The Checkered Demon

AFI

Too much to find,
so much so little time.
So many images persist to shade my mind.
Will I ever come around or will I just hit the ground?
Will I still be standing when it all comes down?
Why can't I seem to sort it out?
Why am I always filled with doubt?
So many people everywhere,
so self absorbed without a care.
Of their viral lives,
I'd like to bleed them all.
When all is drained, who shall hold?
When mindless bodies screw tortured souls,
will somebody be there to catch me when I fall?
Why can't I seem to sort it out.
Why am I always filled with doubt.
How could I always be so blind?
Why can't I figure it out.
I could always hope for change,
could always hope to rearrange.
But why not just abandon hope and tear it all apart now?


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    this reminds me of a time that was really hard for me cuz of my ongoing battle with anxiety, etc.
    whennitecomesdwnon September 28, 2002   Link
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    I think this song is about just being kind of confused/depressed/doubtful about life. I think a lot of people feel this way sometimes.
    Madcappunkon April 15, 2003   Link
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    YEa me too i had social anxiety.. and sometimes i still feel it thats exactly how i felt that people were making fun of me behind my back and i thought that they are so stupid for staring at someone that they didnt even know(for a person with anxiety staring at them is torture) When mindless bodies screw tortured souls
    fallchild9989on December 22, 2004   Link
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    at the beginning when he says "va te faire foutre" that means "fuck you" in french
    dirtymagicon August 13, 2006   Link
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    Haha :) well I guess I have social anxiety too then. Staring is torture for me and I always think people are laughing at me and looking down on me. is it just in my head...?
    MissNeuroticon December 16, 2007   Link

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