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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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2. |
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
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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??
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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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5. |
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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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.
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