For Honor

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"**For Honor**" is an October Noir song included on their fourth album *Letters to Existence*, released in 2023. It has Def Leopard-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 Static-X 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 Kenny Hickey sings the lyragraphs containing 'Salvation found' in the canto "Salvation" in Type O Negative song "These Three Things".

## Lyrics

**[Canto I. "Honor"]**

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

**[Canto II. "Naked Truth"]**

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

**[Canto III. "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

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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2. "Volatile"
3. "Trinity"
4. "Alpha Omega"
5. "Exhume"
6. "Silicon"
7. "Deep Woods"
8. "Vertebra Seraphim"
9. "Feel Heart Love"
10. "Beautifool"

1. "Tombstones"
2. "Burn"
3. "Spellbound"
4. "Little Drummer Boy"
5. "Symmetry"
6. "Black Light"
7. "Lavender"
8. "The Veil"
9. "Her Dark Embrace"
10. "Cauterize"

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2. "Windows"
3. "Reverence (Make You Love)"
4. "Effigy"
5. "Wine"
6. "Persephone"
7. "Serendipity"
8. "Wanderlust"
9. "Cradle the Monster"
10. "Wisteria"
11. "Sistinas"
12. "Proverbs"
13. "Goodbye Black Bird"
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2. "Endless Lonely"
3. "A Halo Hung from Horns"
4. "Forever Haunt"
5. "Deja View"
6. "Summer to Autumn"
7. "Clench"
8. "Tourniquet"
9. "**For Honor**"
10. "Flash Paper Matches"
11. "She's Gone"
12. "Winter"

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