smifettes:

Fuck yeah, Sing the Sorrow pillow. Thank you for the be-lated birthday present, brother.

*_*

Will you join me in this dance…?

Will you join me in this dance, this dance of misery

Cradled in imposs… impossibility?

Swooning, I am swept away

Swept off my feet, with step by step by step

We take the lead as drop by drop, we start… to bleed

Will you lend yourself to beauty that will horrify?

Let me hide within your black, the still inside your eyes

Deafened, caught within a cry

So sensual, as step by step by step, I seperate

As breath to breath, as I… suffocate

So who will follow? Who is the lead?

I know I’ll leave a stain, because I bleed

As we dance, we all dance

We all… have no chance in this horrid romance

(Oh, we dance in misery)

And we dance on, and we dance on

(Oh, we dance in misery)

All lost in the arms of our misery, oh

(Oh, we dance in misery)

And we dance on, and we dance on

Swept off our feet by misery, we’re swept into the shadows

Swept off our feet by misery, we’re swept into the shadows

whokilledmaxine:

the first band i ever loved was afi, and i loved them viciously. they were my whole world, and they opened me up to everything i listen to now. without a doubt, they are still a huge deal to me, even if i don’t really “get” them anymore. crash love or whatever it’s called is really bad. but that’s not the point. 

i was 13 when i discovered them, and i came in with sing the sorrow. i had the red cover (ref: AFI-Sing-The-Sorrow—497144.jpg). but if you had the SILVER cover, it was a big deal. it was really hard to find and everyone was always searching for one. even when afi faded for me, i still tried to find one without luck.

but a couple of weekends ago my boyfriend and i went to my local FYE and i found a silver copy. but i didn’t really feel like spending money on something i really already had. but today i stopped in the same shopping center for something else and decided if it was still there, i had to get it, and it was. i’m now revisiting age 13. it rules. after some googling, this is apparently either a first pressing or uk version. awesome. 

kaptaink:

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 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 into 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 outwards, and somewhere in the wilderness we found salvation, scratched into the earth like a message.

The Spoken Word

fiveflowers:

Day 6 - Handwrite your favourite song/song quote

This took the piss to write out but it’s beautiful so it doesn’t matter :)
It’s the Spoken Word inbetween Now the World and This Time Imperfect on AFI’s ‘Sing the Sorrow’ (or at least, the UK version of it). It’s weird because I hate poetry but this is a huge exception. I love it ridiculous amounts.

caughtfireplayingsuicide:

When I was in the hospital I slept with headphones and this on repeat. My favorite album of any artist and brilliantly produced to make one long symphony you can listen to played through over and over without any jarring disconnect between songs. ~Misery

(Source: afireinside.net, via hewhocaughtfire)

stephas-ramblings:

Kay, as some of you may know, my mother passed away three months ago. Well since then, I’ve been in kind of a depression roller coaster. There are days when I’m like totally normal and shit, then BAM, I’ll be depressed all over again. Well, I was in the depression part of my emotional ride and it didn’t help that I moved 8 hours away to go to college in Northern California. I moved away from everything, my family, my friends, and of course, my memories of home. So I was not only feeling incredibly sad because of my mom, I was feeling home sick. 

Anyways, my super duper awesome roommate, Lea,  invited me to go the AFI/Green Day show at Shoreline and I almost said no because I honestly didn’t feel like being surrounded by a shit ton of people. I was also thinking of doing something to harm myself that night when I was alone. Fortunately, I said yes and drove like 2.5 hours with her to the show. We met up with one of her Green Day friends and they ended up giving me a free ticket to the show. He was the sweetest man ever for doing that, so I’m like forever grateful. <3

So, we’re inside the gates now, and we’re walking around. Lea noticed that there was this huge crowd in front of Live 105’s booth, so we head over and that’s when I see Davey in person in his adorable red suit.

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AFI’s Sing The Sorrow symbols by Alan Forbes

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