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Songtitle: [words] Comment: {words} Repeats: (words #x) Spoken: -words- {In nearly all of AFI's songs the rest of the band sings quite a bit in between and sometimes during the parts where Davey is singing. I usually don't bother notating this unless it would be difficult or impossible for one person to sing the song straight through. When multiple columns are used (one for each singer) any time there are words in multiple columns it means that they are singing at the same time. Sometimes a different font is used to get things to line up right.} THE ART OF DROWNING
Initiation - The Lost Souls - The Nephilim - Ever and a Day - Sacrifice Theory - Of Greetings and Goodbyes - Smile - A Story at Three - The Days of the Phoenix - Catch a Hot One - Wester - 6 to 8 - The Despair Factor - Morningstar - Battled[Initiation] {no lyrics} [The Lost Souls] If you, can't stand, upon the water I will see you on the ocean floor. When you blink, do you only find, the misery between the lines? Then take my hand and walk with me. Come to me, your sanctuary, I'll gladly accept the gift that i've been granted. If you, feel fine, then give it just a little time I'm sure you'll contract my disease. See, what you've done, to me now, you've made me perfect. Look, what you've done, to me now. woah-oh If you, can't stand, upon the earth then I will see you on the other side. When you blink, do you only find, the misery weighs down your eyes? Then take my hand and sleep with me. What you've done, to me now, you've made me perfect. Look, what you've done, to me now. whoa-oh Take my hand, I'll be everything to you. Take my hand I'll take everything from you. I will, I'll seep, under, your skin. I will. I will, I'll hold, onto, your heart. I will. Look, what you've done, to me now, you've made me perfect. Look, what you've done, to me now. whoa-oh Look, what you've done, to me now, you've made me perfect. Look, what you've done, to me now. (What have you done?, x4) Now! [The Nephilim] Swing through sadness, tears of joy. Curse the sunlight, arsenic for the girls and boys. Drink the madness, smoke so coy. Smile injection, serum of a will destroyed, serum of a will, serum of a will destroyed! The seasons change, change without me. I remain, in shadows growing wings. The spirit song, still surrounds me, in refrain, in shadows growing wings. Swing through sadness, tears of joy. Curse the sunlight, arsenic for the girls and boys. Drink the madness, smoke so coy. Smile injection, serum of a will destroyed, serum of a will, serum of a will destroyed! The seasons change, change without me. I remain, in shadows growing wings. The spirit song, still surrounds me, in refrain, in shadows growing wings. {the woahs are by the rest of the band} like an angel with two broken wings, woah-oh-oh reach to the sky again. woah-ohh-oh like a devil, meant for better things, woah-oh-oh i will, find, my place, on high. The seasons change, change without me. I remain, in shadows growing wings. The spirit song, still surrounds me, in refrain, in shadows growing wings. [Ever and a Day] Lie in comfort, of sweet calamity, with nothing left to lose. Like in the darkness, I'm slowly drowned to sleep, with nothing left to lose. Woah-oh Three tears I've saved for you. I'd retrace the steps that led me here but nothing lives, behind me. So I lie in this field bathed in the light that loves me, with nothing left to lose. Three tears I've saved for you. Will you be my, be my beloved? Will you help, help me to get through? Will you be my, be my destruction? Will you help, help me to be through? (oh-oh oh-oh-oh 2x) (oh-oh-oh 4x) Will you be my, be my beloved? Will you help, help me to get through? Will you be my, be my destruction? Will you help? Three tears I've saved for you. [Sacrifice Theory] {Davey} {Rest of Band} woah, go! Hear one thousand screams. go! Hear one thousand voices. go! A solitary echo, oh-oh go! Feel one thousand pains, go! but one is receiving, go! a bloody invitation. oh-oh oh woah-oh Do you want to feel the warmth, to taste the life, oh-oh to taste the life flow-oh-oh? Do you want to taste the life, to taste the life, to taste the life flow? go! go! oh-oh-oh Feel one thousand lost, sinking into soft skin. Ingest rejuvenation. oh-oh-oh One to consume, one to renew, demanded invitation. Oh-oh Oh Woah-oh Do you want to feel the warmth, to taste the life, Oh-oh to taste the life flow-oh-oh? Do you want to taste the life, to taste the life, to taste the life flow? (I offer grace, I offer blood, I offer everything till, my! heart! is crystal clear. 2x) Let me taste the life flow! Woah-oh Do you want to feel the warmth, to taste the life, Oh-oh to taste the life flow-oh-oh? I want to taste the life, to taste the life, to taste the life flow! Go! Go! Woah, go! [Of Greetings and Goodbyes] Now ending discreetly, just like a hidden sin, as I go under, please tuck me in. {band:} Make me invisible. This hidden explosion, calls for a wandering cast with no direction. Enter all the monsters let us twist another fairy tale. Woah-oh-oh Woah-oh-oh Go kill the lights, we'll glow till morning comes {band:} till morning comes. Woah-oh-oh Woah-oh-oh I'll say goodnight, and bow to everyone. Then we go under. The beauties are sleeping, as fruit just rots away. Today go hungry. Let it begin. {band:} Make me invincible. There was a weeping, I carried down today a sigh worth keeping, deep within divinity. Let's start another secret show. Woah-oh-oh Woah-oh-oh Go kill the lights, we'll glow till morning comes {band:} till morning comes. woah-oh-oh woah-oh-oh I'll say goodnight, and bow to everyone. No need to worry it is just another monster. No need to fear here in the secret show. No need to worry I am just another monster. In you I'll see me in the secret show. Woah-oh-oh Woah-oh-oh Go kill the lights, we'll glow till morning comes {band:} till morning comes. Woah-oh-oh Woah-oh-oh I'll say goodnight, and bow to everyone. Woah-oh-oh Woah-oh-oh Go kill the lights, we'll glow till morning comes. Woah-oh-oh Woah-oh-oh I'll say goodnight and bow to everyone. [Smile] Overwhelmed with a deep repulsion, for sights seen so commonly, now I have come to be the walking enmity! Assimilate into a culture, of post morality, from what, I've seen I hate humanity! Rot with repulsion. I'll write the world a brand new song. Look upon your bleak creation, but is it truly me, that's going, to be the human blasphemy? I'll set the world on fire, and in burning light, I'll write my first love song, and I will feel warmth. Hide, your eyes in heaven, in the lies. Believe. Relieve. I'll end, the, world tonight! Overwhelmed with a deep repulsion, for sights seen so commonly, now I have come to be a walking enmity! For humanity, the human blasphemy, I'll end the world tonight! [A Story at Three] Again and again they blend into one. My father the morning pushes through the moonlight love. So what's sleep? Sleep? Sleep! Woah-oh-oh I'm tired, so tired, so tired, but it seems that there's someone here with me. We are the wakeful, wry, watchful. We're awaiting. Deathless ones We are the wakeful, wry, watchful. We're awaiting. Deathless ones A story at three with the shrillest of cries. My mind fights with the sparkles in the corner of my eyes. So what's sleep? Sleep? Sleep! Woah-oh-oh I'm tired, so tired, so tired, but it seems that there's someone here with me. We are the wakeful, wry, watchful. We're awaiting. Deathless ones We are the wakeful, wry, watchful. We're awaiting. Deathless ones We are the wakeful, wry, watchful. We're awaiting. {Davey at the same time: We are awake, wide awake, we are wakeful!} Deathless ones We are the wakeful, wry, watchful. We're awaiting. The deathless ones! {Lead 1} {Lead 2} {Band} I hear the morning choir, sing to me their elegy. I hear the morning choir, sing to me their elegy. Sing to I hear the me. morning choir So beautiful! sing to their me elegy. They sing, Sing to I hear the me. morning choir, -oh they sing to me- sing to their me elegy. req -ui I hear the morning choir -em! sing to me their elegy.We are the wakeful, wry, watchful. We're awaiting. Deathless ones We are the wakeful, wry, watchful. We're awaiting. Deathless ones We are the wakeful, wry, watchful. We're awaiting. {Davey at the same time: We are awake, wide awake, we are wakeful!} Deathless ones We are the wakeful, wry, watchful. We're awaiting. The deathless ones! [The Days of the Phoenix] I remember when, I was told a story of crushed velvet, candle wax, and dried up flowers. The figure on the bed, all dressed up in roses calling. Beckoning to sleep, offering a dream. The words were as mystical as, purring animals. The circle of rage, the ghosts on the stage appeared. The time was so tangible I'll, never let it go. Ghost stories handed down, reached secret tunnels below. No one could see me. Oh I fell into yesterday. Oh Our dreams seemed not far away. (I want to 3x) stay. Oh I fell into fantasy. The words were as mystical as, purring animals. The circle of rage, the ghosts on the stage appeared. The time was so tangible I'll, never let it go. Ghost stories handed down, reached secret tunnels below. No one could see me. Oh I fell into yesterday. Oh Our dreams seemed not far away. (I want to 3x) stay. Oh I fell into fantasy. -The girl on the wall always waited for me, and she was always smiling. The teenage death boys, the teenage death girls... and everyone was dancing. Nothing could touch us then, no one could change us then, and everyone was dancing. Nothing could hurt us then, no one could see us then, and everyone was dancing. Everyone was dancing.- No one could see me. Oh I fell into yesterday. Oh Our dreams seemed not far away. (I want to 3x) stay. Oh I fell into fantasy. (Our dreams seemed not far away. 3x) I fell into fantasy. [Catch a Hot One] Let's tap your heart so we can paint the walls and see if anybody likes the tone, or the pain. The hungry eyes waiting for your life flash; now they're gonna see it. Now they're gonna see it. Open your veins so we can make a pool and bathe and see if anyone complains, of the stain. Let's strip you down so we can see your old scars. Now you're gonna feel it. Now you're gonna feel it. Show me how to shine now. Have you turned, turned to dust? I saw an insect learn to fly. Have you ever seen the kingdom of the flys? {Davey at the same time:} Its form was scorned. Have you lost the sense of touch? I saw it stay in sovereignty. Have you ever turned to dust? Let's lift you up so we can see how fast you fall. We always thought that you could fly, now you'll crawl. The lack of loyalty you thought you once felt; now you're gonna feel it. Now you're gonna feel it. Show me how to shine now. Have you turned, turned to dust? I saw an insect learn to fly. Have you ever seen the kingdom of the flys? {Davey at the same time:} Its form was scorned. Have you lost the sense of touch? I saw it stay in sovereignty. Have you ever turned to dust? (Now show me, 3x) how to shine. ((Now show me how 3x) how to shine. 2x) Have you turned, turned to dust? I saw an insect learn to fly. Have you ever seen the kingdom of the flys? {Davey at the same time:} Its form was scorned. Have you lost the sense of touch? I saw it stay in sovereignty. Have you ever turned to dust? [Wester] I can feel you, waiting for me, when the sun, retreats to the hills and I, below the blanket of a burning sky, wrap myself within. Embraced by dead leaves as the rain leaves, trails of black down my face, and I, creep through the twilight to that hidden place, beyond the lonely. I'll meet you tonight, in the whispers when no one's around. Nothing can stop us now. Tonight, in the whispers where we won't be found. Nothing can stop us now. Oh I can feel you, dreaming of me and the time when our steps are retraced, and I creep through the twilight to that hidden place, beyond the lonely. I'll meet you tonight, in the whispers when no one's around. Nothing can stop us now. Tonight, in the whispers where we won't be found. Nothing can stop us now. Tonight, in the whispers when no one's around. Nothing can stop us now. Tonight, in the whispers where we won't be found. Nothing can stop us. Oh {Davey} {Band} I can feel you, dreaming of me. I can feel you dreaming. I can feel you, dreaming of me. Beneath a dream Beneath a dream One I can feel you, world away dreaming of me. We were I can feel you, just one world away. dreaming. In silent rapture I can feel you, let us stay. dreaming of me. One world away Lost in a dream Lost in a dreamOh Tonight, in the whispers when no one's around. Nothing can stop us now. Tonight, in the whispers where we won't be found. Nothing can stop us now. Tonight, in the whispers when no one's around. Nothing can stop us now. Tonight, in the whispers where we won't be found. Nothing can stop us. Oh [6 to 8] Six figures enter, they've come to destroy the world. They've called together, this storm almost every night. I awake in another place. A familiar voice with a stranger's face speaks, I awake in another place. more unheard words. What new friends will the day bring? Woah One for one thousand acquainted. Woah What new home will the night bring? Woah When it all comes down you just throw the bones. On the way in, I saw five hours of sleep. On the way in, but your fire makes it all worth while. On the way in, I wrote words for you to keep. On the way in What new friends will the day bring? Woah One for one thousand acquainted. Woah What new home will the night bring? Woah When it all comes down you just throw the bones. On the way in, I saw five hours of sleep, on the way in, but your fire makes it all worth while. On the way in, I wrote words for you to keep. On the way in, I saw myself. I lost myself along the way, and you were by me! On the way in, I saw five hours of sleep, on the way in, but your fire makes it all worth while. On the way in, I wrote words for you to keep. On the way in. [The Despair Factor] Along the path where the stream is talking, I breathe the mist and continue walking. The wood it whispers in a language of it's own. As a sigh escaped my lips, I feel the light caress of fingertips that steal away the breath and leave me on my {One} {Two} own. Own! Waiting by the stairs. Waiting, I de- Waiting, I despair. spair. Waiting by the -My whole life is a dark room, Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh! one big dark room.-Do I hear the hollow sound, footsteps resounding on this frozen ground or the familiar disappointment of the echoes of my {One} {Two} own? Own! Waiting by the stairs. Waiting, I de- Waiting by the stairs. spair. Waiting by the Waiting For redemption, by the for elation, stairs. for the time when I ascend. Waiting For the ecstasy, by the for the tragedy, stairs. for the point of my Waiting by the ascension. stairs.-Somehow I ended up here in between, where there is always the comfort, of knowing I'll never be seen,- when I fall! When I fall! I wait for just one touch, and I fall. (Weightless, endless, faithless I'll adore you. A single touch before I fade, painless let me pass through. 2x) [Morningstar] I saw a star beneath the stairs, glowing through the melting walls. Who will be the first to begin their fall? Or will we become one? Am I the star beneath the stairs? Am I a ghost upon the stage? Am I your anything? I saw a star beneath the stairs, glowing bright before descent, and in the morning there is nothing left, but what's inside of me. (Am I the star beneath the stairs? Am I a ghost upon the stage? Am I your anything? 2x) And I don't, want to, die tonight; Will you believe in me? And I don't, want to fall into the light. Will you wish upon? Will you walk upon me? I don't want to die tonight. Will you believe in me tonight? (Am I the star beneath the stairs? Am I a ghost upon the stage? Am I your anything? 2x) [Battled {hidden song at about 10:20}] I can't think and I can't speak. My mind is not my own. Feeling like my will is weak, cannot find the strength to go on. I've battled. I'm fucking battled man. I've battled. I've battled yeah. I've battled. I'm fucking battled man. I've battled. Yeah-oh! I can't think and I can't speak. My mind is not my own. Feeling like my will is weak, cannot find the strength to go on. I've battled. I'm fucking battled man. I've battled. I've battled yeah. I've battled. I'm fucking battled man. I've battled. Yeah-oh-oh! |