i still remember the 1st time i heard these hidden tracks, 15 yrs old sitting in my room in solitude with my walkman CD player roaming track to track as i lose myself in the music, then silence for a long time and as i lay there drifting into a world far from reality this began to play.. that was a powerful moment in time for me, ill never forget that day
I was an active duty Marine on my way home on leave before deployment when I heard this track the first time. I was driving in the middle of the night and just finished playing the cd all the way through and was riding in silence for a bit before I thought I heard a faint piano. Really put my head in an odd place to be honest but I was always drawn to this song after that. Now 20 years later I'm back again 🖤
I remember the first time I heard this when I was a young teen and now as a 30 year old man I still find power in this. I genuinely must have watched this 100 times over the years. Thank you for the years of strength and helping me understand my self at time through this. It's absolutely beautiful and will always be 1 of my favourite pieces of music.
This is one of the saddest things I've ever heard, read, and the best spoken poem ever. Not to mention This Time Imperfect coming in with Davey's INCREDIBLE vocal ability.
I dreamt about my high school girlfriend last night. I saw her draw in her notebook. The classes had finished and talked about studying art at the university. It's been ten years since high school. I don't know where she is now. I studied art and now I draw comics. Today i came to hear AFI and think that life ten years ago was beautiful.
We held hands on the last night of 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 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. The 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 the darkness is a mystery of curves and lines. Still, we lay under the emptiness and drifted slowly outward, and somewhere in the middle in the wilderness we found salvation scratched into the earth like a message
I remember the first time I got into AFI. It was 2003. I had just seen the leaving song for the first time . I instantly fell in love with Davey His lyrics are so intense. Esp this song.I Bought the Sing the Sorrow CD. When I first heard this song I just cried my eyes out All three generations describing a story (horrific) of their last night on earth. It is my favorite song off the Sing the Sorrow cassette along with Silver and Cold.& the leaving song of course. This song had a Deep impact and still makes me cry every time I listen to it Profound & very poignant.Xxx⚔️🌹⚔️🌹⚔️🌹⚔️🌹
This is by far the most beautiful song on this album. The tender age of 18 this album came out, I don't know why at the time, but tears came to my eyes the first time I heard this song, along with the spoken words that make up the first half of this song. There is something so powerful about it which I didn't really appreciate at the time, the words were just too beautiful I couldn't relate the song to anything else. I will never forget the time I first heard this song, it was definitely something else that took me somewhere else, thanks AFI for that memory. I'll never forget it.
in 2007 i was depressed and alone and i would listen to this song with not a friend in sight and my family in mexico. later i became Christian and i realized i was never meant to fit in.. anyone reading this, Jesus cares, even in the misery and the sorry, he loves a broken heart, he lovs you.
thjs is how old and only 67 comments!!?? This poem/ song has been my favorite work of art for over 10 years now . God i wish eveyone in the world could read/ hear this once.
This album brings back memories of my cousin Ryan. He passed away in October of 2003. We were the same age, and seeing him in that coffin made me realize how fucked up this world is. He died doing what he loved, but why him? Why not someone else?To this day, I'll forever remember you, Ryan Baxter 1989-2003
I still remember my first girl and all our meetings on a train statation, traveling home with train. It was winter period and only worries I had were when am I going to see her again. It’s been 14 years since that and I still remember her smile and kiss on my lips.
Sometimes Davey has impenetrable lyrics, but these are really eloquent, beautiful, tragic, profound.... Oh! I don't know if AFI will again make something so excellent as these 8 minutes...
Lyrical Gold . Simply phenomenal !!!! Afireinside melodies healing thine maladies . Of Bitter elogies my eloquence exasperated through savagery surrounding . I want to be in that apex of the maelstrom . Take me O plz take me Davey haha
i let this album play all the way while i was working on some photoshop art thing and this popped up and it crreeeeeped me out (at first) then i was totally in love with it
I'm back again and this time I'm Christian, I no longer feel lost, I came to tell you guys there is Hope in Jesus! he is listening to your every prayer!
i still remember the 1st time i heard these hidden tracks, 15 yrs old sitting in my room in solitude with my walkman CD player roaming track to track as i lose myself in the music, then silence for a long time and as i lay there drifting into a world far from reality this began to play.. that was a powerful moment in time for me, ill never forget that day
shane walker I was about 35...it impacted me in the same way. To this day it still brings tears to my eyes...
I was about the same age...
I remember just sitting in my room getting lost in the music this song was one of my favorites
+shane walker Word man :)
shane walker that's deep
same here...gives me chills and brings about an emotion I can't even explain...maybe a nostalgia for some place I've never been...
I'm not complaining. I'm actually happy this is known to so few people. It's our little beautiful secret ♥
I was an active duty Marine on my way home on leave before deployment when I heard this track the first time. I was driving in the middle of the night and just finished playing the cd all the way through and was riding in silence for a bit before I thought I heard a faint piano. Really put my head in an odd place to be honest but I was always drawn to this song after that. Now 20 years later I'm back again 🖤
I remember the first time I heard this when I was a young teen and now as a 30 year old man I still find power in this. I genuinely must have watched this 100 times over the years. Thank you for the years of strength and helping me understand my self at time through this. It's absolutely beautiful and will always be 1 of my favourite pieces of music.
This is one of the saddest things I've ever heard, read, and the best spoken poem ever.
Not to mention This Time Imperfect coming in with Davey's INCREDIBLE vocal ability.
every now and again i come and listen to this. i used to love this album back in high school, it really meant something to me back then.
yep listened to it at 16 , revisit at 30 . powerful lyrics
Same here. I still listen to it all the time and am always brought back to high school as well when I do
this time imperfect is hands down one of the best
I dreamt about my high school girlfriend last night.
I saw her draw in her notebook.
The classes had finished and talked about studying art at the university.
It's been ten years since high school.
I don't know where she is now.
I studied art and now I draw comics.
Today i came to hear AFI and think that life ten years ago was beautiful.
I'm about to embark on my own comics creation. Also I'm an afi fan too nice to meet you.
We held hands on the last night of 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 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. The 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 the darkness is a mystery of curves and lines. Still, we lay under the emptiness and drifted slowly outward, and somewhere in the middle in the wilderness we found salvation scratched into the earth like a message
💞💞💞
Soooooooo many memories and bad times conquered over this album.
This will be the song playing as I take my final breath.
The most beautiful thing I have ever listened to. I thank you for this wonderful video.
I remember the first time I got into AFI. It was 2003. I had just seen the leaving song for the first time . I instantly fell in love with Davey His lyrics are so intense. Esp this song.I Bought the Sing the Sorrow CD. When I first heard this song I just cried my eyes out All three generations describing a story (horrific) of their last night on earth. It is my favorite song off the Sing the Sorrow cassette along with Silver and Cold.& the leaving song of course. This song had a Deep impact and still makes me cry every time I listen to it Profound & very poignant.Xxx⚔️🌹⚔️🌹⚔️🌹⚔️🌹
This is by far the most beautiful song on this album. The tender age of 18 this album came out, I don't know why at the time, but tears came to my eyes the first time I heard this song, along with the spoken words that make up the first half of this song. There is something so powerful about it which I didn't really appreciate at the time, the words were just too beautiful I couldn't relate the song to anything else. I will never forget the time I first heard this song, it was definitely something else that took me somewhere else, thanks AFI for that memory. I'll never forget it.
in 2007 i was depressed and alone and i would listen to this song with not a friend in sight and my family in mexico.
later i became Christian and i realized i was never meant to fit in.. anyone reading this, Jesus cares, even in the misery and the sorry, he loves a broken heart, he lovs you.
thjs is how old and only 67 comments!!?? This poem/ song has been my favorite work of art for over 10 years now . God i wish eveyone in the world could read/ hear this once.
Massively beautiful song! The hidden tracks on Sing the Sorrow were just as strong as what preceded them!
This album brings back memories of my cousin Ryan. He passed away in October of 2003. We were the same age, and seeing him in that coffin made me realize how fucked up this world is. He died doing what he loved, but why him? Why not someone else?To this day, I'll forever remember you, Ryan Baxter 1989-2003
I still remember my first girl and all our meetings on a train statation, traveling home with train. It was winter period and only worries I had were when am I going to see her again. It’s been 14 years since that and I still remember her smile and kiss on my lips.
always keep comin back to this, huge inspiration in a weird way. gotta love it tho
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This got me through one of the worst times of my life and I love Davey Havok for that. 🖤
Sometimes Davey has impenetrable lyrics, but these are really eloquent, beautiful, tragic, profound.... Oh! I don't know if AFI will again make something so excellent as these 8 minutes...
The "Spoken Word" piano riff was the soundtrack to many of my nightmares in 7th grade. Sweet memories.
love these hidden tracks
My best friends mom died tonight (she was basically my 2nd mother) and this song describes the moment for me.
I always loved this one. It's so beautiful. 💔🥺
You mean, sounds kinda upbeat with the music, what it's about isn't exactly beautiful is it
MEMORIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lyrical Gold . Simply phenomenal !!!!
Afireinside melodies healing thine maladies . Of Bitter elogies my eloquence exasperated through savagery surrounding . I want to be in that apex of the maelstrom . Take me O plz take me Davey haha
DAMM DEPRESSING
DAMM BEAUTIFUK
DAMM AMAZING!!!I LOVE YOU GENESIS!!!
I love how you did this! This has been one of my favorite songs since I picked up the CD the day it was released. :)
nice... thanks.... like the piano and the scratchy touch ...
Wooaah that picture !!!!
i swear ive been there before
'Death is a midnight runner..."
greatest song ever
great great work on this ma'am..........
michael barnhill tysm
so much meaning
i let this album play all the way while i was working on some photoshop art thing and this popped up and it crreeeeeped me out (at first) then i was totally in love with it
Nostalgia
Aww You cut out the very end. I wanted to hear that very distant "The Answer is 7" at the end.
Oh well thank you for posting this
Envokes melancholic memories. 😒
thank you for posting this.
This song meant so much to me when I heard for my first time when I was 15
Jr high times when my bro and our friends and we spoke this and sing the song after it
rainymood com open a new tab with this website while listening to this song, best discovery ever
Ours.
A Fire 🔥Inside
I'd been trying to remember what song this was for years.
I'm back again and this time I'm Christian, I no longer feel lost, I came to tell you guys there is Hope in Jesus! he is listening to your every prayer!
I miss the Tony Cruise from 3 years ago :c
Gr8 b8 m8, I r8 8/8.
Thanks man... I owe you my... Well, i would say my body but thats bad...
yeah it took me quite awhile to figure it out but wallah!
@AFIRJOo mee too..!
If I die...
entence.....
4:18
Sounds like the CD this was ripped from was very scratched?! Better quality version here: ruclips.net/video/8NypRX5CpG0/видео.html
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