“No Unicorns” by theIcon – A Song Feature

 

 

    Concept albums are alive and well in Italy. Yesterday’s post featured the recently released album that traces the life of a person. The album is from The Ghibertins, a band based in Milano, Italy. Just prior to that album release, the collective theIcon unveiled a single from a concept album that will drop on January 27. The song, “No Unicorns,” is the second from the album “Beyond the Universe.”
 
     Rome-based theIcon explain that "Beyond the Universe" is “where the main character is trapped in an alternate universe (ours) struggling to find her way back to her world. She is lost in a crowded Times Square and struggles to stay sane because of our 'new world standards.' It's about consumerism, fake deities and well, unicorns.” The concept album is divided into two acts and tells the story of Emily and Abe, a couple from Montauk, New York, who must “deal with an illogical twist of fate that brings Emily into another universe (ours).”
 
     “No Unicorns” features piano and power vocals. The mixing is interesting in its selection of a greater emphasis on piano over vocals. As the single progresses, it is increasingly more powerful, lush, and orchestral. The credits identify Daria Simonetti (lead vocals), Margherita Palladino (lead vocals), Tiziano Bernardini (lead vocals), Massimiliano Liburdi (acoustic and electric guitars), Adriano Taccoli (piano, keyboards, Sfx), and Luca Fareri (acoustic and electric drums and percussion).
 
     “No Unicorns” by theIcon

Website: https://www.theicon.org
Bandcamp: https://theicon.bandcamp.com/

Lyrics of “No Unicorns” by theIcon
Day after day I’ve been wondering why
All that I hear is a noise buzzing from inside
As if my heart became a bumblebee
Year after year I’ve been searching for signs
Then I realized I was looking but I was blind
There are no unicorns to be found
 
No fairytales
No epic chase
No other worlds
Nothing but stillness
Nothing’s worth fighting for
 
While after while I’ve been learning to fly
In every piece of a ceiling that is my sky
So I could be and appear as they want me to be
Since there’s no time to take care of my life
How could I furnish my tunnel the way I like?
There are no fairies, no life on Mars
 
Nothing to say
Nothing to change
Nothing but fragments of days that I cannot deny
Even when it was a lie
It was all mine
 
Welcome
Welcome to nowhere
Welcome to my empty cage
Where a dream must come to an end
It was not enough
Welcome to nowhere
I have failed so many times
Trying to find my way out
Out from this nowhere
 
For all this time
I’ve been dying to reach my paradise
Waiting for the moment, waiting for the circumstance
But everyone’s broken, every door’s locked
And I can’t get out
 
All this time
I’ve been sacrificing all my life getting used to failure
In a world of Nobel’s and models
And everybody looks so good
And everybody has to fake a life of happy moments
 
No fairytales
White ties and tails
Acting, reacting, pretending to be on a stage
Wanting to be just a Truman that never finds out
 
Welcome, welcome to nowhere
It doesn’t matter who you are
It doesn’t matter who you’ve been
It was not enough.
Welcome to nowhere
I have failed so many times
Searching my way out of this
Life in a blank screen
 
Well done,
This is not my world
This is not my planet
This is not my world
This is not my planet
This is not my world
This is not my planet
This is not my world
How could I stand still?