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Emerald AD 2021

by Emerald

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1.
Kill the Unicorn 06:15
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Idol, icon, talisman? You need to fill a void Hitch up to the caravan Paging Dr Freud… Opalescent memories Delusion once rejoiced We will not be frenemies Can you hear my voice ? Cuz if I could kill the unicorn Stab it with its magic horn I would kill the unicorn away Shelter from impurity Marketing a ploy Sense of false security A fable to destroy Cuddly rainbows hug the brain Floating on your cloud Hear a cold brutality Some won’t say out loud But if I could kill the unicorn Make it wish that it had never been born Trust me, I would kill the unicorn today Solo Technicolor princesses Riding through your dreams Feeding hungry businesses Cashing in moonbeams Anti-social media Losing track of time Latched onto your fairytale Kalaidoscopic crime Not if I can kill the unicorn Poison it with tainted corn Time has come to kill the unicorn today And that’s just what it deserved For getting on my nerves Didn’t you see it coming? For I long to be released From the Fairytale Nightmare Beast Goddamn unicorns…. Solo Come along and kill the unicorn Rid the world of the satan spawn Everybody kill the unicorn with me
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Confiscated World 06:33
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Hail to one and all our heathen kings Pushing out disbelief on everything Pictures painted for prosperity Evil in the eyes I do believe Call em out for making up the rule Better be a bastard than a fool You may find your answer much too soon Might as well be a dancer on the moon When the dreams and nightmares are done And you’re left with nowhere to run You can trust the fight has only begun Greed and hate motivate us to devour Desecrate destruction of the power Mind and will forever shall be free As you kneel in hope in front of me With your dreams and nightmares unfurled And the stones of hatred are hurled Clutching to this confiscated world Solo Fall into a grave that’s marked “too soon” The thing that’s meant to save is killing you Faces in the sand, never shall we learn Confiscated world continues to burn
3.
Fool 05:55
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What do you follow? Where do you run? Truth can be hard to swallow There’s many things under the sun Why do you follow? Why do you run? Looking back - I was nowhere Seeking ahead and I’m there Always run late to the hands of my fate How the hell is this all even fair? Searching for a loophole The watch that never gets wound Try to hide in the shadows No matter, you’ll always be found Why do you follow? Why do you run? The reason you’re hollow Your Internal prison Conceding our station at the mercy of the hourglass Drawn out in a line - you found your place upon the sand Convincing ourselves we get the power to overrule Time and again, time takes us for a fool Cutting against the grain Walk into the wind What you can find to comfort your mind? The calendar beats you again Why do you follow? Why do you run? The truth is tomorrow It’s not even begun Trying to run yourself under the sun As the wheel spins you aside Make a clear path to nowhere fast Finally your eyes open wide Reel in the last of your last days as if they were thread upon a spool Time and again, time takes us for a fool solo Race against the hourglass Lighting the end of the fuse Distance yourself from the chains of your past Myriad outcomes to choose Memories turning blurry You try to remember that song Write it on down in a hurry And find that you got it all wrong Why do you follow? Why do you run? It's nearly tomorrow.. and what have you done?? What have you done??
4.
Haunted Self 07:04
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Split apart before our time Sent across the seas of change Curtains close, surrounding me Only my haunted self can see Books fill the shelf describing me Harrowing idiosyncrasy My haunted self from another time Takes what I always thought was mine My haunted self Can’t save it for the life of me My haunted self Tore a page out from our history Navigating through the ruin Never a clue for what I do My haunted self keeps watch on me A shadow creeping through the trees My memories taunting me Remind me of the things I used to be My haunted self Can’t save it for the life of me My haunted self Can’t exist beyond my misery When you think you’ve lost yourself And you’ve gone too far Will you cross the road that leaves a scar? And you think you’re home again but don’t know where you are Keep on searching for the star (and you are) Remember what it takes for you to feel alive Don’t forget the shining of your light Remember what it means for you to be alive Solo Perfect hindsight - I understand Midnight - home to the damned My haunted self Can’t save it for the life of me My haunted self Ride a carousel to destiny Remember when you fell apart You let down your guard You left the only bridge behind you charred And you fell in love, but much too hard Remember what it takes for you to feel alive Don’t forget the shining of your eyes Tell me what it means for you to be alive
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Supreme 06:42
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Mind over matter You spread a disease Ashes are scattered out to the breeze Voices are tattered No one hears the screams Actions are taken out to extremes One in a million A million to one Unformed opinion Put under the gun Caught in the middle the middle of one Broken and brittle A truth poorly spun Make me your god And I’ll heal you today Sell me your dreams And I will reign supreme I will reign supreme What do you seek Can you make out a list? Exclude a handshake But include a fist Called by a vision Division of doubt Mental collision Just can’t work it out Enter the number And move it upstream Give me the word And I will reign supreme I will reign supreme I will reign supreme I will reign supreme Lost and infected Who can we find to blame? What you expected Whisper a name Solo Ticking a time bomb You no longer hear All that you know will surely disappear Walk through the orchard Look into the well No self reflection No myth to dispel Caught in a landslide Alone with the fear Reach for a hand up Not one volunteer Make me your god And I’ll heal you today Sell me your dreams And I will reign supreme I will reign supremes I will reign supreme Rising resistance Who can we find to blame? Fight for existence Whisper a name

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released May 5, 2021

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Emerald Tucson, Arizona

Emerald is the long running metal project of Jeff Melin (gtr/vox) and Duane Hollis (bass). Founded in Tucson, AZ in 1984 & re-emerging in 2014 after a long hiatus to produce 4 full length albums.
Now breaking out from Covid times and joined by drummer Bob Davidson, "AD 2021" is another 5 song blast of Emerald-style old-school metal that connects past to present. ... more

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