Was It Ever

by For Respect

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card
    Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.

      $4 USD  or more

     

1.
Headaches 03:05
I am too weak I am too blind to see Why you’d ever want you’d ever want you’d want to Be here with me Listening to suffering And I’m sorry for the way I am the way I Can’t stand to be Anywhere but my bed And it’s messing with it’s messing with my head I just can’t sleep Headaches are all I feel It’s all I hear it’s all I know Was it ever supposed to be fun You wring me out til im done And it hurts to feel it But you love to hear it Like the broken car you used to drive When you were young and still alive You walk the walk and talk the walk But never let your body thrive I scream it out the way I did Before I knew the simple thing The way I felt inside before I scream it out forevermore
2.
Melancholia 02:17
I vow To wipe your tears And hold you close Just as the Earth makes the foolish attempt To stop the star In its tracks In its glorious intricate dance The dance of death Please don’t despair I think that it’s beautiful and if I could Prevent this end I do not know if I would Melancholia As the beauty burns its flames And we lose all we hold dear As the tragedy awaits Will you stay here? And we all know We’re all falling down To the final call To hear everyone out
3.
I wish that you’d just call Cause I’m going through the motions It’s been a long and lonely fall And I wish that you were here Cause I just can’t wake up I’ve been waiting since November I’m lost and I can’t see And I need you more than ever The world is dark and scary It’s hard to walk alone If you were by my side now I could see the whole way home But I’m going through the motions Waves sweep me off my feet And the tides of the blue ocean Have got me lost at sea You can’t leave by myself Conversation once withheld On a freezing winter night When the snow just won’t stop falling It’s getting far too cold So I hope to hear you calling The darkness is too loud The screams are getting blinding My road back to you’s set The path is just too winding The world is dark and scary It’s hard to walk alone If you were by my side now I could see the whole way home But I’m going through the motions Waves sweep me off my feet And the tides of the blue ocean Have got me lost at sea I’ll just stay here by myself I suppose it can’t be helped The world is dark and scary Impossible alone And you’d be by my side now If you’d just pick up the phone So I’m going through the motions Been drowning as of late And the movement of the ocean Will keep me far away
4.
Fault 01:19
Are you blind to the fate of the trouble stricken man the youth are staring blank cause they could never understand The lives we used to have, the life that many lead Cause feeding those of us in need is just a joke to those of greed And I’m not saying that we have to kill them all Just enough for us to show them that we mean it and we got the balls So give it up, your time is up, you’re through And remember that the fault of all the faults fall on you By any means necessary Being led like cattle To slaughter You’re gonna pay Our time is now
5.
6.
Stuck Here 03:30
Staying out of touch of to stay away from all the Things you said to me to make me feel like I was Not enough to be around with you and all your Plans to get away from all the things I said And I am sorry for the way I used to be but I don’t miss the things you used have with me And we are better off without your pain inside And I am better off without the need to fight Staying safe from you Hide away from everything I used to know But it won’t be the same everything I used to say But I won’t be the same Never gonna be enough to satisfy the The thirst you have for me, my blood and every little Thing I care about the smallest word that makes me Want to scream it loud enough to drown it out And all I really need is you to leave me be and Just forget the love you used to have for me and Never shed a tear I swear I’m better off with Calmly leaving here to get point across Staying safe from me Hide away from All the things I want to be I’m always stuck the same Everything you need from me But you don’t feel the pain Your death poems and cigarettes And an air of superiority Twice the thickness of Mason jar glass And yet twice as fragile An egg without a shell, a body without organs A state of potentiality that will never be realised Ten rose colored deaths in the middle of your skull And still not enough. And still not enough for you The last drop of joy continues to loosen its grasp Reminds me of a dream I had. I go for an ill-advised ride My body molds to the shape of bent metal and cracked plastic Not the solace From your savior Mouthing out the safeword We're still steady Just your unpaid labor Just your rusted fetters Forged in flames

about

Our first 5 songs. Written between Spring of '24 and Fall of '25. Thank you.

credits

released November 22, 2025

For Respect is:

Hayden Groeschel - Guitar, Lead Vocals
Dom Collins - Bass Guitar
Jacob Miller - Guitar, Vocals on Stuck Here
Ezra Shneyderman - Drums, Backup Vocals

Recorded mostly live at Rettner Studio in Rochester, NY
by Elek Yuhas
Mixed and mastered by Samuel Joseph Scott
at outforarip in Boston, MA
All photography by Caleb Bennett

Special thanks to Dylan, Savio, Vic, Will, and all of our amazing friends.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

For Respect Rochester, New York

Rochester Emotional Hardcore.

Hayden, Dom, Jacob, Ezra

contact / help

Contact For Respect

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like For Respect, you may also like: