The second to last song completed and the only one to feature a guest musician, featuring Justin Butcher on backing vocals and providing the spoken word. The chant at the end is based on a verse out of the Iliad.
The EP was originally intended to be 5 tracks at about 9 minutes but I kept writing ideas so this is one of three tracks written past the intended length.
lyrics
Only one thing is for certain,
Death comes for us all.
The gallows will take us all back down to where we belong.
**Finding rays in the darkest ways,
I traverse that which can't be known.
The great unknown.
Die free, so when you see standing in the holy places
the abomination that causes desolation,
let the reader understand...**
There are no oaths of faith between lions and men,
nor do wolves and lambs have hearts of concord.
credits
from Untitled,
released June 28, 2013
Sound clip from A Fistful of Dollars
**Guest vocals and lyrics provided by Justin Butcher
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