I was drawing in rain smell until the back of my head broke through the water. There was no more calmness in my spine, there was only a cold wetness.
A single drop of color in a sad and static pool, A passing, subtle fragrance in a cold and empty room. You were burning up over a wet and darkened oak. I thought that you would burn me; you passed on. Now all my love has drowned and you're just swimming on the surface, All your colors bleed over my eyes. I'm drowning in the depths and you won't dare just to look down. You know I'll stare back through you, I'll stare right through your soul.
Dead weight just floating in your ocean.
I pull apart until I'm separate. The unity, singleness of birth becomes the unintelligible chaos of ends. Dead weight just floating in your ocean. I've become a whisper, I've floated out to black apeiron. I've become the end, I've drifted on. You'll never find me.
Toronto band Respire deliver a post-hardcore tour de force on the largest scale possible, orchestrally rich and incessantly uncompromising. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 6, 2021