AFI-Sing The Sorrow

 AFI-Sing The Sorrow Album Lyrics

Misteria Cantare-The Beginning 

Love your hate, your faith is lost. You are now one of us, love your hate. Your faith lost, you are now one of us. Nothing from nowhere, I'm no at all. Radiate, recognize one silent call. As we all form one dark flame, incinerate. Nothing from nowhere, I'm no one at all. Radiate, recognize one silent call. As we all form one dark flame, as we all form one dark flame. (As we all) love your hate, your faith lost. You are now one of us, love your hate. Your faith lost, you are now one of us. 

The Leaving Song Pt.II

Don't waste your touch, you won't feel anything. Or were you sent to save me? I've thought too much, you won't find anything. Worthy of redeeming, yo he estado aqui muchas veces antes y regreso. To break down and cease all feeling, burn now what once was breathing. Reach out and you may take my heart away, imperfect cry, and scream in ecstasy. So what befalls the flawless? Look what I've built, it shines so beautifully. Now watch as it destroys me. Y regreso aqui otra vez y comienzo. To break down and cease all feeling, burn now what once was breathing. Reach out and you may take my heart away, break down and cease all feeling. Burn now what once was breathing, reach out and you may take my heart away. I saw its birth, I watched it grow. I felt it change me. I took the life, I ate it slow. Now it consumes me, I break down and cease all feeling. Burn now what once was breathing, reach out and you may take my heart away. Break down and cease all feeling, burn now what once was breathing. Reach out and you may take my heart away. Heart away, 

Bleed Black

Oh. I am exploring the inside, I find it desolate. I do implore these confines, now as they penetrate, recreate me. I'm hovering throughout time, I crumble in these days. I crumble, cannot, I cannot find. Reflection in these days, if you listen, listen, listen. Listen close, beat by beat. You can hear when the heart stops, I saved the pieces. When it broke, and ground them all to dust. I am destroyed by the inside, I disassociate. I hope to destroy the outside, it will alleviate, elevate me. Like water flowing into lungs, I'm flowing through these days. Like morphine cuts through, through deadened veins. I'm numbing in these days, so if you listen, listen, listen. Listen close, beat by beat. You can hear when the heart stops, I saved the pieces. When it broke, and ground them all to dust. I know what died that night, it can never be brought back to life. Once again, I know. I know what died that night, it can never be brought back to life. Once again, I know. I know I died that night, and I'll never be brought back to life. Once again, I know. I know I died that night, and I'll never be brought back to life. Once again, I know. If you listen, listen, listen. Listen close, beat by beat. You can hear when the heart stops, I saved the pieces. When it broke, and ground them all to dust. So, if you listen, listen, listen. Listen close, beat by beat. You can hear when the heart stops, I saved the pieces. When it broke, and ground them all to dust. 

Silver and Cold

I, I came here by day, but I left here in darkness. And found you, found you on the way. Now, it is silver and silent, it is silver and cold. You, in somber resplendence, I hold. Your sins into me, oh my beautiful one. Your sins into me, oh. As a rapturous voice escapes, I will tremble a prayer. And I'll beg for forgiveness, your sins into me. (your sins into me) Oh, my beautiful one. Light, like the flutter of wings. Feel your hollow voice rushing into me, as you're longing to sing. So, I, I will paint you in silver, I will wrap you in cold. I will lift up your voice as I sing, your sins into me. Oh, my beautiful one, now. Your sins into me, oh. As a rapturous voice escapes, I will tremble a prayer. And I'll beg for forgiveness, your sins into me. Your sins into me. Cold in life's throws, I'll fall asleep for you. Cold in life's throws, I only ask you turn away. Cold in life's throws, I'll fall asleep for you. Cold in life's throws, I only ask you turn. As you seep into me, oh my beautiful one, now. Your sins into me, oh my beautiful one. Your sins into me, oh. As a rapturous voice escapes, I will tremble a prayer. And I'll beg for forgiveness, your sins into me. Your sins into me, oh. Your sins into me. Oh, my beautiful one, now. Your sins into me, oh. As a rapturous voice escapes, I will tremble a prayer. And I'll beg for forgiveness, your sins into me. Your sins into, your sins into me. Your sins into me, oh my beautiful one. 

Dancing Through Sunday

Will you join me in this dance, this dance of misery? Cradled in imposs-impossibility? Swooning, I am swept away. Swept off my feet, with step by step by step. We take the lead, as drop by drop we start to bleed. (Oh, we dance in misery) And we dance on, and we dance on. (Oh, we dance in misery) Lost in the arms of our misery, oh. (Oh, we dance in misery) And we dance on, and we dance on. Swept off our feet, by our misery, we're swept into shadows. Will you lend yourself to beauty that will horrify? Let me hide within your black, the still inside your eyes. Deafened, caught within a cry. So sensual, as step by step by step I separate. As breath to breath I suffocate. (Oh, we dance in misery) And we dance on, and we dance on. (Oh, we dance in misery) Lost in the arms of our misery, oh. (Oh, we dance in misery) And we dance on, and we dance on. Swept off our feet by our misery, we're swept into shadows. So who will follow? Who is the lead? I know I'll leave a stain because I bleed. As we dance, we all dance. We all have no chance this horrid romance, I quit. (Oh, we dance in misery) And we dance on, and we dance on. (Oh, we dance in misery) Lost in the arms of our misery, oh. (oh, we dance in misery) And we dance on, and we dance on. Swept off our feet by our misery, we're swept into shadows. Swept off our feet by our misery, we're swept into shadows. Yeah!

Girl's Not Grey

I'll lay me down tonight much further down, swim in the calm tonight this art does drown. What follows me as the whitest lace of light, will swallow whole, just begs to be imbrued. What follows has led me to this place, where I belong with all erased. What follows, all insects sing tonight the coldest sound. I'd send God's grace tonight, could it be found? What follows me as the whitest lace of light. Will swallow whole, just begs to be imbrued. What follows as led me to this place, where I belong with all erased. I'll lay me down tonight much further down. Watch stars go out tonight on sinking ground. I'll lay me down, I'll lay me down. What follows me as the whitest lace of light, will swallow whole, just begs to be imbrued. What follows has led me to this place, where I belong with all erased. What follows, will swallow whole. What follows, will swallow whole. 

Death Of Seasons

Of late, It's harder just to go outside. To leave this dead space, with hatred so alive. Writhing with sickness, thrown into banality. I decay, killed by the weakness. But forced to return, turn it off. I watch the stars as they fall from the sky, I held a fallen star and it wept for me, dying. I feel the fallen stars encircle me, Now as they cry, out there, so quickly, grows malignant tribes. Post-human extinction excels unrecognized, feeling surrounded. So bored with mortality, I decay, all of this hatred. Is freaking real, turn it on. I watch the stars as they fall from the sky, I held a fallen star as they fall from the sky. I held a fallen star, and it wept for me, dying. I feel the fallen stars encircle me, now as they cry. It won't be all right, despite what they say. Just watch the stars tonight as they, as they disappear, disintegrate. And I disintegrate. Cause this hate is freaking real, and I hope to shade the world. As stars go out and I disintegrate. It won't be all right, despite what they say. Just look to the sky, as stars go out. 

The Great Disappointment

I can remember a place I used to go, chrysanthemums of white, they seemed so beautiful. I can remember, I searched for the amaranth. I'd shut my eyes to see, oh how I smiled then, so near the cherished ones. I knew they would appear, saw not a single one. Oh, how I smiled then, waiting so patiently. I'd make a wish and bleed, while I waited I was wasting away. While I waited I was wasting away. I can remember, dreamt them, so vividly. Soft creatures draped in white, light kisses gracing me. I can remember when I first realized, dreams were the only place to see them. While I waited I was wasting away, while I waited I was wasting away. While I waited I was wasting away. Hope was wasting away, faith was wasting away, I was wasting away. I never, never wanted this, always wanted to believe. I never, never wanted this, how could I have become? I never, never wanted this, from the start I'd been deceived. I never, never wanted this, how could I have become? I never, never wanted this, I always wanted to believe. I never, never wanted this. I never, never wanted this, from the start I'd been deceived. I never, never wanted this. Inside a crumbling effigy, but you promised. So dies all innocence, but you promised me. While I waited, I was wasting away. While I waited, I was wasting away. While I waited, I was wasting away. Hope was wasting away, faith was wasting away, I was wasting away. 

Paper Airplanes (Makeshift Wings) 

Raise high monolithic statues, so fragile as they fall. I am ever enthralled, gaze, lie and smirk in time, your arrogance will suit you well. Till fashion is dispelled, as waves of plastic fame go out of fashion. You're going out, going out, forever unknown. These waves of plastic fame go out of fashion. (These waves of plastic fame are drying up and I smile) You're going out, going out. (Because you're dying to become forever unknown, unknown) From above, a rain of ashes descends. Like anathema, I will remain, forever will remain. From below, in my seclusion. Look up to the sky to see paper wings, and watch them burn. Without habitation, you'll never find a soul inside, no life, but nothing's died. No lights, but quite the show. Just as long as no one ever knows, all motion is pantomime. As waves of plastic fame go out of fashion, you're going out, going out, forever unknown. These waves of plastic fame go out of fashion. (These waves of plastic fame are drying up and I smile) You're going out, going out. (Because you're dying to become forever unknown, unknown) From above, a rain of ashes descends. Like anathema, I will remain, forever I will remain. From below, in my seclusion. Look up to the sky, to see paper wings and watch them burn. dancing in the rain of descending ash, dancing on your grave, I'll see you all falling. Dancing in the rain of descending ash, dancing in your dust, I'll see you all falling. I'd stop it, had you a heart. (Your heart) I'd stop it, had you a heart (your heart) From above, a rain of ashes descends. Like anathema, I will remain, forever I will remain. From below, in my seclusion. Look up to the sky, to see paper wings and watch them burn. From above, a rain of ashes descends. Like anathema, I will remain, forever will remain. From below, in my seclusion. Look up to the sky, to see paper wings and watch them burn. 

The Celluloid Dream

Oh! Calling tears from deep inside, oh you're so exquisite. And in the mirror, all midnight eyes. Oh, if I could remain, but it's just a visit. All midnight eyes read vacancy, twisted, twisting. To the lovely dancing lights, I begged, may I cut in? But they never stopped playing their song, of a joyous song they sing, I've heard whispers. On a freezing note, I resonate. Just like romantic verses, juts like a joyous end. Just like a memory, it twists me. Just like romantic verses, just like a joyous end. Oh-wah, aah-aah. Twisting me, you land as lightly as the new snow, cinematic. Onto the melting boy, and melt away. You light as gently, you're so cinematic. Bathed in your radiance, I melt. In the glitter, in the dark, sunk into velvet. Praying this will never end, in the shadow of a star, in static pallor. I realized I never began. Just like romantic verses, just like a joyous end. Just like a memory, it twists me. Just like romantic verses, just like a joyous end. Oh-wah, aah-aah. Twisting me, you land as lightly as the new snow, cinematic. Onto the melting boy, and melt away. You light as gently, you're so cinematic. Bathed in your radiance, I melt. All the colors upon leaving, all will turn to grey. All the colors upon leaving, all will turn to grey. (All grey) all the colors. (All grey) upon leaving. (All grey all will turn to grey. (All grey) all the colors. (All grey) upon leaving. (All grey) all will turn to grey. Grey. Twisting me, you land as lightly as the new snow, cinematic. Onto the melting boy, and melt away. You light as gently, you're so cinematic. Bathed in your radiance. You land as lightly as the new snow, cinematic. You land as lightly as the new snow, and melt away. You land as lightly as the new snow, cinematic. Bathed in your radiance, I melt. 

The Leaving Song

Walked away, heard them say. Poison hearts will never change. Walk away again, turned away in disgrace. Felt the chill upon my face, cooling from within. Hard to notice gleaming from the sky, when you're staring at the cracks. Hard to notice what is passing by, with eyes lowered. You walked away, heard them say. Poison hearts will never change, walk away again. All the cracks they'll lead right to me, all the cracks will crawl right through me. All the cracks they'll lead right to me, All the cracks will crawl right through me. And I fell apart, as I walked away, heard them say. Poison hearts will never change, walk away again. Turned away in disgrace, felt the chill upon my face. Cooling from within. 

But Home Is Nowhere

Twenty-six years and seems like I've just begun. To understand my, my intimate is no one. When the director sold the show, who. Bought its last rites? They cut the cast, the music and the lights. This is my line, this is eternal. How did I ever end up here? Discarnate, preternatural. My prayers to disappear. Absent of grace, marked as infernal. Ungranted in dead time left me disowned, to this nature so unnatural. I remain alone. Twenty-six years end, still speaking in these tongues, such revelations, while understood by no one. When the new actor stole the show, who. Questioned his grace? Please clear this house of ill acquired taste. This is my line, this is eternal. How did I ever end up here? Discarnate, preternatural. My prayers to disappear, absent of grace, marked as infernal. Ungranted in dead time and left me disowned, to this nature so unnatural. I remain alone. Give me something, give me something, give me something, give me something, give me something, give me something real. I lay strewn across the floor, can't solve this puzzle. Everyday, another small piece. Can be found, oh I lay strewn across the floor. Pieced up, in sorrow. The pieces are lost, the pieces don't fit. Pieced together incomplete, and empty. This is my line, this is eternal. How did I ever end up here? Discarnate, preternatural. My prayers to disappear, absent of grace marked as infernal. Ungranted in dead time and left me disowned, in the nature so unnatural. I remain alone. This is my line, this is eternal. How did I end up here? Discarnate, preternatural. My prayers to disappear, absent of grace marked as infernal. Ungranted in dead time, and left me disowned. To this nature so unnatural, I remain alone. 

This Time Imperfect

We held hands on the last night on earth, our mouths filled with dust. We kissed in the fields and under trees, screaming like dogs, bleeding dark into the leaves. It was empty on the edge of town, but we knew everyone floated along the bottom of the river. So we walked through the waste, where the road curved into the sea and they shattered seasons lay, and the bitter smell of burning was on you like a disease. In our cancer of passion you said, death is a midnight runner. The sky had come crashing down like the news of an intimate suicide. We picked up the shards and formed them into shapes of stars that wore like an antique wedding dress. The echoes of the past broke the hearts of the unborn as the ferris wheel silently slowed to a stop. The few insects skittered away in hopes of a better pastime, I kissed you at the apex of the maelstrom, and asked if you would accompany me in a quick fall. But you made me realize that my ticket wasn't good for two, I rode alone. You said, the cinders are falling like snow. There is poetry in despair, and we sang with unrivaled beauty, bitter elegies of savagery and eloquence of blue and grey. Strange, we ran down desperate streets and carved our names in the flesh of the city. The sun has stagnated somewhere beyond the rim of the horizon, and darkness is a mystery of curves and lines. But still, we lay under the emptiness and drifted slowly outward. And somewhere in the wilderness, we found salvation scratched into the earth like a message. I cannot leave here, I cannot stay. Forever haunted, more than afraid. Asphyxiate on words I would say, I'm drawn to a blackened sky as I turn blue, there are no flowers, no, not this time. There'll be no angels gracing the lines, just these stark words I find. I'd show a smile but I'm too weak, I'd share with you, could I only speak. Just how much this hurts me. I cannot stay here, I cannot leave. Just like all I loved, I'm make believe. Imagined heart, I disappear. Seems no one will appear here and make me real. There are no flowers, no, not this time. There'll be no angels, gracing the lines. Just these stark words I find, I'd show a smile but I'm too weak. I'd share with you, could I only speak. Just how much this hurts me, I'd tell you how it haunts me. I'd tell you how it haunts me (Cuts through my day and sinks into my dreams) I'd tell you how it haunts me. (Cuts through my day and sinks into my dreams) You don't care that it haunts me, there are no flowers, no, not this time. There'll be no angels gracing the lines, just these stark words I find. I'd show a smile but I'm too weak, I'd share with you, could I only speak. Just how much this hurts me, just how much this hurts me, just how much you. 

Now The World

Summer I painted, a scene, that lit the stars for me. Said I can erase it for you dear. That summer created, those words, that came to life in three. They were denied by you, summer I laid down, below, the glitter adorned night. And silently sparkled, my own way. Summer I laid down, by you, and shared my frail light. You gave the dark to me, (You gave the dark to me) I looked inside, (I) To find, (wanted) The one I sent away. (This excoriation) I nearly froze, when I stepped inside, (I) To find, (Thrive on) The flowers turned to Grey. (This self mutilation) I closed my eyes, and kissed them one last time. Oh. Summer a morning, so pale, alone when they found me. As I remained sleeping, I heard them say. This summer created a boy, of abject misery. He was designed by you. (He was designed by you) I looked inside, (I) to find, (wanted) The one I sent away. (This excoriation) I nearly froze, when I stepped inside, to find, (Thrive on) The flowers turned to Grey. (This self mutilation) I closed my eyes, and kissed them. So like a lost child, I will hide. (Now the world) And like a lost lie, I will find. (Now the world) Find a way to return to the ones, who made me. Cover your eyes and we'll die together, will you cry for me. Will you cry for me, or will you cry with me? Will you cry for me, will you cry for me. Or will you cry with me? Will you cry for me, (I've been a lonely one) Will you cry for me, (I've had this whole world) Or will you die with me? (Drained from me) Will you cry for me, (Am I the only one) Will you cry for me, (I've had this world) Or will you die with me? (Drained from me, drained from me) Summer I painted, a scene, that lit the stars for me. Said I can erase it for you dear. 

100 Words (From Sing The Sorrow Sessions 2003)

This is the final night boys, we are cracks in diamond walls. I tried to illuminate but the shadows kill, I'm overshadowed. See how I blend in with nothing? Now beautiful boys, let's destroy. We'll shine as the Lucite breaks and falls, raise the new glitter God with the golden tears. The tears that swallow, a smile that's touched so warms nothing. Yesterday I burnt the sky, looked to the ground and wrapped it around me. Still today I have so much to burn, yesterday I longed to die. Fell to the ground and the ground caught me, now today I question why I fell, I fell. Deities fell to decoys, tainting what's pure, let's cleanse them all. Infinite life reclaimed, as the shadows kill. They're overshadowed. We'll burn as they fade into nothing, yesterday I burnt the sky. Looked to the ground and wrapped it around me, still today I have so much to burn. Yesterday I longed to die, fell to the ground and the ground caught me. Now today I question why I fell, so what can help me to understand, somehow. Why is always pains me to breathe? Pains me to breathe, we're no longer confined. Because yesterday, I burnt the sky. We're no longer confined, because yesterday I, I burnt the sky, oh. Yesterday I burnt the sky, looked to the ground and wrapped it around me. Still today I have so much to burn, to burn, to burn. Yesterday I longed to die, fell to the ground and the ground caught me. Now today I question why I fell, we're no longer confined. Because yesterday I, I burnt the sky, I fell. Because yesterday I.

Reiver's Music

I gave up fighting, I've come to see these halos. Am I now worse off (oh-whoa) For this one night? All come enchanted, welcomed by the halos. All the while we know, those enamored never miss us. Because we are now in dying days, hear nothing and see no one. All now in dying days, nothing is all we own. I've taken to speaking words that only they know, how soon I did see (oh-whoa) All is unseen. I gave up trying, I've come to be these halos. Welcome to our show, those enamored who won't miss us. Because we are now in dying days, hear nothing and see no one. All now in dying days, nothing is all we own. All now in dying days, hear nothing and see no one. All now in dying days, no one is who we know. With only echoes proving that I'm here, with all the wraiths, through all these years. And I have, I have no desire to leave. (here now) With only echoes proving that I'm here, (speak to me) With all the wraiths, through all these years. ( I don't want) And I have, I have no desire to leave. Because we are now in dying days, hear nothing and see no one. All now in dying days, nothing is all we own. All now in dying days, hear nothing and see no one. No one is who we know. 

Rabbits Are Roadkill On Rt.37

What once did exist, now is meaningless. And doesn't it seem funny, how soon you did forget? All the words have now lost their weight, but I remember, I remember. Desperation, devastation. All I truly know (All that I know) Is isolation, self-damnation. All light that I'd own was shed and worthless now. What I knew was wrong, one who lived is gone. Guess it was just an echo when you would sing my song. (Would sing my song) All notes you'd forgotten now, you left abandoned, I remember. Desperation, devastation. All I truly know. (All I know) Is isolation, self-damnation. All light that I'd own was shed and worthless now. I can hate myself more, more than anyone. Will you join me? I know that this tortures me, have I created the suffering? Show me or do you happily cut further in? To sever what's left inside that binds me. Now all I feel is desperation, devastation. All I truly know. (All that I know) Is isolation, self-damnation. All light that I'd own was shed and worthless now. Desperation, devastation. All I truly know. (All that I know) Is isolation, self-damnation. All light that I'd own was shed and worthless, worthless now. 

Synesthesia

Heartbreak incarnate, I'm nothing if not your memories. Heartbreaks, please let me be. Your joy and your pain. Someday I will be, I'll be those common words spoken uniquely. Because I may, will forever be. Floating as you feel. Please let me haunt as scent on your pillow, letters of past all tear stained and wrinkled. Please let me haunt as scent on your pillow, letters of past all tear stained and wrinkled. Just say, say you will follow me. Follow me, invite me to your memory. Just sing, sing again follow me. Follow me, that long forgotten song. Heartbreak incarnate, I'm nothing if not your memories. Heartbreak, please let me be. Your joy and your pain. Someday I will be. I'll be that waking warmth from a fading dream, because I will, I may at best. Float as you feel. Please let me haunt as scent on your pillow, letters of past look distant and wrinkled. Please let me haunt as scent on your pillow, letters of past look distant and wrinkled. Just say, say you will follow me. Follow me, invite me to your memory. Just sing, sing again follow me. Follow me, that long forgotten song. Let me be all the words, let me be all the words, let me be all the words, let me be all the words. Let me be all the words echoing comfort, let me be al the words that you'd unsay. Let me be all the words echoing comfort, comfort, comfort, comfort. Let me be all the words that you'd unsay, unsay, unsay, unsay. Let me be all the words echoing comfort, let me be all the words that you'd unsay. Let me be all the words echoing comfort, comfort, comfort, comfort, comfort. Let me be all the words that you'd unsay, unsay, unsay, unsay, unsay, unsay. 

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