AFI has released eleven studio albums, ten EPs, one live album and one DVD. The band first reached substantial commercial success with their fifth album, The Art of Drowning (2000), which peaked at number 174 on the Billboard 200. They then broke into the mainstream with their sixth, Sing the Sorrow (2003), which peaked at number five on the Billboard 200 and remained on the chart for 51 weeks. The album was supported by popular singles "Girl's Not Grey" and "Silver and Cold", both of which peaked at number seven on America's Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart in 2003. "The Leaving Song Pt. II" was also released as a single, reaching number 16 on the chart. Sing the Sorrow was certified Platinum by the RIAA in 2006 and is AFI's best-selling release, having sold over 1.26 million copies as of September 2009.
AFI's seventh album, Decemberunderground (2006), debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and featured the hit single "Miss Murder", which topped the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart and reached number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100. Another single, "Love Like Winter", reached number four on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA in 2013.[6] Decemberunderground was followed three years later by Crash Love (2009), and then four years later by Burials (2013); both albums were also successful, peaking at number twelve and number nine, respectively, on the Billboard 200. The band's tenth and latest album, AFI (The Blood Album), was released in 2017, and peaked at number five on the Billboard 200, making it their second-highest chart position.
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AFI Lyrics
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Feel it crawl upon your chest
Bear it's teeth and steal your breath
Stay awake as its creeping close
If you're brave enough you'll see
As it stares it looks a lot like me
It looks like me though
Let the ghost that meets your eyes still haunt you, remind you
There's no way to apologize
Your selfish words must float denied like your crime
I float now. We rewind
Draw a line that cannot be crossed
Make a circle out of salt
Knowing it was all your fault
Hide inside, call your doting dogs
As their weak servility
Feeds your emptiness, remember me
In solitude you will sense me though
There's no way I will materialize
Let the ghost that meets your eyes still haunt you, remind you
There's no way to apologize
Your selfish words must float denied like your crime
I float now. We rewind
Forever feel it as it's gnawing
Forever crawling, ever crawling
Never caring always smiling
Here to feed when you are falling
There's no way I will materialize
Let the ghost that meets your eyes still haunt you, remind you
There's no way, you can't apologize
Your selfish words must float denied like your crime
I float now. We rewind
We rewind
I float now, forever
You did this. We rewind
The song "Rewind" by AFI presents a dark and eerie narrative about a protagonist who haunts their own lover after death, manifesting as a crawling and gnawing presence that resembles the deceased. The lyrics depict a series of events where the singer's lover tries to protect themselves from the haunting, drawing a line with salt and hiding inside while calling their dogs for comfort. However, it's clear that the singer's presence still lingers and gnaws away at their former lover's soul. The song suggests that the singer's death was due to their lover's "selfish words" and "crime," which they must now live with forever.
The lyrics are exceptionally poetic and create a vivid image of the eerie and unsettling presence of the haunting. The use of metaphors such as "Bear its teeth and steal your breath" and "Forever crawling, ever crawling / Never caring always smiling" adds to the song's haunting atmosphere. The repetition of the line "We rewind" at the end of each verse and as the final line of the song underscores the idea that the singer is stuck in a cycle of revenge and haunting, doomed to hover over their lover for eternity.
Line by Line Meaning
Lie awake, keep your cold eyes closed
Stay up all night, keep your eyes shut tightly
Feel it crawl upon your chest
Sensation of something moving on your chest
Bear it's teeth and steal your breath
It seems to snarl and steal the air from your lungs
Stay awake as its creeping close
Stay up and carefully watch as it comes closer
If you're brave enough you'll see
Only the brave will see the truth
As it stares it looks a lot like me
It looks similar to me when it is looking at you
It looks like me though
It resembles me, but it is not really me
There's no way I will materialize
I can never exist in this world
Let the ghost that meets your eyes still haunt you, remind you
Let the apparition that meets your gaze continue to haunt and remind you
There's no way to apologize
There is no way for me to say sorry
Your selfish words must float denied like your crime
Your selfish words must go unheard, just like your crime
I float now. We rewind
I am currently weightless. We go back in time
Draw a line that cannot be crossed
Create a boundary that cannot be trespassed
Make a circle out of salt
Create a circle using salt for protection against evil
Knowing it was all your fault
You acknowledge that it was your fault
Hide inside, call your doting dogs
Find refuge inside and bring your devoted dogs to protect you
As their weak servility
As they obediently follow your every command
Feeds your emptiness, remember me
Their actions only fill your emptiness, but I want you to remember me
In solitude you will sense me though
Even if you are alone, you will still feel my presence
Forever feel it as it's gnawing
The feeling of pain will last forever and will slowly consume you
Forever crawling, ever crawling
It will always crawl towards you, no matter how far you run
Never caring always smiling
It doesn't care about your pain and always appears happy
Here to feed when you are falling
It will always feed on your pain when you are at your lowest
There's no way, you can't apologize
You cannot apologize, there is no way to do so
I float now. We rewind
I am weightless now, we go back in time
We rewind
We go back to a past event, to do things differently
You did this. We rewind
You caused this situation to happen, and now we try to fix it by going back in time
I float now, forever
I am weightless now, and it will be like that forever
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: Adam A Carson, David Paden Marchand, Hunter Lawrence Burgan, Jade Errol Puget
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