Edge of Infinity

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:

“I’m done building bridges, you can set those over the Rhine ablaze
If I’m wanted (UNWANTED) on either bank, I’ll let this river drain
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!

Save your promises and bargaining, the die’s already cast
As a dead traitor or new dictator, I’ll own my life at last
(VINDICA TE TIBI)
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)

This will be my new Zela
(VENI, VIDI, VICI)
I will conquer all
Vindica te tibi, the world will be my Gaul
Welcome to the rise of Venus’s sons; the dawn of a new era

(LOVE, BEAUTY, AND PROSPERITY)
(you’ll find violence in all of these)
(DESIRE AND VICTORY)
(behold your own superficiality)
(GUARD YOUR PORTS AS I RISE FROM THE SEA)
(a river is no boundary)

Expect nothing of me, send me to the temple
(FREE ME TO SERVE YOU BETTER, JUPITER)
I’ll greet faith again in battle when I watch men lose it and TREMBLE
(YOU CAN’T CONFINE ME TO PIETY)
Think what you must, give me your trust
(LEGISLATE THAT I ABDICATE, IT ONLY BREAKS MY CHAINS, IT MUST BE FATE)
Yeah, now there’s blood on the wheels and not rust
(YOU CARVED THIS SHAPE THAT I GLADLY TAKE)
(Oh, was it not the one you planned to make?)
I MARCH ON ROME ON THE PATH YOU PAVED

Save your promises and bargaining, the die’s already cast
As a dead traitor or new dictator, I’ll own my life at last
(VINDICA TE TIBI)
I’ve made up my mind, I’m cutting ties— ālea iacta est; 
I’m crossing the Rubicon and laying my PAST TO REST!”
- “The Rubicon”, Broken Glass Just Tastes Like Blood (2014)
→written by: Kato

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“All roads
(All roads)
All roads lead (HOME)
All roads
(All roads)
All roads lead (TO ROME)
All roads
(ALL ROADS)
ALL ROADS LEAD NOWHERE!

OH, WHAT A LEGACY!
Crumbled pillars and forgotten Gods
A million battles won, but at how great a cost?
Immortality through destruction, 
ALL IS SAVED IF ALL IS LOST!

Stand with me and watch smoke fill the sky
Our home is burning, now, this is how it dies
Reduced to ashes, preserved by flames
All roads lead back to a memory ablaze
ONLY THE VIOLENCE SURVIVES
All roads lead nowhere, and there’s only us to blame

It’s here that lie 
the greatest minds,
Artists, leaders, bleeders at the shrines
The insane and the inspired
All of us raised in the place 
where we fall to and set 
the fire

ALL ROADS
(ALL ROADS)
ALL ROADS LEAD US BACK TO THESE STREETS
ALL ROADS
(ALL ROADS)
ALL ROADS LED YOU TO ME

Stand with me and watch smoke fill the sky
Our home is burning, now, this is how it dies
Reduced to ashes, preserved by flames
All roads lead back to a memory ablaze
ONLY THE VIOLENCE SURVIVES
All roads lead nowhere, and there’s only us to blame

Steal the spark, forget Prometheus
Rewrite history then burn the book with us
If we go up in smoke, they still will know
That this funeral pyre was never a home
This is a warning, this is an oath
If you follow a warpath, well, ALL ROADS—

All roads
All roads lead—

To you standing here with me
Watching smoke fill the sky
Our home is burning, now, this is how it dies
Reduced to ashes, preserved by flames
All roads lead back to a memory ablaze
(only the violence survives)
All roads lead nowhere, and there’s only us to blame

(only the violence)
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
(only the violence survives)”
- “[R/H]ome is Burning”, Broken Glass Just Tastes Like Blood (2014)
→written by: Kato

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“Have the walls started closing in yet? 
Did you even think to check?
No turning back now, the only way out’s ahead
Buck up, kid, and welcome to the bottleneck

They’ll use you if they can, kill you if they can’t 
So you better learn to RUN
before they shoot you in the back with the STARTING GUN

Do you think something’s missing?
Are you getting tunnel vision?
Now what did you expect?
Kid, your window’s closing 
you’re dead then and you know it
welcome to the bottleneck

THIS IS A CHOICE POINT
NOW MAKE UP YOUR MIND
YOU’RE ONLY CORNERED WHEN YOU LAY DOWN AND DIE

This is a greeting for the trapped and the lost
Facing a maze of closing jaws
Run while you can, while they still think you won’t 
Make the goddamned break before those teeth meet your throat 
WELCOME TO 
THE BOTTLENECK

WAKE UP
THIS IS AN AMBUSH 
THEY’RE CALLING THE GAME TO THE BLIND!

THIS IS EVERYTHING I LIVED TO TELL
A MESSAGE FROM YOUR FUTURE SELF
BITE THE HAND AND FIGHT LIKE HELL
BREAK THE BOTTLENECK

WAKE UP
BREAK THE BOTTLENECK
WAKE UP
BREAK THE BOTTLENECK
(you’re only bleeding)
BREAK THE BOTTLENECK
(get up, you’re only bleeding)
(this is a greeting)
(this is a choice point)
(this is an ambush)
(this is everything I lived to tell)
BREAK THE BOTTLENECK 
BREAK FREE”
- “Bottleneck”, Broken Glass Just Tastes Like Blood (2014)
→written by: Anarchy

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“Our Father who art in Heaven, holding truth and virtue like water in Your hands:
lost to the stigmata; slipping through the CRACKS

(HALLOWED BE OUR SHAME)
(I EAT OF THE FRUIT AND SEE CLEARLY NOW)
(ALL THAT AWAITS US IN THE SKY IS RAIN)

How great a transgression is a curious mind?
Is the essence of purity to be deaf, dumb, and blind?
To mindlessly follow the wrathful,
jealous, 
absent, 
and ASININE?

Obey your earthly masters; 
there’s holiness in subjugation 
Cower before the oppressors; 
make no retaliation 
(DON’T YOU KNOW YOU LIVE TO SERVE?)
(YOU WERE BORN DIRTY, IT’S ALL YOU DESERVE)
ORIGINAL SIN CONTAMINATION
LIVE ON YOUR KNEES, AFRAID OF DAMNATION

Call me a sinner, I’ll outdo your disgust
Revel in Genesis; your holy bloodlines, incestuous!

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!

Oh, I can feel God’s light 
(LIKE FLAME AGAINST MY SKIN)
If this is holy love, I’ll stay in the shade of sin

We’re all open to interpretation
By the fangs of a Christian nation
Go ahead with your masturbatory self-congratulations
And cherry-pick as you wish your holy condemnations

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

Oh, I can feel God’s light 
(LIKE FLAME AGAINST MY SKIN)
If this is holy love, I’ll stay in the shade of sin

Inconsistent, denialism—
unrealistic, despotism— 
predatory, sadistic 
evangelism 

Break the neck of the lamb and defend the flood
could you bear to spill your own child’s blood?
Will you raise the knife and label it love?
Will you call hesitation sin?
Is it mercy or cruelty you have the most faith in?

(Oh, I can feel God’s light)
(LIKE FLAME AGAINST MY SKIN)
(If this is holy love, I’ll stay in the shade of sin)

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…

NO, I WON’T READ THIS AS A BELL TOLL
WE’LL TAKE THE CARDS AS THEY’RE PULLED
YOU THINK YOU’LL FIND US FEARFUL?
(Dismayed this not our captains…?)
YES, AS SPARROWS EAGLES

They forgot that we were born to run
it’s nothing new for you or me
a fronte praecipitium 
a tergo lupi

Quod obstat via fit
non desistas non exieris
oderint dum metuant!

[instrumental interlude]

ex umbris ad lucem; carpe noctem
I promise you we won’t let this be the end
Done digging graves so let’s draw again
trade the suit of spades for the suit of blades
(And 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

Life handed me a sword
(oderint dum metuant!)
and I took it by the blade
(Quod obstat via fit)
Put a scar across my heart-line
(non desistas non exieris)
I know will never fade!

NEVER FADE!”
- “Ten of Swords”, Broken Glass Just Tastes Like Blood (2014)
→written by: Kato

—

“If you wanna cut me down…
You’re gonna have to CUT! ME! DEEP!

[breakdown]

Take the blade and sever this bloodline
can’t carve yourself out of me
Oh, I agree, it’s about time
We start sawing at this family tree

YEAH!

If you wanna cut me down,
You’re gonna have to cut me DEEP!
I won’t be counted OUT!
Not while my heart still BEATS!

ball the fist, check it off the list
get your knuckles kissed
give the knife a twist
get the gist, 
man, you won’t be missed!

You make me fucking sick! (BITCH!)
I’M DONE DEALING WITH YOUR SHIT!
BLACKENED EYES, WHO’S PROUD OF IT?!
DUNNO, BUT I HAVEN’T HIT THE GROUND YET!
NO, I’M NOT TAPPING OUT YET!

OH—

If you wanna cut me down,
You’re gonna have to cut me DEEP!
I won’t be counted OUT!
Not while my heart still BEATS!

TRY CUTTING THROUGH THE HAZE
TRY CUTTING THROUGH YOUR SON
TRY CARVING OUT A PEDESTAL 
BY GUTTING EVERYONE

DO YOU THINK YOU’RE COMING OUT ON TOP?
(WELL I’M STILL IN THE RUNNING)
I’M NEVER GONNA STOP
(so keep cutting)

‘CAUSE—

If you wanna cut me down,
You’re gonna have to cut me DEEP!
I won’t be counted OUT!
Not while my heart still BEATS!

CUT DEEP!”
- “Cut Deep”, Broken Glass Just Tastes Like Blood (2014)
→written by: Kato & Anarchy

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“Oh, you know what they say:
nothing gold can stay
good thing the whole world was built on LEAD!

lead in the gasoline
lead in the paint
lead coming out the sink, going down the drain
heavy metal’s in our blood, got us stealing daddy’s gun
for lead straight to the brain!

Well, you know what they say—

history repeats itself 
wish the damn snake would swallow something else
on déjà vu we’re born and bred
and it’s still raining lead

they say our parents’ generation was poisoned from the start
chewing on their baby toys, it iron-clad their hearts
making their kin and kind pay for their damaged minds
Now we’re choking on new fumes but they still taste the SAME

Well, you know what they say—

history repeats itself 
wish the damn snake would swallow something else
on déjà vu we’re born and bred
and it’s still raining lead

I know what they said
bite the bullet;
Quod nocet, saepe docet
but can’t you put down the whip once the horse is dead?

history repeats itself 
wish the damn snake would swallow something else
history repeats itself 
It’s still raining lead

You know what they say
you know what they say
nothing gold can stay
so cast us all in lead.”
- “You Know What They Say”, 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)
→written by: ∞