Biography:
Emperor X is a pop/noise/folk music project headed by American musician C. R. Matheny. The project often performs and records with little more than Matheny on an acoustic guitar and a dynamic microphone, but sometimes also employs large groups of musicians on percussion instruments, various electronic noisemakers, brass/woodwind/string ensembles, and traditional rock instruments.
The lyrics of Emperor X songs have been described as simultaneously "hallucinatory" and "precise
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Defiance (For Elise Sunderhuse) - Emperor X
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Tuning: Standard
C D G D
C D G D
General Doom got another leg caught
C D G D
He was arming kids, begging for artillery shells to kick around
C D G D
And building white crosses to commemorate the martyrs' brigade
C D
In the Red Crescent-bearing ambulances
G D
It's better than working in the mines all day
C D G D 2x
C D
One vehicle down
G D
We were praising the Lord when we heard the report
C D
Of the trucks and the cranes and the double-yellow lines
G D
And the fear and the love and the violence dissolved
C D
We're told that we've learned a great deal
G D
And we're told that your loss is collateral cost
C D
And stochastically inevitable
G D
And the price that we pay for breathing, but we
C D G D
Deeeefffyy 5x
C D G D 2x
C D G D
Punk Haitians kicking under concrete
C D G D
They charge their phones and send another text feed to the flotilla
C D
And it's out, but time's not a disease
G D
It's an ordered state. It's a firm substrate
C D
It's a shocking priceless wasteland
G D
And it's where we'll raise our kids and get lost and
C D G D
Deeeefffyy 4x
C D G D C D G D
Letters, pixels, texts
C D G D
Crystallize and mutate
C D G D
Patterns amplifying
C D G D
forever 8x
C
Defiance (For Elise Sunderhuse) - Emperor X
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Tuning: Standard
C D G D
C D G D
General Doom got another leg caught
C D G D
He was arming kids, begging for artillery shells to kick around
C D G D
And building white crosses to commemorate the martyrs' brigade
C D
In the Red Crescent-bearing ambulances
G D
It's better than working in the mines all day
C D G D 2x
C D
One vehicle down
G D
We were praising the Lord when we heard the report
C D
Of the trucks and the cranes and the double-yellow lines
G D
And the fear and the love and the violence dissolved
C D
We're told that we've learned a great deal
G D
And we're told that your loss is collateral cost
C D
And stochastically inevitable
G D
And the price that we pay for breathing, but we
C D G D
Deeeefffyy 5x
C D G D 2x
C D G D
Punk Haitians kicking under concrete
C D G D
They charge their phones and send another text feed to the flotilla
C D
And it's out, but time's not a disease
G D
It's an ordered state. It's a firm substrate
C D
It's a shocking priceless wasteland
G D
And it's where we'll raise our kids and get lost and
C D G D
Deeeefffyy 4x
C D G D C D G D
Letters, pixels, texts
C D G D
Crystallize and mutate
C D G D
Patterns amplifying
C D G D
forever 8x
C
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