteristically sited along sacred ways or in open places in sanctuaries, such as at Delos or Epidaurus; sometimes Hellenistic exedrae were built in relation to a city's agora, as at Priene. Monument architects have also used this free-standing style in modern times.
Rome
The exedra achieved particular popularity in Roman architecture during the Roman Empire. In the 1st century AD, Nero's architects incorporated exedrae throughout the planning of his Domus Aurea, enriching the volumes of the party rooms, a part of what made Nero's palace so breathtakingly pretentious to traditional Romans, for no one had ever seen domes and exedrae in a dwelling before. An exedra was normally a public feature: when rhetoricians and philosophers disputed in a Roman gymnasium it was in an exedra opening into the peristyle that they gathered. A basilica featured a large exedra at the far end from its entrance, where the magistrates sat, usually raised up several steps, in hearing cases. This was called a tribuna in Latin, and tribune is used for an area of raised floor backing onto a wall, often in an exedra.
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- Kingdom of the Blind released: 1995
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You
by: AxodryYou x
The day you left my dreams.
I lost my way and cry.
The part you left behaind.
Can never be denaid. x 2
I want to say, i try.
I want to say. x3
I try.
You can see you`re face. x2
I`ll see you in my dreams.
You can see you`re face. x2
But can you see my heart.
The heart that beats for you.
I`ll see you in my dreams. x2
You`re smile is in my heart.
Each morning every day.
And trugh the tears that fall.
I`ll find another way. x2
What else is the`re to say.
What else is the`re. x3
To say.
You can see you`re face. x2
I`ll see you in my dreams.
You can see you`re face. x2
But can you see my heart.
The heart that beats for you.
I`ll see you in my dreams x2
I walk, i see and now im free.
I see them.
They see me.
I look for her, but shes not there.
I look again.
Shes on the well among the crowd.
But now i know shes like the rest.
So close, so far, betwen it best there all alike.
But not the same
I look again, but now shes gone
I look at theme, they look at me, but who see`s who?
Not them not me.
jua jua xD
The days go on and on.
I walk, i see, i cry and when i fanaly wake.
I`ll know it was a lie. x2
And all that`s left asaide.
And all that`s left. x3
Asaide.
You can see you`re face. x2
I`ll see you in my dreams.
You can see you`re face. x2
You can see you`re face. x2
I`ll see you in my dreams.
You can see you`re face. x2
But can you see my heart.
The heart that beast for you.
I`ll see you in my dreams. x2
You can see you`re face. x2
I`ll see you in my dreams.