A.F.I. Album

Love your hate.
Your faith 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 one at all.
Radiate. Recongnize one slient call
as we all form one dark flame.
Incinerate.

Nothing from nowhere, I'm no one at all.
Radiate. Recongnize one slient call
as we all form one dark flame.
As we all form one dark flame.
... one dark flame.

Love your hate.
Your faith lost.
You are now one of us.

Love your hate.
Your faith lost.
You are now one
One of us

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 aquí
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 screaming ecstasy
So what befalls the flawless
Look what I've built
It shines so beautifully
Now watch as it destroys me

Y regreso
Aquí 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 left it all behind
And never said goodbye
I left it all behind
And never said goodbye
I left it all behind
And never said goodbye
I left it all to die

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

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, I cannot find reflection in these days.

(chorus)
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 and elevate me
Like water flowing into lungs, im flowing through these days.
As morphine cuts through deadened veins
Im numbing in these days.

(chorus)

I know what died that night.
It can never be brought back to life once again,
I know, I know.(repeat)

I know I died that night, and I'll never be brought back to life.
Once again, I know(repeat)

(chorus)

I...I came here by day
But I left here in darkness
And found you, found you on the way
And 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
As your 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 your longing to sing
So I...I will paint you in sliver
I will wrap you in cold
I will lift up your voice as...I sink.

Your sins into me
Oh my beautiful one now
Your sins into me
As your 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 fall asleep for you
(Cold in life's throws)
I only ask you turn away
Cold in life's throws
I fall asleep for you
Cold in life's throw
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
As your 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
As your 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

Will you join me in this dance
This dance with misery?
Cradled in imposs-, impossibility
Swooning, I am swept away
Swept off my feet and
With step-by-step
We take the lead
As drop-by-drop we start to bleed.

(Chorus)
Oh we dance in misery
And we dance on
And we dance on

Oh we dance in misery
All 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 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 I separate,
While breath-by-breath I suffocate.

Oh we dance in misery
And we dance on
And we dance on

Oh we dance in misery
All 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 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 in this horrid romance.

I swear
Oh we dance in misery
And we dance on
And we dance on

Oh we dance in misery
All 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 misery
We’re swept to shadows
(X2)

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 lead me to this place where I belong
with all erased
what follows

All insects sing tonight
the coldest sound
I'll 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 has lead 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 lead me to this place where I belong,
with all erased.

what follows
will swallow whole
what follows
will swallow whole

Of late, it's harder just to go outside
To leave this deadspace 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
Posthuman extinction excels unrecognized
Feeling surrounded, so bored with mortality, I decay
All of this hatred is fucking real, turn it on... yeah

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

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 fucking real
And I hope to shade the world as stars go out and I disintegrate

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.
I always wanted to believe,
I never, never wanted this.
But from the start I’d been decieved.
I never, never wanted this.

Inside a crumbling effigy,
But you promised me.
So dies all innocence.
But you promised me.

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.

Raise high monolithic statues so fragile as they fall
I am ever enthralled
Gaze lie and smirk time
Your arrogance will suit you well
'Til fashion is dispelled

As waves of plactic fame go out of fashion
Your going out, going out forever unknown
These waves of perfect flame go out of fashion
Your going down, going down forever unknown.
Unknown

From above a rain of ashes descends.
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 nothings 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
Your going out, going out forever unknown
These waves of plastic fame go out of fashion
Your going down, going down forever unknown
Unknown

From above a rain of ashes descends.
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

Dancin in the rain of descending ash
Dancin on your grave
I'll see you
Dancin in the rain of descending ash
Dancin in your dust
I'll see you

I'd stop it, had you a heart.
I'd stop it, had you a heart.

From above a rain of ashes descends.
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

From above a rain of ashes descends.
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

Calling tears from deep inside,
oh your so exquisite
and in the mirror all midnight eyes
Oh if I could remain but its 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 Ive heard whispers
On a freezing note I resonate

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
Twist twisting me

You land as lightly as the new snow, cinematic
On to the melting boy and melt away
You light as gently, your so cinematic
Bathed in your radiance I melt

In the glitter in the dark sunk in to 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
Twist twisting me

You land as lightly as the new snow, cinematic
On to the melting boy and melt away
You light as gently, your so cinematic
Bathed in your radiance I melt

All the colours upon leaving, all will turn 2 grey (3x)

Walked away
Heard them say
Poisoned hearts will never change
Walked 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
Poisoned hearts will never change
Walked away
Again

All the cracks
They lead right to me and
All the cracks
Will crawl right through me
(repeat)

And I fell apart

As I
Walked away
Heard them say
Poisoned hearts will never change
Walked away
Again

Turned away
In disgrace
Felt the chill upon the face
Cooling from within

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 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't be found
I lay strewn across the floor, pieced up in sorrow
The pieces are lost, these 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 left me disowned
To this 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 left me disowned
To this nature, so unnatural
I remain alone

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 leaves.

It was empty on the edge of town
But we knew everyone floated along the bottom of the river.
So we walk through the waste
where the road curved into the sea.
And the 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 came 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 was stagnated somewhere beyond the rim of the horizon
and the darkness is a mystery of curves and lines.
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 line.
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've loved,
I'm make believe.
Imagine 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...Oh

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...