What once was means of unity
Has turned to fodder for a profit spree
They're checking pulses and taking notes
to force their insolance down your throat
Every entry and every word
Is taken to a level absurd
Their voice announce a prompt ally
to choices manufactured by
An enterprise promise
to the highest bidding
And you are the product,
you are what they're selling
Coersed we succumb to
a greedy bellowing
We all are the product,
we are what they're selling
This is what it's come to -
We are what they're selling
It's a fact which they imbue
We are what they're selling
Justified through distorted truth
and crooked views of the uncouth
A bold faced lie made solely to
Numb and control while scamming you
Reject the notions that they espouse
Embrace resistance that will arouse
Make them give up, make them give in
and turn upside down their grin
Release what you keep within
credits
from Still Waters Run Deep,
released October 29, 2013
Music written & performed by Totem Skin
Lyrics by Henrik Dahlqvist
Mixed, mastered & engineered by Lewis Johns
Assistant Engineered by Tony James
Recorded at the Ranch Production House
supported by 75 fans who also own “Still Waters Run Deep”
Swirling guitars, furious drums, vocals that at the same time howl from infinite distance and are right up in your head; everything put into dissonant form with the help of unconventional songwriting. This album is my personal key to the icelanding black metal madness that I've ignored for way too long! Lukas Kaufmann
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
supported by 65 fans who also own “Still Waters Run Deep”
Hearing the songs while reading the narrative behind the lyrics, I felt overwhelmed by this tragic story in which humans and artificial intelligence couldn't coexist side by side. Their reciprocal annihilation was inevitable. Except one "sole survivor, in a ship filled with memories. She had become the proof of Earth, proof that life had existed there, a voice for all the species and beauty we once knew". A dystopian concept dressed up in brilliant musicianship! @Slevin, thanks, I owe it to you! Umbra Cornuta