| AFI – Darling, I Want To Destroy You Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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this song is Davey/AFI talking to a version of himself/themselves. it's a struggle between the pre and post fame versions. the pre wants to destroy the post for allowing a big label to influence their music, the post wants to destroy the pre in order to get their music out to more people. both versions say "this is all for you"; the pre wanting to save the post from a bad change; the post wanting to help the pre rise. both versions "overdressed" the pre in punk sort of costume, the post in fancy new suits. both very different from the more raw natural looks the band sports today. in the end, the post is so overtaken by the label's control. the pre has been watching the process happen for years. the post in the name of the label begs for the pre's heart, to take control of every side of him, but the pre walks away. they then with a new label. |
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| AFI – Cold Hands Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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this is about fans not caring for the direction of the band, but clearly from the band's perspective of it. fans usually just blame AFI for "sellingout" or making worse music, but "In the company of swine" and "the hand of filth" is a reference to interscope's control over their music. sacred ground is a reference to Church of Havok and the general idea that AFI's music has saved many of their fans from life troubles. "tell me who appears when I'm gone" when the fans leave after the shows, interscope is there to hear their songs, and change them. |
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| AFI – It Was Mine Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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this is about their relationship with interscope and the loss of control over their musical style: What we captured got away (we were making our real music, true to ourselves) They've been recording all we say (we can't say anything because interscope is listening) You won't see them right away, but you'll hear them singing (fans don't see that interscope has such control, they still see us as the face, but these songs aren't us, this is interscope singing) They've come to take me away (interscope is slowly removing us from our own music to get the profit making style sold) Nothing pure can ever stay (our music was pure, it was us, it was mine) - The lyrics listed don't repeat the ending chorus, but the song ends with Davey singing "and won't leave until I'm gone....... I'm gone." this is the album closer, the end, the adulteration of their music is complete and they have been removed from it. |
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