The Sinking Night
Blackness drips down from both of my hands. The gold in my palm was mistaken for sand.
Can you feel it? The blackness it drips down from both of my eyes. The sand that you made
has taken my sight. I can feel it. Over the wind. Under the rain. Out of the chaos I can hear
your name through the sinking night. On this sinking night I see your face.
I Hope You Suffer
I got two letters from you: last words of the runaway. Your love was written so true and now I can’t
speak your name. I faced destruction and you just killed me and walked away. I gave my heart to
the cruel now it will not beat again. I hope you suffer. I hope you do, just like I suffered. No one will
ever know you. Deny the last one who cares. Intoxicate with the new. Pretend I’m no longer here.
I opened my heart to you. You lied just to reach inside. Now, with the faith you removed, our hope
for forgiveness dies. I’ve seen my darkest days. You gave each one to me. You have been lost for
days. May you find my darkness. I hope you suffer. I hope you do.
A Deep Slow Panic
I watched you glide out the door with poise I’d not seen before. I saw you shine. I collapsed to the
floor. It promised it missed me more and said, “True love is mine. I missed you. Did you miss
me?” Slowly, it’s consuming me, deliberate and deep. I can’t take this deeper panic. Teach me.
Teach me not to dream, dream deeply. I haven’t left here for days. My panic keeps me awake as
he unwinds inside. He told me I should have known, that he’d hated the way I’d grown to love soft
lies. “She lied. Do you miss her like I missed you?” Slowly, it’s consuming me, deliberate and deep.
I can’t take this deeper panic. Teach me. Teach me not to dream, dream deeply. Slowly I swallowed
your fears for all of those years. How could you let them consume me? Teach me how you sleep,
so sweetly.
No Resurrection
I wanted to save you, give breath that escaped you but you stayed down...to resuscitate you,
breath my breath back into you. You stayed out. I wanted to shake you, to scream to awaken you.
You stayed down - stayed out. In your slumber you saw everything, everything but me. Why must
we stop? Why must you crush our glow? Don’t you know that heaven is slow? Don’t remake our
heaven. I wanted to save us, wept words that escaped us but you stayed out. You shut them out. I
fell down to face you to find you were wakeful and you’d forced me out. I’m nothing now. In your
slumber you saved everything, everything but me. Why must we stop? Why must you crush our
glow? Don’t you know that heaven is slow? Don’t erase our heaven.
17 Crimes
If you had a day would you give me a moment? Would you you allow our play to leave no bone un-
broken? Let’s love like seventeen. I’m in love with poisoning. Only bring your pretty frightful gifts to
me. Lets love and kill like seventeen now. If I weren’t so cold we couldn’t freeze this moment. And
as we won’t grow old, we’ll leave no heart unbroken. Tomorrow cannot be like this and even though
it’s such a sin they will...tomorrow they will take us in. Let’s love like seventeen. I’m in love with
your new screams. Only bring those pretty frightful things to me. Let’s love and kill like seventeen
now. Let’s run and kill like seventeen. Now, lets love and kill like seventeen.
The Conductor
Drop like the needle. Today I felt it drain. I’ll climb back up to you on ladders of the rain. Break them
down. Shake their frail beliefs. I’ll show them a believer. Three hundred thousand amps and I’m your
warm receiver. When they kill the lights you’ll remain my conductor and if they dare to drain your
life I’ll become your conductor. Don’t cut the connection. Bleed into black clouds and I will lick them
clean. Turn to a tourniquet and cinch yourself to me. Strike down now. Shake their frail beliefs and
make them newborn believers. Three hundred thousand amps and I’m your warm receiver.
Heart Stops
Oh, my pretty precious stone just left me in ribbons. With my heart sliced carefully, you wear it
like a cheerful bow. There’s a light that you now adore but the bringer is cast down. I have never
been before so unhappy in my whole life. Heart stops beating, beat like a brutal day. You were
my first faith, made of lies like all the others. Heart stops beating, beat like a brutal day. I found
my last light but it died like all the others. Oh, my painful fatal flaw may your cruelty find you.
May the scars you left in me dig into you twice as deep. I know you’ll look away while I’m cry-
ing. I know you’ll wear that bow with a smile. Everything I gave you, it was wasted. Love further
down. Adore that denial. I stopped feeling. Numb, now I have to be. Because I trusted you, I
cannot trust another. Heart stops beating. What was brutality? You bathed in love light so I’ll die
like all the others
Rewind
Lie awake. Keep your cold eyes closed. Feel it crawl upon your chest, bear it’s teeth and steal your
breath. Stay awake as its creeping close. If you’re brave enough you’ll see. As it stares it looks a
lot like me though there’s no way I will materialize. Let the ghost that meets your eyes still haunt
you, remind you. There’s no way to apologize.Your selfish words must float denied like your crime.
I float now. We rewind. Draw a line that cannot be crossed. Make a circle out of salt knowing it
was all your fault. Hide inside. Call your doting dogs. As their weak servility feeds your emptiness,
remember me. They will sense me thought here’s no way I will materialize. Let the ghost that
meets your eyes still haunt you, remind you. Forever feel it as it’s gnawing, forever crawling, ever
crawling. Never caring always smiling, here to feed when you are falling. There’s no way I will ma-
terialize. Let the ghost that meets your eyes still haunt you, remind you. There’s no way. You can’t
apologize. Your selfish words must float denied like your crime. I float now. We rewind. I float now.
Forever. You did this. We rewind.
The Embrace
Watching it crumble might have eased the hurt. Feeling it disappear only made worse. Pulling it
piece by piece, slicing up ribbons could dismiss. To slowly disintegrate could have been the perfect
gift. May you feel, this while you sleep, push the poisonous thorns in you. May you feel this while
you wake. Bear your poisonous thorns. Walk into traffic. Running with open knives. Searching
for mercy here that I’m too weak to find. To take my deepest breath I walk into the raging sea - to
drown out this emptiness. It’s all you have left for me. I hope you feel it. I hope that you can feel
this. As it’s fading the darkness shifts. This may be the perfect gift.
Wild
Every one of my words - not worth believing. Every promise I kept, kept you deceiving. ‘Gave
golden years that you erased. I split my heart and watched you take every drop of my soul
and leave me bleeding. Yeah, you taught me this: True love wont’ be remembered. My regret
will last forever. Because I thought you’d never, yeah, you brought me here. I was painfully
true you were pretending. You told me this was heaven then you ascended. I gave you life, AFI: Jade Puget, Davey Havok, Hunter Burgan, Adam Carson
now pray for death, breathed into you you stole my breath. You told me, “Right from the
start, we started ending.” I believed in you. Now I’m singing ashamed that all my words are BURIALS
the same, because I’m singing betrayed. Music by Jade Puget
Lyrics by Davey Havok
Greater than 84 Performed by AFI
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we once found so pretty - our frail and only light. Love is all that’s left and I’m emotionless.
You won’t read it in the papers in this time. Keep your hands clean. Just read my mind. Produced by Gil Norton for 140db
We’re trapped between the nightmares and I fear the future’s here. It’s 1985 and it feels like Engineered by Dan Austin for 140db
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tonight. As you overthrow, looking pale and pretty, I welcome your requite. They told us love
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your hands clean you’ll wreck my mind. We’re trapped between the nightmares and I fear the Mastered by Stephen Marcussen at Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA
future’s here. It’s 1985 and it feels like survival. Can you read my mind?
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Anxious
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Tear into silence. My ears begin to ring, begin to ring in the new sound anxiously. Oh, I am
anxious and aching, breathing the burning air, caring for something that is not there. Knowing
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what’s fated, begin my fatal flight - flying obscenely into the light. But the light will evade me
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to bring down punishment. Punishing soundly it lets me live. Swing the serenade. I heard it
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swing. Swing love down and find the saddest song. I heard you swing the promises. You’ll
watch me swing now. Swing love now and choke what we’ve become. Black without blindness,
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my eyes begin to sting as my lips part to poison- sweet poisoning. Oh god, I feel like I’m
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dying. I’ve found death finally and it feels like heaven I’ll never reach. Swinging now, will
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you watch me? Turn it down. Drown it slowly. Is it off? I’m still listening. I’ll bite your lips
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though I know better than this. This is a death I cant resist.
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The Face Beneath The Waves
Someone said they saw me fall apart, part of me collected and destroyed. Tell me what it’s All songs  2013 Ex-Noctem Nacimur Music (BMI). Lyrics reprinted by permission.
like to hold a heart when it shatters. Someone said that they ran into her, asked if there
was any word of me and she swore that everything we were never mattered. There is a
face beneath the waves. I will return again. I will return to you. I will return again. I am part
of you. I am. Are you somewhere listening to me? Have these whispers finally found the afireinside.net, velvethammer.net, republicrecords.com
cracks? White walls won’t forever keep these screams. They will shatter. Secretly, you know
that I’m still here. While you’re being held you’re so alone for you killed the only one who
cared, let it shatter. There is a voice within the walls. What do you do when my soul invites
you? Oh, you’ll see me again. You know this will never end. What do you do when your heart & 2013 Universal Republic Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc., 1755 Broadway, New York, NY 10019.
reminds you? Oh, you’ll put me to death. But I will return again. I will be with you again. I Distributed by Universal Music Distribution. All rights reserved.
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will be with you. I am part of you. I am.
 1. The Sinking Night 2. I Hope You Suffer
3. A Deep Slow Panic 4. No Resurrection
5. 17 Crimes 6. The Conductor 7. Heart Stops
8. Rewind 9. The Embrace 10. Wild 11. Greater Than 84
12. Anxious 13. The Face Beneath The Waves