This song was one of the few off the album written at vocalist and lyricist Davey Havok’s home in Oakland, CA. According to Havok, it features an “unlikely anti-chorus,” which is rare for the band, and he describes it as “one of the more haunting songs that live within the fragility of the record.”
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I wanted to save you
Give breath that escaped you
But you stayed down (Stayed down)
To resuscitate you
Breathe my breath back into you
You stayed out (Stayed out)
I wanted to shake you
To scream to awaken you
You stayed down (Stayed out)
In your slumber you saw everything
Everything but me
Why must we stop?
Why must we stop now?
Why must you crush our glow?
Don't you know that heaven is slow?
Don't remake our heaven
I wanted to save us
Wept words that escaped us
But you stayed out (You shut them out)
I fell down to face you
To find you were wakeful
And you'd forced me out, I'm nothing now
In your slumber you saved everything
Everything but me
Why must we stop?
Why must we stop now?
Why must you crush our glow?
Don't you know that heaven is slow?
Don't remake our heaven
Why must we stop?
Why must we stop now?
Why must you crush our glow?
Don't you know that heaven is slow?
Don't erase our heaven
No Resurrection was written by Jade Puget & Davey Havok.
No Resurrection was produced by Gil Norton.
AFI released No Resurrection on Tue Oct 22 2013.