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Sei anni fa usciva "The Art Of Drowning", disco decisivo per la carriera dei californiani AFI.
Questo album è diventato decisivo perchè ha segnato l'apice del loro successo nell'ambito underground, con conseguente passaggio su major, ma soprattutto perchè ha perfezionato la loro formula musicale fondata su un punk-hardcore dalle tinte oscure.
Il disco si articola attraverso 15 tracce che mostrano una band matura e pronta per fare il grande salto e in procinto di conquistare il cuore di migliaia di fan in tutto il mondo. Dopo un breve intro si inizia subito forte con la, ormai classica, The Lost Souls ricca di cori e con un ritornello che si stampa subito in testa. Merita una menzione l'anthem Ever And A Day carica di romanticismo e classe. Seguono una serie di brani punk anni 90 interpretati ottimamente dal tenebroso vocalist Davey Havok, che insieme alla sua band confeziona pure un'ottima hit come The Days Of The Phoenix. Tra gli episodi migliori ci sono Wester, The Despair Factor, particolarmente cara ai fan della band e Morning Star, una ballata dolce e poetica.
Per concludere, se volete capire chi sono i moderni AFI, quelli che debuttano in cima alle classifiche USA, occorre necessariamente conoscere il loro recente passato fatto di album come questo, pieni di ispirazione, melodie hardcore e quell'alone dark che da anni è il marchio della band più oscura della California.
Elenco tracce e testi
02 The Lost Souls (02:44)
If you can't stand upon the water I will see you on the ocean floor.
When you blink do you only find the misery between the lines?
Then take my hand and walk with me.
Come to me, your sanctuary,
I'll gladly accept the gift that I've been granted.
If you, feel fine, then give it just a little time.
I'm sure you'll contract my disease.
Look what you've done to me now,
You've made me perfect.
Look what you've done to me now.
If you can't stand upon the earth then I will see you on the other side.
When you blink do you only find the misery weighs down your eyes?
Then take my side and sleep with me.
Look what you've done to me now,
You've made me perfect.
Look what you've done to me now.
Take my hand, I'll be everything to you.
Take my hand, I'll take everything from you.
I will seep under your skin.
I will.
I will hold onto your heart.
I will.
Look what you've done to me now,
You've made me perfect.
Look what you've done to me now.
Look what you've done to me now,
You've made me perfect.
Look what you've done to me now.
What have you done?
What have you done?
What have you done?
What have you done?
Done
03 The Nephilim (02:37)
[chorus]
Swing through sadness, tears of joy.
Curse the sunlight.
Arsenic for the girls and boys.
Drink the madness, smoke so coy.
Smile injection.
Serum of a will destroyed.
The seasons change without me.
I remain in shadows growing wings.
The spirit song still surrounds me, in refrain, in shadows growing wings.
[chorus]
Like an angel with two broken wings, reach the to sky again.
Like a devil, meant for better things, I will find my place on high.
The seasons change without me.
I remain in shadows growing wings.
The spirit song still surrounds me, in refrain, in shadows growing wings.
05 Sacrifice Theory (02:00)
Hear one thousand screams.
Hear one thousand voices.
A solitary echo.
Feel one thousand pains,
But one is receiving a bloody invitation.
Do you want to feel the warmth?
To taste the life, to taste the life?
Do you want taste the life?
To taste the life, to taste the life flow?
Go, Go
Feel one thousand lost,
sinking into soft skin.
Ingest rejuvenation.
One to consume,
One to renew.
Demanded invitation.
Do you want to feel the warmth?
To taste the life, to taste the life?
Do you want taste the life?
To taste the life, to taste the life flow?
I offer grace,
I offer blood.
I offer everything till my heart is crystal clear.
I offer grace,
I offer blood.
I offer everything till my heart is crystal clear.
Let me taste the life flow.
Do you want to feel the warmth?
To taste the life, to taste the life?
I want to taste the life.
To taste the life, to taste the life flow.
Go, Go, Woah, Go
06 Of Greetings and Goodbyes (03:06)
Now ending discreetly, just like a hidden sin,
as I go under please tuck me in.
Make me invisible.
This hidden explosion calls for a wandering cast with no direction.
Enter all monsters let us twist another fairy tale.
( whoa whoa)Go kill the lights, we'll glow till morning comes.
Then we go under ( whoa whoa)
I'll say goodnight and bow to everyone.
Then we go under.
The beauties are sleeping as fruit just rots away.
Today go hungry.
Let it begin.
Make me invincible.
There was a weeping I carried down today, a sigh worth keeping.
Deep within divinity let's star another secret show.
( whoa whoa)Go kill the lights, we'll glow till morning comes.
Then we go under ( whoa whoa)
I'll say goodnight and bow to everyone.
No need to worry it is just another monster.
No need to fear here in the secret show.
No need to worry I am just another monster.
In you, I'll see me, in the secret show.
( whoa whoa)Go kill the lights, we'll glow till morning comes.
07 Smile (01:33)
Overwhelmed with a deep repulsion for sights seen so commonly,
now I have come to be the walking enmity.
Assimilate into a culture of post morality, from what I've seen, I hate humanity.
Rot with repulsion. I'll write the world a brand new song.
Look upon your bleak creation,
but is it truly me that's to be the human blasphemy?
I'll set the world on fire and,
in burning light I'll write my first love song and I will feel warmth.
Hide your eyes in heaven, in the lies.
Believe. Relieve. I'll end the world tonight.
Overwhelmed with a deep repulsion for sights seen so commonly,
now I have come
to be a walking enmity, for humanity,
the human blasphemy,
I'll end the world tonight.
10 The Days of the Phoenix (03:29)
I remember when I was told of story of crushed velvet,
candle wax, and dried up flowers
The figure on the bed all dressed up in roses, calling
Beckoning to sleep,
Offering a dream
words were as mystical as purring animals
The circle of rage
The ghosts on the stage appeared
The time was so tangible, I'll never let it go
Ghost stories handed down, reached secret tunnels below
No one could see me
I fell into yesterday
Our dreams seemed not far away
I want to, I want to, I want to stay
I fell into fantasy
The words were as mystical as purring animals
The circle of rage
The ghosts on the stage appeared
The time was so tangible, I'll never let it go
Ghost stories handed down, reached secret tunnels below
No one could see me
I fell into yesterday.
Our dreams seemed not far away
I want to, I want to, I want to stay.
I fell into fantasy
The girl on the wall always waited for me,
And she was always smiling
The teenage death boys
The teenage death girls
And everyone was dancing
Nothing could touch us then
No one could change us then
Everyone was dancing
Nothing could hurt us then
No one could see us then
Everyone was dancing
Everyone was dancing
No one could see me
I fell into yesterday
Our dreams seemed not far away
I want to, I want to, I want to stay
I fell into fantasy
Our dreams seemed not far away
Our dreams seemed not far away
Our dreams seemed not far away
I fell into fantasy
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12 Wester (03:03)
Wester
I can feel you waitin' for me when the sun retreats to the hills and I,
below the blanket of a burnin' sky, wrap myself within.
Embraced by dead leaves as the rain leaves trails of black down my face, and I
creep through the twilight to that hidden place beyond the lonely
I'll meet you tonight in the whispers when no one's around.
Nothing can stop us now.
Tonight in the whispers where we won't be found.
Nothing can stop us now...
I can feel you dreamin' of me and the time when our steps are retraced and I
creep through the twilight to that hidden place, beyond the lonely.
I'll meet you tonight in the whispers when no one's around.
Nothing can stop us now.
Tonight in the whispers where we won't be found.
Nothing can stop us now.
Tonight in the whispers when no one's around.
Nothing can stop us now.
Tonight in the whispers where we won't be found.
Nothing can stop us...
I can feel you dreamin' of me, I can feel you dreamin'.
I can feel you dreamin' of me, beneath a dream, beneath a dream.
I can feel you dreamin' of me, I can feel you dreamin'.
I can feel you dreamin' of me, lost in a dream, lost in a dream.
Tonight, in the whispers when no one's around.
Nothing can stop us now.
Tonight in the whispers where we won't be found.
Nothing can stop us now.
Tonight, in the whispers when no one's around.
Nothing can stop us now.
Tonight in the whispers where we won't be found.
Nothing can stop us...
14 The Despair Factor (03:56)
Along the path where the stream is talking,
I breathe the mist and continue walking.
The wood it whispers in a language of it's own.
As a sigh escaped my lips,
I feel the light caress of fingertips that,
steal away the breath and leave me on my own.
Waiting by the stairs. (Waiting, I despair)
Waiting, I despair. (Waiting by the stairs)
My whole life is a dark room.
One, big, dark room.
Do I hear the hollow sound,
Footsteps resounding on this frozen ground,
Or the familiar disappointment of the echoes of my own?
Waiting by the stairs. (Waiting i despair)
Waiting, I despair. (Waiting by the stairs)
[whispers:]
Somehow I ended up here in between,
Where there is always the comfort,
Of knowing I'll never be seen.
When I fall
When I fall
I wait for just one touch,
And I fall
Weightless,
Endless,
Faithless, I'll adore you.
A single touch, before I fade. Painless let me pass through.
Weightless,
Endless,
Faithless, I'll adore you.
A single touch, before I fade. Painless let me pass through.
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