I speak my questions slowly.
The room is quiet and anxious.
I see them in the doorway.
React with wearing patience.
We pay the price to not conform.
Our childishness, the ill informed.
My life has grown affliction.
Cut off from all intuition.
But tell me what it is, what isn’t fair.
Why are we not God’s children.
If my fear’s right, we’re just fiction.
A creation of their conviction.
Are we wasting time asking.
Wasting time drawing conclusions.
I fall short on knowledge.
These causes I don’t understand.
We’re empty gray paintings.
Hung between the neck of your fallen youth.
“Oh poor creatures. What have we done to you?”
My eyes are dull, my fists are clenched.
Your care alone is false intent.
“Oh poor creatures. What have we done?”
“What have we done to you?”
“What have we done to you?”
credits
from What Safe Means,
released October 10, 2014
Music: Zuzu Depoyster & Ahmad Husayn
Lyrics: Ahmad Husayn
Mix: Allen Hickery
Master: Bert Moose
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