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  • 6:23 , "eath"? "ies"?

    Can please somebody explain that part to me? :( Thanks!

  • so the winners: the band called them and gave them....?

  • ow......i think my head might explode haha

  • Okay. So Sing The Sorrow is a theme album. It represents the circle of life.

  • I GOT IT FIGURED OUT!!

    The women was a hooker.

    Davey was writing a check, but he wanted it to look like he was writing in the booklet.

    Anyone?

  • wiat can someone please explain whats the point of this mystery and why its based off of STS

  • well if it is a cycle, and some people think that it begins with bleed black, why is it placed at the end of the video??? or i mean why is the connection to bleed black to wards the end? if someone could clarify something for me that would be great. AFI FTW!

  • fantastic theory. starting with Bleed Black makes a lot of sense. i do see 1 flaw which is the fact that the move starts with the words "Nothing From nowhere, I'm No One At All" and then goes into Bleed Black which doesnt explain the reincarnation. still this is close. i hope AFI NEVER reveal the truth to this album. its more fun to ponder the meaning of each song individualy, and this album as a whole. Sing The Sorrow is my favorite album ever btw, so i hope that i am able to make a theory

  • I have been a fan for years and thought nothing about the leaving songs being out of order. Fucking CRAZY.

  • @dontneedwingstofly i said the same thing when i heard about this...now i cant stop seeing 336 and i see afi in a knew way o.o

  • now i know why theres rabbits on the cover of decemberunderground...

  • Wait so.... the answer is 7.... witch means..... 777.... Witch means Davey isn't dead He's Perfect..... ALL THAT TIME WASTED!!! WE ALREADY KNOW HE'S PERFECT!

  • SCREW PAUL IS DEAD, DAVEY IS DEAD!!! XD JK JK

  • A lot of people point to Sing the Sorrow as the point where AFI ~sold out~, but I think it was without a doubt their intellectual peak. And because I know someone's gonna ask, I've been a fan since SYM&OYE.

  • he is a genius, they have it figured out, AFI does. When I watched the movie, before i knew it was a mystery, it made sense. It fits together so gracefully. It is an honor to live in the same era as this legend.

  • I went to all of this just to find out that the mystery was already solved in '06. The lucky few who solved it got these special passes for a concert or something.

    But this is why I love AFI...

  • Assuming that this theory is correct, the theme is reincarnation, and the album starts with "Bleed Black", I believe I've figured out another meaning for "336".

    Listen to 3:36 of Bleed Black. Right before it, "And I'll never be brought back to life, once again, I know" Then at 3:36, it's basically a return to the beginning of the song. Reincarnation.

  • This is probably just a great fictional story to go along with the concept of the album. I don't think it is linked to Decemberunderground at all, but I do think some of the writing on DU was self inspired through it. Then there's the five flowers mystery, which I think someone solved and got tickets to an AFI show. And the Dark Morning Conspirators mystery was just someone trying to write a novel inspired by AFI's lyrics

  • Hey, I'm gonna try and and put everything together from 336 to DU (and that includes the I Heard a Voice videos) then I want to put it all together and make a theory, that is, if there is one to make:). And see if I can explain it in a YouTube video, may I use your insight if I make a note of it in my credits? This would be just AWESOME 'cause your theory makes so much sense, and it's backed up with lots of evidence too, if I thank you in my credits (IF I make the video) may I use your info?:):)

  • Rabbits, the cover of the DU album now makes complete sense.

  • @sourpunchfan74 can you explain that to me haha

  • @arianafi Davey is a rabbit. Have you watched the video? Payed attention to it? LOL

  • @sourpunchfan74 lol i did i just didnt understand the rabbit part but cuz you said that davey is the rabbit i understand it now hahaha

  • ok,the clandestine mystery is linked to the five flowers mystery in december underground. during the directors cut of the love like winter video, there are 5 quick clips of the five flowers videos and the last clip is just 'ÞrírÞrírSjö' which is on the cover of "the leaving song pt. 2" it is also icelandic for "three three seven" which is on the clock at the end of clandestine.

  • OKay here's my theory: the rabbits symbolize Rabbits Are Roadkill, the clock = This Time imperfect, the board that says "Nothing from nowhere, I'm noone at all" = Miseria Cantere lyrics, white crysanthemum = The Great Disappointment reference, the dark liquid = Bleed Black, The breathing at the beginning of Bleed Black represents birth, screams at the end of Leaving Song Part II is death. STS represents the circle of lie. 7 = the 7th album, DecemberUnderground. Prelude 12/21 = longest day of the

  • year, The girl that kisses Davey represents Miss Murder, 333 is half of 666, which is when DU was released. The rabbits are on the DU album cover, when Adam drops the box, he ends up picking up a duplicate of the box. When Jade jumps into the bathtub filled with a dark liquid, it could represent blood. Or a lyrical reference, "drowning in sorrow". Everyone's time was 3:33 until the end, then it's 3:37. & if you listen to This Time Imperfect, Davey says, "The answer is seven." hope this helps :)

  • @ninjafacelex dude....how did you figure that out...thats genious

  • @solonaviavenger Thanks! :P I just watched it a LOT and studied it and I just sort of came up with this! I also took three pages of notes, lol.

  • @ninjafacelex Sing the Sorrow has always been my favorite CD of all time...and this just farthers why

  • @solonaviavenger It's a quite complex album if you think about it :)

  • How did you figure all that out?! 

  • I don't think it would be either of them because apparently th songs are in a jacked up order or something like that

  • I am gonna listen to sing the sorrow right now

  • That Is awesome

  • so...if the answer is seven, and if you do start from Miseria Cantare, then would Death of Seasons have the answer (cause its the seventh track)? Or if you start with Bleed Black, would This Celluloid Dream have the answer?...

  • THANK YOU@!@!!!!!!

  • jesus what if they just made up this out of nothing just to get people to laugh and really its just an album with a fantastic fictional story?

    anyway cool theory

  • This is all good and everything but at 3:22 in this video you put, and I quote - "Miseria Cantare" is Latin for "Sing the Sorrow" - only, 'Miseria Cantare' in Latin is actually 'Wretched Chant'

  • in the video clandestine the golden hearth in the window is of crash love?

  • I think the Clandestine mystery was to lead you to the release of DU and create a link between the two albums [like with the rabbit imagery]. AFI are absolutely brilliant.

  • Which AFI song is at the end? I've heard it before and I can't recall....???

  • That was really good...but is that it? it was soo good then it just stops... :( but good!!!

  • I was wondering why the leaving song were out of order. Now I understand

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  • could the woman be miss murder

  • i think that maybe in the other videos where there is a plant in a weird box like in this vid, it means that it was life, and they found new life when they were reincarnated

  • ok, so daves a rabbit . . . rabbits cant be reincarnated . . . 37 deeds to do before nirvana . . . is that the point of rabbits are roadkill on route 37?

  • @every1wasdancing Sure seems like it! Notice how it was written durin the Sts/DU era? I heard it was written around the sts era, so it makes sense since Rabbits are roadkill on rt 37 is about self damnation.. aka, not fulfilling those deeds

  • I may have been wrong it was either they didn't account for zero or we didn't But either way we are either 100 years too late or 100 years too early for the end of the world. So it's safe to say it won't happen in our lifetime or our great grandchildren's. But I guess the only real way to be sure is to wait it out. I'll decorate for xmas that year anyway and see what happens. Hope this helps ease some fears.

  • Ok I have been reading a lot on the whole end of the world theory with 2012. Ok here's the thing A friend of mine was big into this theory and mayan history. The calendar is wrong. They didn't account for the number zero. The beginning. We did so technically according to their calendar the end of the world happened a hundred years ago. I'm not saying this is the absolute end of the theory, but it does blow some major holes in their time line, no?

  • Rizzo is in the box

    /end discussion

  • lol i never thought of that!

  • :D

    (post too short)

  • does that mean the answer is decemberunderground? cuz thats their

    7th album

  • @tarheelphoenix the answer indeed is 7. Listen very carefully at the end of "This Time Imperfect" and you can barely hear "the answer is 7..."

  • I thought it said the answers here. Kewl

  • Wait lets think people. What is the main question were asking first? we can solve this.

  • I think davey is going to be reincarnated. Mabey because the answer is 7/God?

  • So has anyone offically figured this out yet? How long has it been going on for?

  • I think that whole mystery is over, like first line on Rabbits are Roadkill on Rt. 37

    "What did once exist, now is meaningless"

  • to annoy everyone..

    do you know the real devil's number is 616 not 666, apparently.. :)

    if there indeed is a devil, of course

  • really? i heard it was 999 o.0 buh

  • nope, 999 is the british emergency number :)

    so the police, but you can class them as devils if you like :)

  • Maybe opening the box released a haven for the cold and alone. Decemberunderground might have been in the box.

  • @MolkoxLewd agreed.

  • this makes sense...

  • That's awesome.

    How long have you been working on all that?

  • I think StS has three levels of interpretation.

    1) Metaphysical:Spiritual death paralleled with the final-reincarnation theory. Miseria = one everything = misery (depression)

    2) Dantean: Inferno + StS share structure and motifs.

    3) Ultimately: About depression. The character's misery goes through very repetitious cycles that end in spiritual death. If you've had depression, you might agree that it seems like the same shit keeps happening over and over again. Spanish in Leaving Song Pt. II.

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  • i think the secret to nirvana is in the box

  • it looked like a ight came out of the box

  • dudes no one has solved this shit, this video was meant to make people wonder, you all got to stop going fucking mental over this video seriously.

  • Fuck off ok this is a huge deal to us in the DF so shut up ok

  • oh yeah people ,jsyk at the beginning of the whole love like winter video, this thing flashes across the screen-it says prir prir jor i think which is icelandic for 337--well, i hope that helps! ( :

  • I know this is video is a little...creepy.. but you people are getting way too caught up in it--i think that the guys made it just to annoy people--yeah, also jsyk, the fact that decemberunderground was released 6/6/06 was purely an accident (davey said so anyway)

  • Davey also said that 336 wasn't important... BUT IT WAS!!! I realized 666 when i bought it at midnight and yeah its on purpose this all makes sense

  • wow... it's great.. i love sing the sorrow, and now maybe i'll put a lot more attention,.. it reminds me about all the "paul is dead" shit that goes around the beatles albums... this is creepy but damn interesting

  • at the moment 3:36 ... what do you mean with "Transference"?

    plz somebosy tell me!!!

  • transferance is a song written by AFI

  • convenient timing ;)

  • hhmmm

  • wow i never really thought about Sing The Sorrow like that.

    You learn something new every day.

  • I spent a whole night with a friend trying to solve this and we came up with a pretty neat conclusion IMO.

    But I still think there's something really big behind clandestine, something that none of us has ever thought about...

  • Crazy :b

  • Wow.... Wow... How long did you have to sit down and think to come up with that?

  • the part "I'm 111 less than perfection." .. 777 - 111 = 666.. Decemberunderground came out on 6/6/06 .. so.. ??

  • AHA!

    i believe that DU and StS mysteries are related....somehow.

  • you said the december underground and sing the sorrow mysteries are related but the december underground mystery was eventualy solved... this one wasnt =/

  • My vote, is that AFI created all this to be completely pointless, and they did it just to drive people insane!

  • ugh, these afi mysteries have made me fucking mental! but its all very exciting and interesting, so i cant help but participate...

  • remember when they wrote songs about cereal and wanting to get a sex change so he could play on the girls bowling team.

  • mah rawfullcoptor goes schwashschwashschwash

  • @NicVicious13

    Yeah! ! ! wasn't that on the answer that and stay fashionable. and very proud of you albums.

  • alright so can anyone explain to me what this video is really about? is the mystery solved? and is there really a mystery behind this?

  • @amr7861 no one knows

  • this is amazing.

  • This clip gives me the heebie jeebies but I still haven't figured it out. =/

  • For the tracklisting, I get what your saying, but then why is the whole song title Miseria Cantare (the beginning)? I think it's cool that people care this much about this subject and as he clearly stated on the info this is a theory by afi fans, not just him.

  • because isnt it ment to be the beggining ie:rebirth kinda thing?

  • ALSO!!! SU1C1DEb0mber1234, when you got 12/21... well, if your an AFI fan, you'd know :) Prelude 12/21, the longest day, its all to do with the love like winter scene, I think... but this was made before that... strange :/

  • its a freaking fire.. ya know "a fire inside" what AFI stands for.

  • youve got way to much time on your hands.

  • I know a perfectly great theory.

    It's just too long to post here xD

    I'll email it to anyone. :)

  • what's your theory, i don't care how long it is, i just love afi, and this is one of the biggest mysteries they have (if it really is 1)

  • I think you all are putting waaaay too much time and thought into this. Maybe AFI just did this clever little thing for themselves...What relevance does any of this have?....

  • who says it has to start at bleed black? keeping in mind the whole reincarnation theme and the song before it meaning death, couldnt the breathing idicate 're-birth' rather than 'birth'?

  • Maybe you should all take a listen to the Blaqk Audio lyrics and you might find that it was all a big hoax and davey doesn't want you to find out there is no actual secret. Just listen to the lyrics of The Love Letter. Its not a love letter. Its actually a letter to his fans. Telling them that he is a human. Humans are allowed to have secrets. Just love them for the music and because they are good people. Stop stalking them ok. xxoo

  • Bwahhaaa...i think you got all that info from me...coz it sounds exactly like what I posted!

  • *edit*

    & Clandestine may never actually be figured out AFI is very complex...

  • doesnt Miseria Cantare mean Wretched Chant though? Thats what Ive heard, but this did help me alot.

    So thanx

  • Roughly translated, it's "Sing the Sorrow"

    Literally, it's "To Sing the Misery"...

  • Wanna know the most logical reason behind why the "Leaving Songs" are out of order? Because that is the way that the record label & producer felt the album flowed best, musically. Look as far into it as you want, but the fact of the matter is, it was AFI's first major label release, which means they probably had very little control over matters such as that.

  • then surely the label/producer could change the names so it would be 1 then 2 i mean who would know?

  • actually,the album is kind of a rock opera type thing,if you listen to the last song and go up,that's what the label had said and afi as well

  • this doesn't explain it, it just ties all this stuff together

  • If that was the date when Davey's dad died then that'd mean Davey is 63. Which he isn't. Obviously.

  • this is crazy lol

  • hey in one of the frames theres a plant where the box is suppost to be. i noticed it in the jades audio version.

  • did anyone notice the at the beginging the sun was facing where he was running and where he was running from?idk just throwing it out in the open

  • wow... this is odd. you're a freaking genius. do you do this all the time? if so TEACH ME TO DO IT TOO!!!! you are smart!

  • in the song "synesthesia" (a b-side to sts) a reference to old worn pages is made.

  • on the ep 336, which I have, are the words "nothing from nowhere" and on the other side is "i'm noone at all"

    weird?

  • on the sts song booklet, at the end, there's a small drawing and next to it are the words "rabbits are roadkill" so i'd have to say that du and sts were planned release dates.

  • notice on how the STS album the leaving song pt 2 comes 1st in the order of how the album puts it and the very last song at the very end has the same beat as the 1st song in the cd the. its a complete circle

  • omg 3+3+7=13

  • OMG black rabbits mean death too, and prelude 12/21 is the 1st song! 12/21 december underground december 12, 2012 =12/21/12

  • arr.. don't start with the "end of the world" theories now... im afraid of it enough!

  • lol sry

  • And another thing about DU.When u look @ the background of the cover u see trees in winter,AKA december.When u turn it around the trees look like roots AKA underground,december-undergrou­nd, 777-111=666 which is DU's release date.Mayb and only mayb they planned DU along with STS, in the vid of the leaving song pt2 there is a backgroud of trees in winter.

  • Y r the rabbits forming a circle and not a tringle considering there r three? bc circles represent "the cycle of life". My only q now is, y r the rabbit black?

    2 b continued on next comment lol...

  • Well now the DU cover makes sense.Y rabbits? bc rabbits cannot b reincarnated AND davey is a rabbit...so does this mean that the mystery mainly focuses on davey? Y are there 3 rabbits? it could either mean as u said divine perfection, daveys life path #, or each rabbit could rpresent birth,death and rebirth. will b continued on next comment lol...

  • But in an Interview, when they asked "why rabbits" he replyed;"Why not?" Maybe he was trying to cover something up?

  • I think you're reading a little too deep into things. The order of the Leaving Songs really could have nothing to do with anything. For example, Black Flag's album, Damaged, features the song "Damaged II" before "Damaged I".

  • The falling leaves may also represent the song death of seasons. the water on the back is actually part of the black sails cover!

  • and look at the december under ground album, underneath the lyrics there is creative poetry.

  • and in one of the songs on crash love,they use some of that poetry

  • (sadley i dont have sing the sorrow) i couldnt help to read.. "It flashes the clock" In one of there posters its a room with dead vines spread out across the walls, Theres a clock, and a rose lying on the tabel.. which represents the 5 flowers.

  • holy shit man

  • I have a thing about the Sing The Sorrow album, specifically two songs. There's I think, two mentions of Amaranths and one of chrysanthemums.

    Amaranth: An imaginary flower that never fades.

    And Chrysanthemum: Cheerfulness, optimism, rest, truth.

  • I also didn't know the thing about the Rabbit sign. I'm a Rabbit, too.

  • Wabbit! I am a dog!

    AFI seems to do this stuff a lot. I heard another one about DecemberUnderground being about the end of the world. Its really long but if you wanna hear it message me.

  • plz can u tell me

  • Oh yeah! I read that a few weeks ago. Odd.

  • i agree 12/21 is the date the world ends 12/21/12

  • where's the proof, and don't say the mayan calendar.

    that's thousands of years old.

    if you use the mayan calendar, then you have to believe every other religious theory of the end of the earth.

    and others say otherwise.

  • actually most relgions say 2012 is going to end. i think those relegions that said said 2012 is the end originated from the same place. i dont beleive any of the theories im just saying

  • The Mayan calendar ends 12/21/2012

  • 21st of December, longest day.

  • Could you tell me? I love DecemberUnderground, and I'd like to hear more :)

  • that's interesting, about the albums. I'm not hugely into AFI, so I didn't know anything about that. I was looking at the short film on its own, which is actually fairly strong and highly interpretive piece, even without the references to the albums. It was kind of David Lynch-ish. Anyway, without looking to the albums for background information, I was able to (sort of)come up with my own interpretation. But this interpretation is cool, too.

  • wow that was BRILLIANT!

    777-111=666

    it could refer to decemberundergrounds release date ...MAYBE

  • I've heard a theory that Sing the Sorrow is a concept album of the death of a man. Makes senses now after watching this video. Some say Decemberunderground is also a concept album about the love life of a man. The same character referred to in Sing the Sorrow.

  • HAhaHAAHAH 336 was the cd release date you IDIOTS!!!!!!! thats all it means.... every clue in the film were for title songs that were gonna be on sing the sorrow!!!!

  • @adamcyr13 wasnt the release date for STS march 11 2003 ??? where are u getting 336 date?

  • This is amazing. Clandestine always completely confused me, but I think you guys are on to something.

  • Wow...whoever did up this theory REALLY worked for it...

  • Music kinda freaks me out, I cant watch this alone for some reason :P

  • well at 2:33 it says "they said 336 wasnt really important. it was just what comes before" what came before the 336 ep? was it the art of drowning or an ep? maybe something in those albums/eps could like this video, 336 and sing the sorrow together

  • It was The Days of the Phoenix EP. I don't think ther's anything there that has to do with Clandestine though, unless I missed something

  • Amazing.

  • I think the reason you don't see anything inside the box is because there's nothing there.If there is nothing from nowhere techincally the box would be empty.

  • oh I'm slow I just found out that 3 X 37= 111

    and 111-777=666

    imperfection. and 777 is perfection

    "I'm 111 less than perfection."

  • decemberunderground was released 6/6/06 and the bunnies on the cover are around in a circle the circle symbolizes reincarnation but what about the bunnies they cant reincarnate ?

  • thats the point. they CANT reincarnate. rabbits are on their last life on this earth. the black rabbit symbolizes death and the circle symbolizes the reincarnation cycle. once born in the year of the rabbit your cycle is broken. once you die your dead forever.

    what i cant understand is that WHITE is the color of death. (chrysanthemums of white.)

  • well this makes a lot of sense but i always keep asking myself: what is the final and real reward for all of this?

    Because I think all the hours of thinking(ours and the fans)must lead to something TANGIBLE not just a bunch of numerology and metaphore theories. Something like a secret or things afi can't say out loud in the public spot and that they wanted their fans to know dont u think?

    Plz think about it and hit me back if you think of something.

  • by the way, what does tangible mean?

  • something real, something that you can touch. What I mean its that the final mystery result should be something real and mm... dik something that relates to us or them dont u think?

  • Davey is asking if you believe in god because (I know this may sound odd) this whole thing is a questioning of your beliefs. WE (friend and I) spent a whole night researching and REALLY thinking... and I THINK we got it. What Davey is trying to tell us has changed my whole perception on LIFE. I would tell you but.... i don't think its possible with this puny computer text. Perfection is imperfection and imperfection is perfection. Nothing.....Everything.

  • what?? could you explain it to me plz??? it sounds really interesting.Message me

    despite i have my theory im still so obssesed abut this.