It's that calm before a storm that scares me most.
My body aches and cracks my skull like thunder
as though this wind has braced itself for chaos,
but my shaking hands just won't.
How your eyes hold in the pain.
Emptiness is caught in your throat
and your hollow voice
is just waiting to break with this dead ground.
You say your sadness comes like the weather;
It's always changing. It never lets you stay comfortable.
Are you comfortable?
If every raindrop were a dagger
and every cloud a memory
what's left?
Right now, it's still calm. Right now, you're still here.
The weight of your past won't come falling back on you
if you don't let it.
Hold that calm inside of your head.
Keep your mind open.
It's the colour in the clouds approaching
that leaves me still searching for hope in what's broken.
I was lucky enough to play with this band for their first show. Needless to say, every time I've seen them since, I've been blown away. Hoping to see them again sometime very soon! Jake Friedrich
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
one of the best and most excellent midwest emo record there is! amazingly well mixed for midwest emo. waterbed from this record compared to their mv version proves how important a good mix is, because suddenly this song sounds a lot more raw yet well produced in here. singaporecentralemo