Someone please tell me I'm dreaming.
Serpents slither out of the dark
and into the light wearing familiar faces.
This symbiosis burns.
Crestfallen, we are.
Her voice rises up like a choir
and the melody is deafening.
I place my hands out in front of me,
bracing for the fall.
Wait.
When you lie awake wondering what went wrong,
I want you to remember my mother
and when you threw her against the wall.
I need you to feel her fear.
I need you to feel her pain.
Feel her betrayal.
Feel her shame.
Please tell me I'm dreaming.
Wake me from the nightmare.
I place my hands in front of me,
bracing for the fall.
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