AFI - Spoken Word

*Note that this track is property of UMG.

We held hands on the last night on earth.
Our mouths filled with dust.
We kissed in the fields and under trees, screaming like dogs, bleeding dark into the leaves.
It was empty on the edge of the town, but we knew everyone floated along the bottom of the river.
So we walked through the waste where the road curved into the sea and 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 had come crashing down like the news of an intimate suicide.
We picked up the shards and formed them into shapes of stars that wore like an antique wedding dress.
The echoes of the past broke the hearts of the unborn, as the Ferris wheel silently slowed to a stop.
A few insects skittered away in hopes of a better pastime.
I kissed you at the apex of the maelstrom and asked if you would accompany me in a quick fall;
but you made me realize that my ticket wasn't good for two.
I rode alone.

You said, "The cinders are falling like snow."
There is poetry in despair, and we sang with unrivaled beauty, bitter elegies of savagery and eloquence, of blue and grey.
Strange, we ran down desperate streets and carved our names in the flesh of the city.
The sun has stagnated somewhere beyond the rim of the horizon, and darkness is a mystery of curves and lines.
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.

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[gizmoloe23]

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

[crovax3000]

@gizmoloe23 From my understanding, Davey wrote 2/3's, Jade wrote 1/3.

[mongoose100989]

Eh. 100 words was only released on Crash Love?

I always thought this was called 100 words...??

[crovax3000]

100 Words is completely different from this song.

[ttytim]

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!

[varinarox95]

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....

[Wh3nYour3Strang3]

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.

[alexinsc2008]

i remember when this instrumental was on the afireinside website whenever you would run your mouse over something.

[christykientzler]

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.

[varinarox95]

@DEADINSIDE1991 Yep and thank you :)

[DEADINSIDE1991]

@varinarox95 possibly a old comment but none the less a true one :)

[varinarox95]

@DEADINSIDE1991 Yeah..i cant believe i wrote that a year ago it sounded pretty good though :D it is true,too

[DEADINSIDE1991]

@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

[gangstazombiekilla]

@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]

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