In the middle of the night you awaken.
Your fragile glass house smashed by your self content.
Your sense of comfort broken the moment she held your hand.
She never looked in your eyes as she threatened goodbye.
The faint sound of sirens soon makes it clear.
There is nothing worse than this, there is nothing worse than this.
Years of experience overflowing.
The only constant is never knowing.
The agony builds, the tension amounts.
The seconds to minutes that nobody counts.
You’re facing yourself like never before.
An image of pressure that you never bore.
They said just take your time.
I plead the fault is mine.
And in your eyes I can see the sadness building.
Your age is showing now.
There’s nothing more that I can say.
And even less that I can do.
To save you from you.
And in your eyes I can see the sadness building.
Your age is showing now.
There’s nothing more that I can do.
To save you from you.
I’m trying to.
credits
from What Safe Means,
released October 10, 2014
Music: Zuzu Depoyster & Ahmad Husayn
Lyrics: Gerard Kristan Nadaison
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