Fishbowl
A.f.i.
Just like every yesterday.

Heavy heat

And sheets stick to my skin.

Can t get away from nothingness.

I try to get up

But i have to give in to the force that is keeping me down.

I overcome gravity

I look outside.

A cat cries out

Trapped upon a window sill

But is crying s drowned out by my screaming inside.

What will it take?

I wonder what it s like exposed outside

Would i be safe?

When will it break.

Try to look out

I see reflection i just want to break.

Sirens moan.

They re forever crying…someone s probably dying.

The sound sticks inside my head.

Talk to myself

I m company

But who is to say if nothing if said?

Two windows stare back at me.

Three stories high nothing is new.

I may sit

But someday i ll stand.

I ll muster up the will and fire myself through.

Narrative Of Soul Against Soul
A.f.i.
I have seen the self image

They ve forced you to reduce to shattered glass

With the only remaining value lying in it s jagged edges.

But the few who warrant waking for await their recognition.

No fear of death but with fear of life

Your weakness kills everyone.

So live.

Angels for everyone.

For no lack of searching i can t seem to find one.

Angels in everyone.

What of all their promises?

Can t seem to find much more than lies.

Angels in anyone.

A permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Before i d lay me down to rest

I d throw away everything to live.

Modern Epic
A.f.i.
I ve seen it all before.

I ve seen it once or twice and now i hear it call to board.

This train is moving fast but how long is it gonna last.

I guess that we ll find out as well go in through the out door.

Don t ever let go.

Is this the start?

Is this the end?

New faces ask

“what s happening?”

I bite my tongue and hold my breath and tell them

“the same old thing.”

I don t know what s going

On but i don t wanna do it wrong.

Don t wanna contradict myself with all the words i sing.

Miseria Cantare The Beginning
A.f.i.
NothingFrom nowhereI am no one at all

RadiateRecognizeOne silent call

As we all form one dark flame

Incinerate.

NothingFrom nowhereI am no one at all

RadiateRecognizeOne silent call

As we all form one dark flame

As we all form one dark flame

As we all…

Love your hateyour faith lostyou are now one of us! [x3

Midnight Sun Hidden Track
A.f.i.
What i saw at the edge of the see.

Only those elements time cannot wear

And they follow.

What seeped out throught the cracks in time

What sucks out the color in me?

What awaits beyond infinity?

Beyond and to all time i stand.

What blew in with the great gale?

What weighed down the falling leaves?

What came forth from the remains?

What has always lived and gone unseen?

What has caused the night to fall?

Who speaks of eternity?

Who awakes to night eternally?

Beyond and to all time i stand.

De profundis clamavi baudelaire

O my sole lovei pray thee pity me

From out this dark gulf where my poor heart lies

A baren world hemmed in by leaden skies

Where horror flies at nightand blasphemy.

For half the year the sickly sun is seen

The other half thick night lies on the land

A country bleaker than the polar strand;

No beastsno brooksnor any shred of green.

There never was a horror which surpassed

This icy sun s cold crueltyand this vast

Night like primeval chaos; would i were

Like the dumb bruteswho in a secret lair

Lie wrapt in stupid slumber for a space…

Time creeps at so burdensome a pace.

Malleus Maleficarum
A.f.i.
And i won t deny what i ve been since birth.

I ll die drowned by your standards.

Breathe in the life of the summmer s death as the orange

And red breathe their first breath

So welcome as they re burning through.

We all begin to burn.

Autumn s flame dance s in my eyes

Set alight for all we ve learned.

My ashes falling.

My skin is singed but it heals my heart

And with glowing pride i ll wear my scars.

I m honored by your hatred.

Leaves fall we arise again

And the end impending

It will begin.

So welcome as it s burning through.

Ashes fall and i m rising up again. ashes fall.

Ashes fall. ashes fall as we all arise.

He Who Laughs Last…
A.f.i.
Its a valuable commodity

But obviously this is something you ve never learned.

Faith is something that you put in friends

And had i excess morals to lend

I d let you borrow them

But my trust you haven t earned.

We ve got a problem?

First of all there is no “we”

I m detached from you completely.

I ve got a problem.

You tell lies to my friends and think it won t get back to me.

No bond can ever seem to make a stable fit in our relationship

But one thing that never comes between us is honesty.

When you have something to say

You always seem to find a way to avoid the truth or instead

Avoid me. straight up is how you ll see me standbut it is never in your plans to be straight forward

So insteadyou use deceit.

Now i would like to take apart

What you ve been breaking from the start.

I ll remain intact

I won t be broken in defeat.

No trust!

Halloween
A.f.i.
Pumpkin faces in the night

I remember Halloween

Dead cats hanging from poles

Little dead are out in droves

I remember halloween

Brown leafed vertigo

Where skeletal life is known

I remember halloween

This day anything goes

Burning bodies hanging from poles

I remember halloween

HalloweenHalloweenHalloweenHalloween

Candy apples and razor blades

Little dead are soon in graves

I remember halloween

This day anything goes

Burning bodies hanging from poles

I remember halloween

HalloweenHalloweenHalloweenHalloween…OOOHH

God Called In Sick Today
A.f.i.
Murderous filigree.

I m caught in the twisting of the vine.

Go ascend with ivyclimbing.

Ignore and leave for me the headstone crumbling behind.

I can t help my laughter as she cries.

My soul brings tears to angelic eyes.

Let s amend the classic storyclose it so beautifully

I ll let animosity unwind.

Steal away the darkened pageshidden so shamefully.

I ll still feel the violence of the lines.

I can t stand my laughter as they cry.

My soul brings tears to angelic eyes.

And miles away my mother cries.

Omnipotencenurturing malevolence.

Girl s Not Grey
A.f.i.
This art does drown.

What follows me as the whitest lace of light will swallow whole

just begs to be imbrued?

What follows has lead me to this place where I belongwith all erased.

What follows

All insects sing tonightthe coldest sound.

I d send god s grace tonightcould it be found.

What follows me as the whitest lace of light will swallow whole

just begs to be imbrued?

What follows has lead me to this place where I belongwith all erased.

I ll lay me down tonight much further down… watch stars go out tonight.

On sinking ground….. I ll lay me down.x2

What follows me as the whitest lace of light will swallow whole

just begs to be imbrued?

What follows has lead me to this place where I belongwith all erased.

What follows will swallow whole

What follows will swallow whole

File 13
A.f.i.
I sleep until there is no light.

I m wide awake all through the night.

Diner may suck but i ll take a bite

I do whatever i can.

My muscles stiffen through the day.

Discomfort never goes away.

Why dont u just throw me away

I feel like a garbage can.

Throw me away

I ve got no use.

Throw me away

I m nothing to lose.

Throw me away

I feel like shit.

I am useless.

I know i know nothing at all.

I d take stand

But i know i d fall.

I d run head-down into a wall and watch my blood run faster.

Girls laugh and pass me on the street.

I spook out everyone i meet.

I ve got pink toenails on my feet

I m such a fucking master.

Throw me away

I ve got no use.

Throw me away

I m nothing to lose.

Throw me away

I feel like shit.

I am useless.

I never seem to feel well.

I always seem to look like hell.

It seems like everyone can tell my mind is going numb.

My mom thinks i wear women s clothes.

I get dogged on at all the shows.

It seems that everybody know i look like a fucking bum.

Throw me away

I ve got no use.

Throw me away

I m nothing to lose.

Throw me away

I feel like shit.

I am useless.

Fall Children
A.f.i.
The wait now ends.

From four corners smoke plumes into reddened sky.

In the face of lantern lightmy destiny lies.

This day so hallowedfrom here to forever its will i will follow.

Tonight will come to life.

Deadened branches stirred by whispers in the wind.

Fall children fill the streets at duskat lastit all will begin.

Fall Children
A.f.i.
The wait now ends.

From four corners smoke plumes into reddened sky.

In the face of lantern lighttonight my destiny lies.

This day so hallowedthis day so hallowedfrom here to forever its will i will follow.

This day so hallowedthis day so hallowedtonight will come to life.

Deadened branches stirred by whispers in the wind.

Fall children fill the streets at duskat lastit all will begin.

This day so hallowedthis day so hallowedfrom here to forever its will i will follow.

This day so hallowedthis day so hallowedtonight will come to life.

I knowI knowI knooooooow.

I knowI knooooooow

Fall children.

This day so hallowedthis day so hallowedfrom here to forever its will i will follow.

This day so hallowedthis day so hallowedtonight will come to life.

To life!

Exsanguination
A.f.i.
And take comfort in what you ve become.

I waved as i passed myself along the way.

I have arrived so unashamed but my reflection no longer seems the same.

It seems much dimmer now… it seems so dim.

Just stumble and fall into a world that s over crowded.

And you will find me.

Won t recognize me;

And i won t recognize myself.

I ve arrived so unashamed

But all my senses no longer seem the same.

I can sense everything.

My sight s so clear.

In an instantmy life just slipped away

I fought for lifethe whole time you were holding me down.

You watched me dying.

Holding me downyou brought my rebirth.

Death Of Season
A.f.i.
Just to go outsideto leave this dead space

with hatredso alive

Writhing with sickness

thrown into banalityI decay.

Killed by the weaknessbut forced to return. Turn it off.

I watch the stars as they fall from the sky

I held the falling star and it wept for medying.

I feel the falling stars encircle menow as they cry

Out there so quicklygrows malignant tribes.

Posthuman extinction excels unrecognized.

Feeling surrounded

So bored with mortalityI decay.

All of this hatredis fucking real

I watch the stars they fall from the sky

I held the falling star and it wept for medyin

I feel the falling stars encircle menow as they cry

it won t be alrightdespite what they say

Just watch the stars tonight as theyas they disappear

disintegrate.

And I disintegrate. Cause this hate is fucking real

And I hope to shade the world as stars go out and I disintegrate