For Honor

It has -like riffs and is the most '80s song of the album. Drummer Tyler Fleming criticized this song for having too much Def Leppard influence, while keyboardist Doug Lane said it’s “gut-wrenching and torturously emotional slog in the best possible way”. The atmospheric keyboards right at the very beginning sounds almost identically to the beginning of song "Grind 2 Halt".
This is the longest song of the album, lasting nine-and-a-third minutes and is divided into three cantos. The first canto, titled "Honor", is about being honored for escaping bad times by basking in love and light, and ends the first canto with power drill sounds starting at 3:16 for about 16 seconds. The second canto, titled "Naked Truth", is about the truth that cannot be changed, making them sad. The third canto, titled "Healing Waters", is hencely about drinking healing waters to relief the pain as a result of that. The way Tom sings the 'Healing waters' lines resembles in sounding to the way sings the lyragraphs containing 'Salvation found' in the canto "Salvation" in Type O Negative song "".
== Lyrics ==
You ran away with troubled times
You said you'd change
but you never tried
Well I know
When I'm in touch is when you grow cold
Now all in vain
it's a grudge you hold
Now let go
One love
One Flesh
One light
a covenant
Of worse
Of best
One life
how could you lie?
I've said it before and I will say it again
These vows are of honor, not of cheap weapons
But forever doesn't mean that it ends
at your convenience
There's still a flame inside your eyes
I can tell right away
when you look in mine
That there's hope
Emotional fear is the avant-garde
How long will I wait
til' I watch these walls
crumble?
One love
One Flesh
One light
a covenant
Of worse
Of best
One life
how could you lie?
I've said it before and I will say it again
These vows are of honor, not of cheap weapons
But forever doesn't mean that it ends
at your convenience
Well it's sad
that we've been reduced to this
It's the naked truth
that's been torn apart
Come back
so we can fix this
A downward spiral
Never touch the ground
Well it's sad
that we've been reduced to this
It's the naked truth
that's been torn apart
Come back
so we can fix this
A downward spiral
Never touch the ground
Well it's sad
that we've been reduced to this
It's the naked truth
that's been torn apart
Come back
so we can fix this
A downward spiral
Never touch the ground
Give me those healing waters
Give me those healing waters
Give me those healing waters
Give me those healing waters
Give me those healing waters
Give me those healing waters
Give me those healing waters
Give me those healing waters
== Personnel ==
* Tom Noir – vocals, bass, writing, engineering, mixing, mastering, production
* Trey Ozinga – guitar
* Tyler Fleming – drums
* Doug Lane – keyboards
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