One of the earliest tracks written for the album. The title is taken from the book "Human, All Too Human" by Nietzsche. The excerpt details how all of the evils in the world were unleashed from Pandora's Box but one. That remaining gift eventually given to man is hope. Hope prolongs suffering with the glimmer that one day things will get better. This is the second track to reprise the thematic riff structure found in the introduction. Listen carefully before the outro begins and you can hear me stomping on a pedal box.
lyrics
Hope prolongs the torments of man,
but it's all that I've got.
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The instrumentation alone is so viscerally emotive and still outstanding on a technical level… Add to that the masterfully raw vocals and profoundly beautiful lyrical imagery, and you’re left with one of the most soul-stirring pieces of music in all of rock’s history. Simply the greatest screamo band of all time. There is nothing quite like it. Audrey
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