We are at the crossroads
that will test our hearts

War, famine, and pestilence
shake us apart

People’s love will grow so cold,
Forgetting the way to light,

Broad is the path to destruction
Narrow, the way to life

[chorus]
Jesus is Lord, Jesus saves
Hosanna! 
To him, all glory and praise

We can all be like God
Is the serpent's lie

While we worship the work of our hands
In arrogance and pride

They tell us peace and safety,
Then destruction strikes

Broad is the path to destruction
Narrow, the way to life

Crossroads

Modes About Me - Bottom of the Waterfall

Album:
Happy Not Hateful

Guitar:
@themysteriousdecibel

Bass:
@thefunkykaiju

Producer:
tssrecording.com/

Lyrics:
there's a mirror
at the end of the earth
if you look long enough
you can see the truth
there's a lesson
at the end of it all
in a message in a bottle
at the bottom of the waterfall
get it
go get it
good riddance
just kidding 
just go
god as my witness
you better get it
even though I bet my soul
that you end up missing

and it's great to be alive
live another day
take another life
I'm fading out of patience 
and the bandwidth I've been running
has been making me feel latency
change my ways bitch that's not fun
change my ways bitch I wanna die young
but I can't die young
If I don't die soon
cause I'm bout to be 30 
and they call me old dude
call me old dude cause my skin is grey
abuse this body can take
now never will I ever have to lay awake
thinkin bout the things I can never change
 

Happy Not Hateful

Bottom of the Waterfall

Secrets of Bermuda

For anyone who's ever been angry with time.

The Thief

https://ffm.to/chaos-and-gears
https://youtube.com/shorts/uDePMz4bzEM?feature=share
https://www.tiktok.com/@beatingedge/video/7475555494254349590
Given the very recent events surrounding the war between Russia and Ukraine, the upheavals brought by Trump, and the dozens of ongoing conflicts around the world - definitely not the kind of stuff that lets you sleep soundly - we came up with this song!  
We were actually supposed to release a completely different track, a parody about voice assistants at home, but obviously, the theme of war and chaos ended up taking over.  
Enjoy the listen, and if you’re an Alexa & Co. user, stay tuned - our next song will surely get a sarcastic nod of approval from you! Let’s just hope that by the time it’s out, the conflict in Ukraine will have, in some way, come to an end.
Released on major streaming platforms on February 24, 2025.
©2025 Beating Edge

Lyrics:

All around the world’s unraveling
Searching for peace while madmen pull strings
Turning lives into pawns feeding their tanks
Filling their ranks with our lives

Once-thriving cities now hollow and dark
Echoing loss echoing fear
And we stand here wondering
Was peace ever real

Was it ever more than a fragile dream
Here on Earth down here in chaos
Caught in the gears of someone else's scheme
Feeling the weight of our lost cause

Once-thriving cities now hollow and dark
Echoing loss echoing fear
And we stand here wondering
Was peace ever real

In the shadow of shattered dreams
We're searching for a spark of hope
Through the chaos and gears it seems
We're just too far around to cope

Once-thriving cities now hollow and dark
Echoing loss echoing fear
And we stand here wondering
Was peace ever real

Once-thriving cities now hollow and dark
Echoing loss echoing fear
And we stand here wondering
Was peace ever real

Chaos and Gears

YouTube Short

Do I seem lighter now?
Do I pirouette into the room?
Have the shades all been ripped away?
Are the bleeding hearts now in bloom?
Mhm

Honey, you're the torch that has shone through the night
Just for me
Lovely, the glow that has pierced my skin
And set me alight
On this cool, dark night

Cool, dark night
Cool, dark night
Cool, dark night
Cool, dark night
Tonight

Do I seem happy now?
Am I now a joyful sight?
I think I used to be funny
Let's see if I am when I see you tonight
Mhm

Honey, you're the torch that has shone through the night
Just for me
Lovely, the glow that has pierced my skin
And set me alight
On this cool, dark night

Lovely, the way your skin adheres to mine
Lovely, the hills I trace down your spine
Lovely, all the ways you are tonight, on this

Cool, dark night
Cool, dark night
Cool, dark night
Cool, dark night
When we burn most bright


A Torch in the Night

Learning how to incorporate Splice
Song #40 of 100 first songs project

Brain Fried

Shady Lady

“It was nothing.”
“Just a sound.”
Then I woke up on the floor, fists bleeding.

I held the day like a loaded gun
Thought I’d buried all the damage done
But you slipped in like static flash
One word—and the whole world crashed

I saw your ghost in the shape of the light
I heard your laugh, and it cut like a knife
I braced for calm, I got the storm—
Now I’m screaming in a uniform norm

It was nothing
Just a phrase
Just your name
In someone else’s face

It was nothing—
But it tore me apart
Every fucking trigger rewires my heart

TRIGGER POINT—
Now I’m back at the edge
My body remembers
What I swore I’d forget

TRIGGER POINT—
Now I tear through the seams
You’re not in my life
But you still own my screams

I collapse like clockwork
On a landmine of dreams
I breathe.
You detonate me.

Picked my teeth off the bathroom floor
Swore this time I’d feel no more
But your name still fits in my mouth
Like a knife I can't spit out

I punch the mirror like it might forget
Bleed just to prove I still exist
I'm a shrine to the hurt I hide—
A trigger dressed in human pride

It was nothing
Just a tone
Just a look
In someone I don’t know

It was nothing—
Just my brain on repeat
But I taste your goodbye every time I breathe

TRIGGER POINT—
Now I’m back at the edge
My body remembers
What I swore I’d forget

TRIGGER POINT—
Now I tear through the seams
You’re not in my life
But you still own my screams

I collapse like clockwork
On a landmine of dreams
I breathe.
You detonate me.

You moved on—I relive
You healed—I split at the seams
You forgot—I fucking REMEMBER
EVERY TRIGGER. EVERY SCENE.

I BUILT THIS CAGE. I SWALLOWED THE KEY.
I’M NOT JUST BROKEN—I’M DESIGNED TO BLEED.

TRIGGER POINT—
I don’t even fight
Just brace for the bleed
As the memory bites

TRIGGER POINT—
It’s not you, it’s me
I made this prison
Out of your memory

I don’t move, I don’t scream
Just burn in routine
There’s no cure for this dream—
I am the trigger
I am the scene

Act of Corrosion - Trigger Point

Death race

overdrive

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