Resting on a thousand bones.
Buried with the soil they stole.
The voices still ring out in the gaps of silence.
Under the humming, the static, the violence.
We will not rest
until this ends.
Underneath the concrete you step,
inhaled in your every breath.
An insanity never satiated,
addicted to death, sedation, enslavement.
The bloodlust in which our forefathers christened
spread as quick and as quiet as the fire of their baptism.
Underwritten and signed by their god, catechisms spread the smog
until they burnt out.
We will not rest
until this ends.
As the disease spread it
destroyed everything living
and replaced what did with
graveyards called cities.
We will not rest
until this ends.
For justice, uproot the rot.
Let the rust in. Unlearn what we’re taught.
Knuckles turned white with hate.
It will crush us if it doesn’t stop.
Rush through the cracks.
Show them what they’ve wrought.
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