The Spoken Word by AFI
The Spoken Word by AFI

The Spoken Word

AFI * Track #13 On Sing the Sorrow

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The Spoken Word by AFI

Release Date
Tue Mar 11 2003
Performed by
AFI
Produced by
Jerry Finn & Butch Vig
Writed by
Davey Havok & Adam Carson & Jade Puget & Hunter Burgan
About

The Spoken Word begins after a period of silence from “…but home is nowhere”. Like the title, this is a spoken word poem. Artistically, it describes a young couple affected by an impending doom. The narrator ages each verse beginning as a little boy, an young adult (Davey Havok), and an elderly man....

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The Spoken Word Lyrics

We held hands on the last night of earth. Our mouths filled with dust, we kissed in the fields and under trees, screaming like dogs, bleeding dark into the leaves. It was empty on the edge of town but we knew everyone floated along the bottom of the river. So we walked through the waste where the road curved into the sea and the shattered seasons lay, and the bitter smell of burning was on you like a disease. In our cancer of passion you said, "Death is a midnight runner."

The sky had come crashing down like the news of an intimate suicide. We picked up the shards and formed them into shapes of stars that wore like an antique wedding dress. The echoes of the past broke the hearts of the unborn as the Ferris wheel silently slowed to a stop. The few insects skittered away in hopes of a better pastime. I kissed you at the apex of the maelstrom and asked if you would accompany me in a quick fall, but you made me realize that my ticket wasn't good for two. I rode alone

You said, "The cinders are falling like snow." There is poetry in despair, and we sang with unrivaled beauty, bitter elegies of savagery and eloquence. Of blue and grey. Strange, we ran down desperate streets and carved our names in the flesh of the city. The sun has stagnated somewhere beyond the rim of the horizon and the darkness is a mystery of curves and lines. Still, we lay under the emptiness and drifted slowly outward, and somewhere in the middle in the wilderness we found salvation scratched into the earth like a message

The Spoken Word Q&A

Who wrote The Spoken Word's ?

The Spoken Word was written by Davey Havok & Adam Carson & Jade Puget & Hunter Burgan.

Who produced The Spoken Word's ?

The Spoken Word was produced by Jerry Finn & Butch Vig.

When did AFI release The Spoken Word?

AFI released The Spoken Word on Tue Mar 11 2003.

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