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.
The Devil Love
AFI Lyrics
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Have you ever felt? Ever felt this way?
Tainted with rage you can't drain away
Or it will cost you your life
I couldn't care
I couldn't care
I couldn't care more
I couldn't care
I couldn't care
I couldn't care more
Ever absorb what shouldn't be touched?
Have you ever cared ever cared this much?
Do you think it is I who is out of touch
Or are you too scared to think at all?
I couldn't care
I couldn't care
I couldn't care more
I couldn't care
I couldn't care
I couldn't care more
I couldn't care
I couldn't care
I couldn't care
I couldn't care
I couldn't care
I couldn't care more
As your friends fall does it tear your heart?
Do tears fill your eyes as your world falls apart?
Do you notice at all or are you sailing sublime?
Am I completely alone?
I couldn't care
I couldn't care
I couldn't care more
I couldn't care
I couldn't care
I couldn't care more
I couldn't care
I couldn't care
I couldn't care
I couldn't care
I couldn't care
I couldn't care more
The lyrics to AFI's song The Devil Loves reveal a complicated inner conflict within the singer. At the start of the song, the singer asks if the listener has ever felt "tainted with rage" and unable to "drain away" the feeling, knowing that it could cost them everything. The singer then professes a lack of caring with the repetition of the line "I couldn't care more." However, this is in stark contrast to the questions posed throughout the song, which suggest the singer does care deeply but may be struggling to admit it.
Next, the singer asks if the listener has ever "absorb[ed] what shouldn't be touched" with the implication that they have. They then question whether it is them who is "out of touch" or if the listener is "too scared to think at all." The repeated "I couldn't care more" throughout the song takes on a more sarcastic tone as it becomes clear that the singer is trying to convince themselves that they don't care.
The final verse brings up the idea of friends falling, tears filling eyes, and the world falling apart. The singer questions whether the listener even notices these things or if they are "sailing sublime" with no care for anyone but themselves. The final line, "Am I completely alone?" brings the song full circle to the idea of feeling isolated in one's own emotions and the struggle to admit to caring.
Overall, The Devil Loves is a complex exploration of the human experience, specifically the struggle to reconcile one's internal emotional conflict with the reluctance to admit vulnerability or caring for someone or something.
Line by Line Meaning
What I'm trying to say?
What message am I attempting to convey?
Have you ever felt? Ever felt this way?
Have you experienced this exact feeling before?
Tainted with rage you can't drain away
Filled with anger that you cannot eliminate
Or it will cost you your life
Otherwise, it will have dangerous repercussions.
I couldn't care
I am indifferent
I couldn't care more
Nothing could make me care even a little bit.
Ever absorb what shouldn't be touched?
Have you ever taken in something that was unfit for consumption?
Have you ever cared ever cared this much?
Have you ever been this concerned?
Do you think it is I who is out of touch
Do you believe that I am the one who is disconnected from reality?
Or are you too scared to think at all?
Or are you too afraid to contemplate anything?
As your friends fall does it tear your heart?
Does your heart break as you witness your friends' failures?
Do tears fill your eyes as your world falls apart?
Do you cry as everything around you crumbles?
Do you notice at all or are you sailing sublime?
Are you unaware, or are you blissfully ignorant?
Am I completely alone?
Do I have no one beside me?
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@smoky34589
this song fucking rocks man
@SoDamnGangsta
i swear every band that stops doing harsher vocals gets a throat surgery rumor
@GK95_
They're breaking up? I thought they were touring again soon or something. And yeah, I'm not a big fan of Conviction anymore, but that was the album I found them through back when I first got into them. There's a lot of memories contained within those tracks lol.
@KevCky
@RainbowLuvsJeff haha you forgot bad religion, they didn't change either, after 30 years! kickass!
@GK95_
I like them, but I don't see the similarity between any of their new and old stuff. Even the Rain In Hell EP was a sharp change.
@GK95_
@RainbowLuvsJeff Aiden have changed like hell! Conviction was nothing at all like Our Gang's Dark Oath.
@PsychoFalcon666
Bad ass band, especially, especially their punk stuff. Their new stuff is...different. I don't hate it, in fact, I love "The Art of Drowning" and "Sing the Sorrow", but they're not nearly as good anymore. I wonder what changed them?