Broken Glass Just Tastes Like Blood (2014)

Broken Glass Just Tastes like Blood

Tracklist:

The Rubicon
[R/H]ome is Burning
Bottleneck
Non Serviam
Ten of Swords
Cut Deep
Youngbloods [The Amity Affliction cover]
Everlasting Contrast
You Know What They Say
Broken Glass Just Tastes Like Blood

Partial Lyrics:

“And when this river’s dead and dry,
Then like Caesar I’ll cast the die
I’ve made up my mind, I’m cutting ties, ālea iacta est;
I’m crossing the Rubicon and laying my PAST TO REST
(ALL MY DEMONS FIGHT FOR ME NOW)
(and I’m not looking back again)
(I’M BREAKING THE LAW ON IMPERIUM)
(My love was never earned by them)
(SI VIS PACEM, PARA BELLUM)
(All my demons fight for me now)
I’m done building fucking bridges, I’ve set every one I had ablaze
I won’t need to walk on water to cross a riverbed of ash and clay
So I welcome drought; I’m done with rain
Let famine come; I’ll thrive in pain
I’ll harness the SUN and burn away
The MIST, the WATER, YESTERDAY.”
- “The Rubicon”, Broken Glass Just Tastes Like Blood (2014)
→written by: Kato

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“I can feel God’s light
(LIKE FLAME AGAINST MY SKIN)
If this is holy love, I’ll stay in the shade of sin
You can fill your mouths with names and numbers,
armor yourself with verse and psalms,
I’ll spit Leviticus back into your face
Your faith has driven nails into my palms
You can sew my hands together
stitch my lips and trap my tongue
but you can't make me fucking pray;
I declare non serviam.”
- “Non Serviam”, Broken Glass Just Tastes Like Blood (2014)
→written by: Kato

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“Life handed me a sword and I took it by the blade
Put a scar across my heartline I know will never…
(trails off, music slows to one note)
…fade
(Instruments start again: 1, 2, 3, 4)
Martyrdom, kingdom come
(Seth backing) Call me like the war drums
The sky above’s been darkening
(Seth + Anarchy backing) The battlefields we till laid fallowing
Do you think it’s time we sow seed again…?
Or is it all too… late?
If I chart the stars, the transit of mars, cut the deck and burn the cards
Cassandra, can I change my fate?
Or was I doomed from the start?
Welcome to the edge of infinity
Count the sins and add the holy trinity
God is dead and He rots within me
Facing plagues, now in blades, we count back from…
Ten of swords
Stateless wards
we begged for peace and were force-fed war
I swear it’s colder now than it’s ever been before…”
- “Ten of Swords”, Broken Glass Just Tastes Like Blood (2014)
→written by: Kato

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“Our lullabies were screaming matches or broken bottles
We spent childhood swallowing the shards of our shattered hearts
Audi, vide, tace, they say—Well, we’re breaking silence now and won’t play that part
We heard, we saw, we locked our lips, we let copper fill our lungs and mouths
And quoting Exodus 20:12 at us can’t make a home out of a burning house
As children we all beg our fathers for a single taste of love
But I’ll go ahead and tell you now, kid:
All that broken glass just tastes like blood.”
- “Broken Glass Just Tastes Like Blood”, Broken Glass Just Tastes Like Blood (2014)
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