Emerald Street Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Wambs 

Cover art for Emerald Street lyrics by Alexisonfire

They really hate Hamilton, don't they? Listen to This Could Be Anywhere and Mailbox Arson if you don't believe me.

George lives down near Emerald Street in downtown Hamilton. When they played their Christmas shows here this year George mentioned this, and talked alot about how much he loved the city despite everything that is wrong with it.

So my guess would be that this is just about the darker side of Hamilton as a city, and not them actually hating it.

He doesn't live there anymore. He and his wife moved to the East Mountain, much nicer and safer than downtown.

The entire lower city isn't "downtown", blisscent. There is so much more history in the lower city in neighbourhoods like St. Clair, Durand, Stinson and Kirkendall. The same can rarely be said for the bland suburbia of the mountain, most of which didn't exist until 1950.