Blood stains paint the pages, my nose drips, cracked lips
Coffee stains keeping these wet eyes open
Shame will keep you awake
A vice that remains unresolved
The feeling that you're slowly fucking dying
Every night I wake up dreaming
Only to find I am not breathing
The mistakes of my past, paths that leave me seething
The lungs unfilled that keep on screaming
I'll never see a sunrise beyond those clouds
Lie in the dusk aftermath
Staring down a ghost road
Looking through a window
Only seeing your own reflection
And never taking the first step
Smoke billows up
Covering the daylight with night
Create the ashen sunset
The infamous forest covered by the mourning sky
And we're anchored to the black cloud
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