Kings of a Forgotten Gold
80s Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal, 80s Hard Rock genre, but with a distinct "modern hard rock" edge, It has the clean, polished production, strong melodies, and focus on vocal harmonies typical of classic AOR, Modern/Heavy Edge: The guitar tone is chunkier and more contemporary than 80s AOR, and the rhythm section has a heavier, more aggressive drive. Male baritone - tenor voice, backing vocals
Kings of a Forgotten Gold
80s Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal, 80s Hard Rock genre, but with a distinct "modern hard rock" edge, It has the clean, polished production, strong melodies, and focus on vocal harmonies typical of classic AOR, Modern/Heavy Edge: The guitar tone is chunkier and more contemporary than 80s AOR, and the rhythm section has a heavier, more aggressive drive. Male baritone - tenor voice, backing vocals
Lyrics
Intro
Verse 1
Rusted trucks and a ’49 dream
Buried deep where the cold streams gleam
Old man Cooper with a map drawn in lies
Saw the last sunset in his eyes
They chipped at the mountain’s stubborn heart
Tore the wilderness apart
Left their names on a timber cross
Counting nothing but loss.
Pre-Chorus
But the hills remember every blow
Every ounce of fever below…
They settle scores slow.
Chorus
CYPRESS HILLS – KINGS OF A FORGOTTEN GOLD!
Where the brave and the broken stories are told!
CYPRESS HILLS – IN THE PINE AND STONE COLD!
A legacy bought and bitterly sold!
There’s a curse in the quartz, in the dirt, in the soul!
And it’s waiting to claim what the mountain takes toll!
Guitar Solo
Verse 2
We came up here with fire and gears
To conquer ancient, silent fears
Dug our hopes in a poisoned seam
Chasing a ghost of a gambler’s dream
The compressor’s roar, the dynamite blast
Living too hungry, dying too fast
Now the rain washes gullies in the scars we made
In the price that was paid.
Pre-Chorus
Yeah, the ground drinks the sweat and the blood
Rises up in the springtime flood…
It’s calling from the mud.
Chorus
CYPRESS HILLS – KINGS OF A FORGOTTEN GOLD!
Where the brave and the broken stories are told!
CYPRESS HILLS – IN THE PINE AND STONE COLD!
A legacy bought and bitterly sold!
There’s a curse in the quartz, in the dirt, in the soul!
And it’s waiting to claim what the mountain takes toll!
Bridge
The wind doesn’t whisper… it warns through the trees…
Of the price of a sickness no medicine eases…
It’s in the soil, the water, the air that you breathe…
A truth you can’t leave…
THE MOUNTAIN… DEMANDS… ITS DUE!
Final Chorus
CYPRESS HILLS! (KINGS OF THE FORGOTTEN!)
KINGS OF A FORGOTTEN GOLD!
Where the brave and the broken stories are told!
CYPRESS HILLS! (IN THE PINE AND THE STONE!)
IN THE PINE AND STONE COLD!
A legacy bought and bitterly sold!
There’s a CURSE IN THE QUARTZ! (A CURSE!)
IN THE DIRT, IN THE SOUL!
And it owns you… body… and soul!
Outro