"Keeping the Blade"

"Keeping the Blade" is a song by the American rock band Coheed and Cambria. It is the first song on their 2005 album Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV - Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness.

Lyrics
[Instrumental]

Story Context
"" As with most of the instrumental tracks (especially those with piano) this track is simply meant to be the bridge from the previous chapter into this new one. We are switching perspectives (perhaps realities is a better word) for the start of this album.

Trivia

 * The Violin was played by Meg Okura & Julianne Klopotic, the Viola by Ron Lawrence, the Cello by Tomas Ulrich, with Strings Arrangement by Karl Berger.
 * This features a Piano Interlude.
 * It combines the melodies from "Second Stage Turbine Blade" and "The Ring in Return", which were the opening instrumental tracks for their previous two albums respectively.
 * Along this same line, the title combines portions of each album (Second Stage Turbine Blade and In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3).
 * According to Sanchez, the simple explanation of this song is: "'Keeping the Blade' is a collection of intros from both previous records, but put together—which can only mean the end."