The third proper track written for the EP as well as my favorite. I hit a wall during the writing process and wound up writing three dud tracks after OCD, one of which I grew to like (Argente des Laches), and this was the first song I wrote after OCD that I was immediately impressed with. The lyrics are a play on the popular Beatles song "Eleanor Rigby", which I had been listening to quite a bit at the time. My favorite moment of this is the light pick scrap during the brief pause before the outro.
lyrics
Dear Paul,
I looked at all the lonely people.
I wondered where they all came from.
I wondered where they all belonged,
All these lonely people.
And they asked me to deliver a message;
This is not how all the lonely people wanted to be looked at.
This is not how I wanted to be looked at.
My name will not be buried with 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