Rites of Spring
Rites of Spring was an American emocore band from Washington, D.C. Although… Read Full Bio ↴Rites of Spring was an American emocore band from Washington, D.C. Although they were only together from the spring of 1984 through the winter of 1986, they helped define the Revolution Summer sound along with Dag Nasty and Embrace, among others.

Following the band's dissolution, singer and guitarist Guy Picciotto, guitarist Eddie Janney, and drummer Brendan Canty formed One Last Wish with Embrace alumnus Michael Hampton. The three later joined former Rites bassist Mike Fellows for a quasi-reincarnation of Rites of Spring named Happy Go Licky, releasing an LP/CD of various live concert recordings though never producing any studio work. Picciotto and Canty eventually teamed up with the former Embrace singer Ian MacKaye (owner of the band’s label, Dischord Records) in Fugazi.

Rites of Spring was the band’s self-titled debut album from 1985. Its twelve songs were recorded at Inner Ear Studios in February of 1985, and released on vinyl in June of that year as Dischord Records #16. The album was rereleased on CD and cassette in 1987, with an additional track from the same session, "Other Way Around", as well as the four songs from the Rites' follow-up EP, All Through a Life, Dischord #22. The CD and cassette originally retained the number "16" while the 1991 repress, as well as the 2001 remastered version of the same seventeen songs, were numbered "16CD" and given the new title End on End.

The band are named after Igor Stravinsky's famous ballet composition entitled The Rite of Spring/Le Sacre du printemps. The piece is widely dissonant and the context of the ballet is extremely bleak, revolving around pagan rituals.
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Rites of Spring Lyrics


"For Want Of I - I believed - memory might mirror no reflections…
- deeper than inside I'm going down, going down, deeper than inside The world is…
- drink deep Drink deep, it's just a taste, and it might not…
01 End On End I've had days of end on end When nothing changed 'cause…
04-Hain's Point I read somewhere that every wall's a door to something…
05 for want of I - I believed - memory might mirror no reflections…
05. All There Is It's more than love And it's less than love It's what I…
06 drink deep Drink deep, it's just a taste, and it might not…
07 Other Way Around Maybe what you've seen isn't part of me at all It…
09. By Design Time heals all wounds they say but the self-inflicted won't …
11 Persistent Vision I was the champion of forgive forget But I haven't found…
13 End On End I've had days of end on end When nothing changed 'cause…
14 All Through a Life All through a life and through the lives that came…



15 Hidden Wheel It never seemed that close to me No it never seemed…
16. In Silence-Words Away Sometimes it's not the giving When what's given is gone and…
All Is There It's more than love And it's less than love It's what I…
All There Is It's more than love And it's less than love It's what I…
All Though A Life All through a life and through the lives that came…
By Design Time heals all wounds they say but the self-inflicted won't …
Deep Than Inside I'm going down, going down, deeper than inside The world is…
Deeper Than Inside I'm going down, going down, deeper than inside The world is…
DeeperThanInside I'm going down, going down, deeper than inside The world is…
Drink Deep Drink deep, it's just a taste And it might not come…
DrinkDeep Drink deep, it's just a taste, and it might not…
End of End I've had days of end on end When nothing changed 'cause…
For Want I - I believed - memory might mirror no reflections…
Hain I read somewhere that every wall's a door to something…
Hidden Wheel It never seemed that close to me No it never seemed…
In Silence Sometimes it's not the giving When what's given is gone and…
in silence words away Sometimes it's not the giving When what's given is gone and…
In Silence/Words Away Sometimes it's not the giving When what's given is gone and…
In Silence/Worlds Away Sometimes it's not the giving When what's given is gone and…
Nudes I want to talk, like I'm talking to myself I want…
Other Way Around Maybe what you've seen isn't part of me at all It…
Patience Wanting to understand To understand a hand that's not my han…
Persistent Vision I was the champion of forgive forget But I haven't found…
Remainder We are all trapped in prisons of the mind, it's…
Rites Of Spring Caught in time so far away from where our hearts…
Silence Words Away Sometimes it's not the giving When what's given is gone and…
Spring Caught in time so far away from where our hearts…
Theme Cruelty is the better part of your honesty And when you're…
Words Away Sometimes it's not the giving When what's given is gone and…


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