This always gave me the creeps. It always gave me the image of a couple who were wandering around after the end of the world, which they themselves may have caused.
This reminds me of my poetry days. I still have them once in a while, but they are few and far between. How nice it is to hear a simple flow of thought provoking, spoken art. Amongst so many other worthless media spewers, AFI continues to stand alone on their island of uniquely indescribable, and true, talent.
WoW!!! Hell Yeah!!! F-in Love A Fire Inside!!!! Listening to a lot of AFI, Hey You!, Blink-182, The Offspring, Weezer, Paramore, My Chemical Romance, and No Doubt
Hey You! is still pretty new, but they're waaay dope. Rock/Punk/Pop with a real cool edge. Plus they've got a cute chick singer ;-) ....you should check em out....
This poem.. is so deep. It's helped me through so much. I'm so honored to know the little boy who spoke the first third of the album, that Jade wrote... the boy is Jade's brother Gibson. I love Gibson very much. He's my best guy friend. <3
I wish I could tattoo this entire poem on my body, but its so long maybe I will just pick out the best verse or line. I just want aleast a part of it with me always :)
there are so many things that this song could be referenced with, which is the beauty of it, it makes you think and feel. take it in your own way, beauty, destruction, love, the beginning or the end. It's AFI.
1st time i heard this song was wen i 1st bought it i was talking to my mom and i heard this and i almost started crying in the car i heard that this poem was by jade could you tell me if i am wrong
@roseakitohavok Jade's brother did write it, his name is Gibson. He's actually one of my best friends. He's probably the biggest sweetheart you could ever meet.
@gizmoloe23 this poem is based off a poem called "death is a midnight runner" written by my brother matthew warren, who knows them. he posted th epoem online and they met with him to use it in this song. I have the original copy of the poem,
hey guys i think it would be awesome if you could take 2 minutes of your time and listen to the video on my channel outro(spoken poem) if you liked this because this inspired me to write it and in a way its sort of similair. thank you in advance!
This is my favorite song in the whole entire universe, It took hours for me to find this vid cuz I haven't listened to afi in years. I finally found it! This made my day.
I like how people complain about how they want the "old AFI" back... bt this song could be on Crash Love and it wouldn't sound out of place. They haven't changed as mush as people think. Yeah they stopped leaning on the punk rock style as much, but they did that YEARS ago. before even Sing The Sorrow came out.
every time i listen to this I want to cry and smile at the same time. AFI has such an amazing way of putting every emotion into their music and this just proves it. :) absolutely beautiful.
every time i listen to this I want to cry and smile at the same time. AFI has such an amazing way of putting every emotion into their music and this just proves it. :) absolutely beautiful.
I always saw it as referring the disaster at Chernobyl. The lines "The cinders are falling like snow" and "the bitter smell of burning was on you like a disease" are pretty self-explanatory then the line "The Ferris wheel silently slowed to a stop" could be reference to Chernobyl's Ferris wheel. "The echoes of the past broke the hearts of the unborn" could be a nod to the fact that the children of those who survived the often were mutated or had nuclear induced cancer. There are too many links.
@Jamekae Very interesting. I always thought it was about 911. "Our mouths filled with dust" could be an allusion to all the cases of asthma that survivors got from inhaling debris. It would also tie in with the lyrics about burning falling pillars in "Paper Airplanes". Your theory seems more accurate though.
@rcsi1 That's a good theory too. I always thought Paper Airplanes was about how society today place great importance on little things that are trivial in the grand scheme of things. People revere things like celebrities as gods and I think that is the meaning behind "raise high monolithic statues, so fragile as they fall, I am ever enthralled." the great glorification over nothing in particular. Also the lyric "as waves of plastic fame go out of fashion" kind of cements the theory for me.
what is the piano peice called. i know AFI didnt write that part, i used to have a music box my deceased jaja got me that played that tune but my ex got mad at me and smashed it.... i was heart broken & really wanna find that song again if any1 can help
everyone has thier own interpretation of what anything means, but if you listen to the words, its the perfect set up for the song which is played after this "which is This Time Imperfect"
You try to figure it out,you try to make sense of it,but no matter how hard you try,things don't go the way you planned.
You're heart the way it feels when you think you've found you're love,then you get crushed and you don't feel like trying anymore.You watch you're once living dream die infront of you,and you're heart sinks so deep,the pain is unbearable.
Am i lost?What's left of me?Now i shall never find a way back from this never ending path of darkness....
this poëm is one of the most beautiful things i've ever heard, it's like the total opposite of hearing miley cyrus bark haha. Davey havok is one of the best singers/songwriters in the whole universe.
i've had this poem memorized since before the CD was released. It's lovely. It's the truest, purest depths of despair...of losing that love that was the only reason you kept going. The end of the world.
this is true despair, I'm afraid. like the path some of us lead, the track we grind in the soil of our heartlands. love can and will kill. maybe the both of us. so I shall leave thee now, my love, I guess I told the truth, even then, biblical in it's sickness.
i was able to print this out and read at a poetry seminar...even though i was the only one to not get applause...i could read everyones face. apparently they have never seen such morbidity in a poem. i absolutely love it, and i am glad to pass this on to anyone.
you suck!!! even though DU was not that good it was ok, jade is better, umch better than before, and the new album has great guitar rifts, more structured and good solos, 2 songs, but good solos... my favorite album is Art of drowing, i know all the songs on guitar and bass... just amazing!!!
they are not my role model... i like power metal, kamelot, sonata arctica, strato... blablablabla
but they are good, I know they have gone more to the commercial but they keep doing good music...you have your likes i have mine... whatever...
metallica did get all shitty... guns n roses with axl rose got shitty... iron maiden did too!!! the same story for all the great bands... the exception... rolling stones.. and i dont like them XD
it is sad, but granted it is honest. it sounds like something that a soldier would recite to a fallen comrade. that, or a husband or wife would speak to his or her lover
For me this song sums up the world dying, a man going through his life viewing a dying planet earth. its beautifully sad as it is honest. STS for me is about a death of an idea, or life, I have found through this album lyrics have guided me telling one single word: CANCER, i think the album is about a man dying of cancer, "....NOw in our dying days" , also the song Carcinogen crush, Carcinogen= cancer causing agents, idk but thats how i interpret this beautiful album. This cd is the best ever
i kinda agree with you. clandestine the short film made by afi puts a lot of sts together. it is a cycle of a man's life. the sounds at the end of this time imperfect go right into miseria cantare. the whole album is a cycle. the art on the back is in a circle, as it is on the front. bleed black is truly the first track on the album; it symbolizes reincarnation, with breaths at the beginning that stand for life. this also puts the leaving songs in order
I always thought that STS was about a cycle of emotion: It starts in the epitome of despair, he starts getting numb from it, (bleed black) , finds love, the love starts going bad, as all good things eventually do and it is "This Time Imperfect". Then back to the epitome of despair. A cycle
Not that your interpretation is wrong. Its just my take on it and I'm so happy to some way or another relate ideas about it with other people since no one I know, even rabid AFI fans, dig deep into their music
I just considered this and the next part of the song all part of ...But Home Is Nowhere. The only 15-minute song worth listening to all the way through :D
Personally though, the only three songs I like from AFI's new albums are This Celluloid Dream, The Leaving Song (Not part II), and this one.
This is one of my favorite things off of Sing The Sorrow, and definitely my favorite 'hidden song'. This is amazingly beautiful and lyrically enthralling. I love it.
it's amazing how a band can change a person's life. i can say the same. AFI music and lyrics are so amazing, so beautiful and so deep. Greetings from Peru.
...oh my god... i have never in my life heard anything more beautiful... there are no words for this... i didn't even know this song existed, it's so... more than beautiful... i just want to cry now...
I think it's more about when you started listening to them.
Like myself, I started listening to them with Answer That And Stay Fashionable, when they used to be a pretty good punk band. Their newer stuff, I'm not really a fan of, but a few songs are pretty good.
Personally Black sails in the sunset will always be my favorite album. However this in my opinion was the only good track on sing the sorrow. Few people know this but the childs voice is Gibson Puget. Jade pugets little brother.
Because I was a member of the DF and I was a die hard AFI fan for years until their music started changing so drastically. I know alot of weird random facts about AFI I have even been to their home town and where AFI was formed. I met Adam Carson's (the drummer's) father and also saw the home he grew up in.
You don't really mean that, do you? (That *is* just a joke, right?) This is, by far, my favorite song by them. All fifteen minutes of it. More to love.
i think its about immortality..as a bunch of other songs on the record. how the "character" in the poem is living through the last night on earth and has lived for so long but cant die...and they know they never will.
Haha yeah I remember the first time I heard this I didn't even realize it was on there being that I was playing it on a portable CD player...
Whilst I think BSITS is their best album this album as a whole has such a unique dark feeling and this last trio of songs/words just sums it up so perfectly its like a masterpiece
All of the songs make sense, you just have to be able to understand them.
The beautiful thing about art is that it may be interpreted by anyone. Most art, however, is either directed at the artist themselves as a means of self reflection or aimed at a particular venue that would best understand the piece.
yeahhhh....sure... It just sounds like pretentious bullshit that people think is "omg this is sooo deep". Yeah a good chunk of their songs maybe have one liners that make sense. then the rest of the song will say some weird ass poetic shit that just sounds nice. "I saw an insect learn to fly; its form was scorned" yeah makes sense. give or take a few minutes it can deep. whatever floats your boat. regardless AFI is amazing.
I agree with you SikoNoriko. Beauty is truely in the eye of the beholder and art to one person may be trash to another. I think that everyone can appriciate the imagery painted by this song, whether you like it...understand it...or not. It is beautiful.
This song is amazing, I love the poetry they use in their songs. Not many bands can mix amazing musical talents and lyrical beauty. This band seems to integrate the two seamlessly...AFI is truly amazing.
Yes, so was I, I turned it up pretty loud becuase I wondered what it was. I LOVE this one, I think it's beautiful. STS in my oppionion is their best album.
and The Great Disappointment. that song is awesome. i think all of the stuff i've heard from a fire inside is awesome, powerfully kick ass, even beautiful in its own ways, haven't heard much of their new stuff though unfortunately. but from what i have heard, it isn't bad. just have to be in a mood for it.
Oh god... I heard this 6 years ago at a friend's house and it stole my soul this morning.
It's constantly romantic and sad, harsh and surreal, twisted and beautiful. It makes me want stand in that place and watch the world end.
I love the ending. It makes me feel cold inside, like the narrator and the other person in the poem just vanished, leaving nothing behind but the landscape and afterimages of their story.
i think it's davey as a child, then davey middle aged, and then davey as an old man.... this whole cd had a sort of a script, each song represents something and is a part of the whole idea of the album. It had to do with life and death...
I usually skipped this on the cd cuz i thought it was just the music ending the song,then when i put it on my ipod and fell asleep listening to it,i was almost asleep the i heard this. freaked me out!
The first time i heard this, i thought I was going crazy. Normally I skipped this, and went on to the next song after too much silence. One day, I was in the car on a road trip, half asleep, and finally all the silence played through, and then the children started talking. I was so confused, i had no idea where the sound was coming from
This always gave me the creeps. It always gave me the image of a couple who were wandering around after the end of the world, which they themselves may have caused.
Wh3nYour3Strang3 2 months ago
i remember when this instrumental was on the afireinside website whenever you would run your mouse over something.
alexinsc2008 2 months ago
This reminds me of my poetry days. I still have them once in a while, but they are few and far between. How nice it is to hear a simple flow of thought provoking, spoken art. Amongst so many other worthless media spewers, AFI continues to stand alone on their island of uniquely indescribable, and true, talent.
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WoW!!! Hell Yeah!!! F-in Love A Fire Inside!!!! Listening to a lot of AFI, Hey You!, Blink-182, The Offspring, Weezer, Paramore, My Chemical Romance, and No Doubt
Hey You! is still pretty new, but they're waaay dope. Rock/Punk/Pop with a real cool edge. Plus they've got a cute chick singer ;-) ....you should check em out....
search "hey you band taking over"
versagurlz88 4 months ago
This poem.. is so deep. It's helped me through so much. I'm so honored to know the little boy who spoke the first third of the album, that Jade wrote... the boy is Jade's brother Gibson. I love Gibson very much. He's my best guy friend. <3
gangstazombiekilla 6 months ago
why does this have to be so sad......... it makes me cry every time.....
sickdestiny19 8 months ago
ANOTHER HUGE EARTHQUAKE........GOD I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE WORLD TO END.........WE ALL DESERVE IT.
Icumin15seconds 10 months ago
@Icumin15seconds omg, thats so negative......
sickdestiny19 8 months ago
My fav is when Davey speaks.... *sigh*
lonelygloomyday 11 months ago
I wish I could tattoo this entire poem on my body, but its so long maybe I will just pick out the best verse or line. I just want aleast a part of it with me always :)
ohnobobo 1 year ago
soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo emo :)
MrPudster1 1 year ago
Great stuff. Love with when the strings come in and "This Time Imperfect" is a beautiful song to follow it.
Meteddica 1 year ago
Love this so much.
Words can't properly describe what I feel when I hear this.
I had Davey's part in my status the other day.
mydnyt 1 year ago
man it is so deppresing but i love the music
LonelinezzLover1 1 year ago
this poem gives me the heebie jeebies!
19already 1 year ago
I love how it starts out with a child and gets older. I'd never noticed that before.
answersInNemesis 1 year ago
there are so many things that this song could be referenced with, which is the beauty of it, it makes you think and feel. take it in your own way, beauty, destruction, love, the beginning or the end. It's AFI.
willsk84fud 1 year ago
1st time i heard this song was wen i 1st bought it i was talking to my mom and i heard this and i almost started crying in the car i heard that this poem was by jade could you tell me if i am wrong
gizmoloe23 1 year ago 4
@gizmoloe23 From my understanding, Davey wrote 2/3's, Jade wrote 1/3.
crovax3000 1 year ago 2
@gizmoloe23 i think the first part is read by jade's little bro, but i dont know who wrote it :/
roseakitohavok 1 year ago
@roseakitohavok Jade's brother did write it, his name is Gibson. He's actually one of my best friends. He's probably the biggest sweetheart you could ever meet.
gangstazombiekilla 6 months ago
@gizmoloe23 this poem is based off a poem called "death is a midnight runner" written by my brother matthew warren, who knows them. he posted th epoem online and they met with him to use it in this song. I have the original copy of the poem,
MegaTurtleMonkey 8 months ago
hey guys i think it would be awesome if you could take 2 minutes of your time and listen to the video on my channel outro(spoken poem) if you liked this because this inspired me to write it and in a way its sort of similair. thank you in advance!
againstallpractices 1 year ago
Do you know where we can download this song? :)
Marissa0114 1 year ago
@Marissa0114 its part of the song ...but home is nowhere from sing the sorrow
rockerchick465 1 year ago
@Marissa0114 its part of the song "...but home is nowhere" from Sing the Sorrow (:
xXForeverHauntedxX 1 year ago
This is my favorite song in the whole entire universe, It took hours for me to find this vid cuz I haven't listened to afi in years. I finally found it! This made my day.
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I like how people complain about how they want the "old AFI" back... bt this song could be on Crash Love and it wouldn't sound out of place. They haven't changed as mush as people think. Yeah they stopped leaning on the punk rock style as much, but they did that YEARS ago. before even Sing The Sorrow came out.
They still kick ass. GET OVER IT GUYS! :)
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every time i listen to this I want to cry and smile at the same time. AFI has such an amazing way of putting every emotion into their music and this just proves it. :) absolutely beautiful.
HIMisallilistento 1 year ago
every time i listen to this I want to cry and smile at the same time. AFI has such an amazing way of putting every emotion into their music and this just proves it. :) absolutely beautiful.
HIMisallilistento 1 year ago 3
I think it has some type of involvement with the apocalypse, also.
But, no matter the meaning, it's really beautiful. <3
xihatelovinghatersx 1 year ago
sounds abit like the music from the film jesse james .
Fatboylt2 1 year ago
kinda sounds like its about the apocalypse...probably isn't though.
FullmetalAlchemist39 1 year ago
I always saw it as referring the disaster at Chernobyl. The lines "The cinders are falling like snow" and "the bitter smell of burning was on you like a disease" are pretty self-explanatory then the line "The Ferris wheel silently slowed to a stop" could be reference to Chernobyl's Ferris wheel. "The echoes of the past broke the hearts of the unborn" could be a nod to the fact that the children of those who survived the often were mutated or had nuclear induced cancer. There are too many links.
Jamekae 1 year ago
yeah theyre really good at writing in historic events, like malleus malleficarum was about the witch trials and burnings and such.
TheFirstSmileyChick 1 year ago
@Jamekae Very interesting. I always thought it was about 911. "Our mouths filled with dust" could be an allusion to all the cases of asthma that survivors got from inhaling debris. It would also tie in with the lyrics about burning falling pillars in "Paper Airplanes". Your theory seems more accurate though.
rcsi1 1 year ago
@rcsi1 That's a good theory too. I always thought Paper Airplanes was about how society today place great importance on little things that are trivial in the grand scheme of things. People revere things like celebrities as gods and I think that is the meaning behind "raise high monolithic statues, so fragile as they fall, I am ever enthralled." the great glorification over nothing in particular. Also the lyric "as waves of plastic fame go out of fashion" kind of cements the theory for me.
Jamekae 1 year ago
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lolomgbrb117 1 year ago
do you care to elaborate?
jmfanclub 1 year ago
this is really deep, it made me want to crawl into a ball and cry...
razerdle 1 year ago
what is the piano peice called. i know AFI didnt write that part, i used to have a music box my deceased jaja got me that played that tune but my ex got mad at me and smashed it.... i was heart broken & really wanna find that song again if any1 can help
caspugui 1 year ago
i'm sorry about your jaja, i miss my babcia all the time
rebecca1918420 1 year ago
since when did this come out??
aznboy541 1 year ago
Sing The Sorrow Album
its a hidden track along with "this time imperfect" on that album
track 12 - ... but nowhere is home
when that song is done, theres like 40 seconds of nothing, then this plays followed by "this time imperfect"
amakusashiro 1 year ago
what do the words of this mean?
sunshineyellow15 1 year ago
everyone has thier own interpretation of what anything means, but if you listen to the words, its the perfect set up for the song which is played after this "which is This Time Imperfect"
amakusashiro 1 year ago
it's about a couple. the rest is up to your interpretation.
jmfanclub 1 year ago
not trippy this is great
seiyaryu88 1 year ago
acid hints in the lyrics anyone? TRIPPYYYYYYYYY:P
DKsAreFail 2 years ago
@DKsAreFail YOUR MOM IS TRIPPYYYYYYYYYY :P
TristanStarrGoesHere 1 year ago
Pandora für arme :D
Knochensplitter 2 years ago
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excuse me while I go gag myself
SuRihtanil 2 years ago
Life is like a mysterious poem.
You try to figure it out,you try to make sense of it,but no matter how hard you try,things don't go the way you planned.
You're heart the way it feels when you think you've found you're love,then you get crushed and you don't feel like trying anymore.You watch you're once living dream die infront of you,and you're heart sinks so deep,the pain is unbearable.
Am i lost?What's left of me?Now i shall never find a way back from this never ending path of darkness....
varinarox95 2 years ago 49
@varinarox95: Well said.
jds2ca 2 years ago
thanks
varinarox95 2 years ago
wow, thanks for that comment, really help me, I just need to read this,,,
surrealismo0muerte 2 years ago
@varinarox95 damn man thats some deep shit but is 100% true i know from experience i keep finding my place in that location of darkness
DEADINSIDE1991 3 months ago
@DEADINSIDE1991 Yeah..i cant believe i wrote that a year ago it sounded pretty good though :D it is true,too
varinarox95 3 months ago
@varinarox95 possibly a old comment but none the less a true one :)
DEADINSIDE1991 3 months ago
@DEADINSIDE1991 Yep and thank you :)
varinarox95 3 months ago
AFI is an amazing band,
have been, always will be.
They inspire everyday<3
jadethellama 2 years ago 6
Everything this band screams/sings/says is epic poetry. I LOVE IT. Inspires me.
crazyhavok13 2 years ago 9
this poëm is one of the most beautiful things i've ever heard, it's like the total opposite of hearing miley cyrus bark haha. Davey havok is one of the best singers/songwriters in the whole universe.
i've loved AFI through their punk period.
I love AFI now.
I will ALWAYS love AFI
<3
THUMBS UP FOR DAVEY HAVOK!
ttytim 2 years ago 59
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went to watch your video, saw the message at the first, thought to myself, what a paranoid little douche bag you are. One star for paranoia.
SaltyWatts 2 years ago
Before I had to put that annotation, I was deleting tons of spam for malware sites every day.
You should pull your head out of your ass and use it to think once in a while.
crovax3000 2 years ago 3
i love this poem. very dark. i'm trying to find a way to get this on my iPod, but i can't find a download link...
gethigherhere 2 years ago 5
It's a hidden track in ...But Home Is Nowhere, so if you download that it's towards the end. Or buy the album. Totally worth it.
MirandaMKJ 2 years ago 5
epic Tuck Everlasting reference, the ferris wheel
xantares13 2 years ago
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Eh. 100 words was only released on Crash Love?
I always thought this was called 100 words...??
mongoose100989 2 years ago
100 Words is completely different from this song.
crovax3000 2 years ago
i've had this poem memorized since before the CD was released. It's lovely. It's the truest, purest depths of despair...of losing that love that was the only reason you kept going. The end of the world.
xfallenxlostx 2 years ago 2
This is from sing the sorrow album
nancy111156 2 years ago
i really really love this to be honest at first it annoyed me but hell iv matured alot since then
AFIfreak4life1 2 years ago 3
Pft. This could never scare me.
Honestly, this just blows me away. I can't listen to it without getting Chills.
MissMurder454 2 years ago 4
i like fainting spell
zhenchung 2 years ago
this is true despair, I'm afraid. like the path some of us lead, the track we grind in the soil of our heartlands. love can and will kill. maybe the both of us. so I shall leave thee now, my love, I guess I told the truth, even then, biblical in it's sickness.
8bitmoloch 2 years ago 4
Could you please PM me the download link *-*?
I really love this song
knowyouwho 2 years ago
totally doesn't sound like AFI's normal stuff.
Which album is this off of?
NickDangernKevy 2 years ago
a hidden track on sing the sorrow
not on the uk version btw
Angel8795 2 years ago
What are u talking, this is in UK version, after "Now The World"
thebel89 2 years ago
Yeh i got confused coz its track order is different to the US version
Angel8795 2 years ago
Aha! I'm not crazy! Everyone kept saying it was after ...But Home is Nowhere, and mine's after Now the World! I am not alone, apparently
littleladzinski 2 years ago
i was able to print this out and read at a poetry seminar...even though i was the only one to not get applause...i could read everyones face. apparently they have never seen such morbidity in a poem. i absolutely love it, and i am glad to pass this on to anyone.
bmxerman98277 2 years ago 4
:| its really scary im so scard i got the chills 15 TIMES
bmxrox168 2 years ago
its a kind of dark haunting song sing the sorrow is kinda dark album like the art of drowning
williamControl1994 2 years ago
its a nice type of music, but scary to listen to at night....
laxedskater009 2 years ago
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I HATE AFI NOW!
but this is still my favorate album
EVER, this would have been the
PERFECT cd for them to stop on,
BUUTTTT NOOOOO they had
to make those other to gay ass cd
they would still be my favorate band if
they didnt
boypony91 2 years ago
you suck!!! even though DU was not that good it was ok, jade is better, umch better than before, and the new album has great guitar rifts, more structured and good solos, 2 songs, but good solos... my favorite album is Art of drowing, i know all the songs on guitar and bass... just amazing!!!
saedemoph 2 years ago 2
dont get mad at me because your role models got all shitty
im just telling u what happens
when good meets gay
boypony91 2 years ago
they are not my role model... i like power metal, kamelot, sonata arctica, strato... blablablabla
but they are good, I know they have gone more to the commercial but they keep doing good music...you have your likes i have mine... whatever...
metallica did get all shitty... guns n roses with axl rose got shitty... iron maiden did too!!! the same story for all the great bands... the exception... rolling stones.. and i dont like them XD
saedemoph 2 years ago
:) I love this
MzLexi07 2 years ago 2
it is sad, but granted it is honest. it sounds like something that a soldier would recite to a fallen comrade. that, or a husband or wife would speak to his or her lover
bmxerman98277 2 years ago 2
This is what true art is.
steviejustin 2 years ago 7
For me this song sums up the world dying, a man going through his life viewing a dying planet earth. its beautifully sad as it is honest. STS for me is about a death of an idea, or life, I have found through this album lyrics have guided me telling one single word: CANCER, i think the album is about a man dying of cancer, "....NOw in our dying days" , also the song Carcinogen crush, Carcinogen= cancer causing agents, idk but thats how i interpret this beautiful album. This cd is the best ever
AVA337 2 years ago 3
i kinda agree with you. clandestine the short film made by afi puts a lot of sts together. it is a cycle of a man's life. the sounds at the end of this time imperfect go right into miseria cantare. the whole album is a cycle. the art on the back is in a circle, as it is on the front. bleed black is truly the first track on the album; it symbolizes reincarnation, with breaths at the beginning that stand for life. this also puts the leaving songs in order
took a lot of thinking : )
spyhunter1223 2 years ago 2
I always thought that STS was about a cycle of emotion: It starts in the epitome of despair, he starts getting numb from it, (bleed black) , finds love, the love starts going bad, as all good things eventually do and it is "This Time Imperfect". Then back to the epitome of despair. A cycle
Not that your interpretation is wrong. Its just my take on it and I'm so happy to some way or another relate ideas about it with other people since no one I know, even rabid AFI fans, dig deep into their music
cocoabeenut 2 years ago 7
this is absolutely beautiful.
BlaqkWinter76 2 years ago 2
is this a poem or a text written by davey himself?!
LaurenHavok 2 years ago 2
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TimothyDonaghue 2 years ago
I fucking love this osng but i gotta say the start creep's me out
ferovader419 2 years ago 2
honestly this song would make anyone say "wow".
RonBurgundy904 2 years ago
I just considered this and the next part of the song all part of ...But Home Is Nowhere. The only 15-minute song worth listening to all the way through :D
Personally though, the only three songs I like from AFI's new albums are This Celluloid Dream, The Leaving Song (Not part II), and this one.
ProfessorDannyy 2 years ago
so ur like a slow rock kinda person?
skullkidlive 2 years ago 2
This is one of my favorite things off of Sing The Sorrow, and definitely my favorite 'hidden song'. This is amazingly beautiful and lyrically enthralling. I love it.
gothXqueenX08 2 years ago
AFI has changed my life and touched me deeply...this song is very beautiful yet very sad.
basketxcase666 2 years ago 6
it's amazing how a band can change a person's life. i can say the same. AFI music and lyrics are so amazing, so beautiful and so deep. Greetings from Peru.
dres555 2 years ago 4
fucking sweet
Grogutz 2 years ago
...oh my god... i have never in my life heard anything more beautiful... there are no words for this... i didn't even know this song existed, it's so... more than beautiful... i just want to cry now...
blackrosesforfriends 2 years ago 3
This is.........amazingly beautiful. I will forever be in love with this.
jessicamezeske 2 years ago 2
I JUST FUCKING LOVE THIS, I hope they come up with something like this in Crash Love.
JorgeAndresMendoza 2 years ago 2
This actually got me into poetry.
Llama360 2 years ago 4
Tune is haunting every time i hear it but i love it anyway. From the best album they ever made, Sir Jerry Finn RIP.
xzamina2087 2 years ago
this track is amazingly creepy! ^_^
19already 2 years ago
I know right. It has such passion in it and emotion and it's just so beautiful.
I think it's meant to young Davey then Davey now and then old Davey (When he is old?).
woahXgirl94 2 years ago
i love this, and honestly, how can you guys pick and choose their best work, fans dont do that! just Support all their work!
EllisonLindsay 2 years ago 2
I think it's more about when you started listening to them.
Like myself, I started listening to them with Answer That And Stay Fashionable, when they used to be a pretty good punk band. Their newer stuff, I'm not really a fan of, but a few songs are pretty good.
crovax3000 2 years ago
This song sounds so sad.
dangetbobby 2 years ago
Personally Black sails in the sunset will always be my favorite album. However this in my opinion was the only good track on sing the sorrow. Few people know this but the childs voice is Gibson Puget. Jade pugets little brother.
RebelBarbi 2 years ago 3
good info, how did you know that?
Terre2099 2 years ago
Because I was a member of the DF and I was a die hard AFI fan for years until their music started changing so drastically. I know alot of weird random facts about AFI I have even been to their home town and where AFI was formed. I met Adam Carson's (the drummer's) father and also saw the home he grew up in.
RebelBarbi 2 years ago
Good song.
crazyJBL 2 years ago
this is amazing there is no words to discribe this.
blacksnakeseye 2 years ago
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Not a bad song, I really prefer Miss Murder though for sure. Prob some of there best work.
REAVER87 2 years ago
no... no ...no..
The album sing the sorrow is the best..there new stuff is just disappointing.
crazyJBL 2 years ago
You don't really mean that, do you? (That *is* just a joke, right?) This is, by far, my favorite song by them. All fifteen minutes of it. More to love.
afibleedblaqk 2 years ago
wat does this song mean... please tell me im not poetic and it sond pretty and meaningfull.... help me out
FILERO1 2 years ago
i think its about immortality..as a bunch of other songs on the record. how the "character" in the poem is living through the last night on earth and has lived for so long but cant die...and they know they never will.
NotoriousFR 2 years ago
really powerful :)
kittycorpse696 2 years ago
fucking beautiful
xX666LUCIFER666Xx 2 years ago
i love this track
ManINaBAG 2 years ago
i dont get it
shinigamiryuk 2 years ago
just beautiful...
Xxfallenblaqkangel14 2 years ago
Beautiful beyond word <3
LithiumJasper 2 years ago
ooo i thought this was just an intro...this is right before this time imperfect.
dash5775 2 years ago
The track is pretty much three songs in one, there was ...but Home is Nowhere, first, then this, then This Time Imperfect.
Kind of cool, but annoying when you just feel like listening to one of the later two.
crovax3000 2 years ago
Haha yeah I remember the first time I heard this I didn't even realize it was on there being that I was playing it on a portable CD player...
Whilst I think BSITS is their best album this album as a whole has such a unique dark feeling and this last trio of songs/words just sums it up so perfectly its like a masterpiece
LAM3NTINGCORPS3 2 years ago
Same lol.
desurgeon 2 years ago
every word spoken hits on my heart in such a emotional way. this poem is so impressive.
sLePpInG 2 years ago 2
ooh! never heard this song, is beautiful and a little
hard ... I've come to the heart.
a kiss from madrid
danipeke93 2 years ago 3
this is one of the best bands of the all world
fechi01 2 years ago 6
AFI is one of the best bands ever. Nuff said.
jamokham 2 years ago 4
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scary fucking shit
rurounidean 2 years ago
how can i download this song..? i cant find it anywhere..i love it soo much..
pinkwhiterose204 2 years ago 2
It is on the album Sing The Sorrow as a hidden track.
You could likely download it from Limewire if you don't have the album, but don't quote me on that.
Pretty, isn't it?
SikoNoriko 2 years ago
No, not pretty..It's...idk...wonderful..
And no, it's not on Limewire. I tried it before. I tried finding it but I can't and it's bugging me so badly.
pinkwhiterose204 2 years ago
try looking for ...but home is nowhere. but with a huge size, like 15mb. the poem comes within it. and with this time imperfect.
thats how I found it =)
sLePpInG 2 years ago
ookay.... i cried!!!
that was so beautiful and so sad... who and what is he talking about?
that was the saddest thing i have eever heard
god theyre amazing!
DeathNoteAddiction 2 years ago 2
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well considering that AFI's songs no longer make any sense. It would be safe to assume this is one of them. lol.
xtigerxbombx 2 years ago
All of the songs make sense, you just have to be able to understand them.
The beautiful thing about art is that it may be interpreted by anyone. Most art, however, is either directed at the artist themselves as a means of self reflection or aimed at a particular venue that would best understand the piece.
SikoNoriko 2 years ago
yeahhhh....sure... It just sounds like pretentious bullshit that people think is "omg this is sooo deep". Yeah a good chunk of their songs maybe have one liners that make sense. then the rest of the song will say some weird ass poetic shit that just sounds nice. "I saw an insect learn to fly; its form was scorned" yeah makes sense. give or take a few minutes it can deep. whatever floats your boat. regardless AFI is amazing.
xtigerxbombx 2 years ago 2
I agree with you SikoNoriko. Beauty is truely in the eye of the beholder and art to one person may be trash to another. I think that everyone can appriciate the imagery painted by this song, whether you like it...understand it...or not. It is beautiful.
BrokenHearted6407 2 years ago
Any piece with the word elegy in it is awesome! I'd call this an elegy....
Gr8fulElegy 2 years ago 3
This song is amazing, I love the poetry they use in their songs. Not many bands can mix amazing musical talents and lyrical beauty. This band seems to integrate the two seamlessly...AFI is truly amazing.
grimjoker1 2 years ago 7
I love their older stuff
but this was a awesome album
DaddyThuggalo 2 years ago
what do you type in if you're downloading this?
JadeXShadows 2 years ago
the first i heard this song, i was mesmerized
GARBAGE197666 2 years ago
me too i didnt know wat was happenin?
partymonsterkid 2 years ago
Yes, so was I, I turned it up pretty loud becuase I wondered what it was. I LOVE this one, I think it's beautiful. STS in my oppionion is their best album.
tinxtinxiaoyu 2 years ago 7
The only song by this band I have heard and liked....
is good
remindes me of a bright eyes song
blackblackgrey 2 years ago
Also, I always get a shiver when that crackly voice says "I rode alone" at the end of the second verse.
whateveryoumonkeys 2 years ago
me too XD
JadeXShadows 2 years ago
This and Death of Seasons are the best reasons to listen to STS.
whateveryoumonkeys 2 years ago
and The Great Disappointment. that song is awesome. i think all of the stuff i've heard from a fire inside is awesome, powerfully kick ass, even beautiful in its own ways, haven't heard much of their new stuff though unfortunately. but from what i have heard, it isn't bad. just have to be in a mood for it.
jesse4peace 2 years ago
Yeah, you're right, TGD is pretty good. I quite like Synesthesia too (UK bonus track).
whateveryoumonkeys 2 years ago
amazing.
xXxXevanescenceXxXx 2 years ago 3
i love it!
it makes you feel cold inside.
JSkidd18 2 years ago 3
Oh god... I heard this 6 years ago at a friend's house and it stole my soul this morning.
It's constantly romantic and sad, harsh and surreal, twisted and beautiful. It makes me want stand in that place and watch the world end.
I love the ending. It makes me feel cold inside, like the narrator and the other person in the poem just vanished, leaving nothing behind but the landscape and afterimages of their story.
rayjinflo 2 years ago 7
Perfectly said Ray. A Fire Inside always leaves me in that state.
SikoNoriko 2 years ago 2
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rayjinflo 2 years ago
thank you so much for posting this. I've been looking everywhere.
starsinheaven215 2 years ago
i can hardly eve hear the words........and its not much of a song but im sure if i realli listened id be like....'woah....' but dont botherXP
HeAdBaNgEr3597 2 years ago
this is really beautiful
mariahxxkelleyxx 2 years ago 2
Damn, this is some deep stuff man XD Beautiful, pure poetry...
Ive listened to it five times, and Im still tingling
Hydeversiontwo 2 years ago
i think it's davey as a child, then davey middle aged, and then davey as an old man.... this whole cd had a sort of a script, each song represents something and is a part of the whole idea of the album. It had to do with life and death...
rosasola1 2 years ago 4
the words in this are sooo beautiful!! this song is amazing
mariahxxkelleyxx 2 years ago
I usually skipped this on the cd cuz i thought it was just the music ending the song,then when i put it on my ipod and fell asleep listening to it,i was almost asleep the i heard this. freaked me out!
imwiththevampires2 2 years ago 2
The first time i heard this, i thought I was going crazy. Normally I skipped this, and went on to the next song after too much silence. One day, I was in the car on a road trip, half asleep, and finally all the silence played through, and then the children started talking. I was so confused, i had no idea where the sound was coming from