AFI (short for A Fire Inside) is an alternative rock band from California. Besides their music, the band is also noted for being vegan and following the hardcore punk lifestyle known as “straight edge” which involves abstaining from alcohol, smoking, and recreational drug use. Their most recent album, Decemberunderground, was enormously successful reaching #1 on the Billboard Charts and two songs from the album have reached #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart. This song is the last single released from an earlier album, Sing the Sorrow (2003) which reached #5 on the Billboard charts.

Silver and Cold

I, I came here by day,
but I left here in darkness
and found you, found you on the way.

Now, it is silver and silent.
It is silver and cold.
You in somber resplendence,
I hold…

Your sins into me,
oh, my beautiful one.
Your sins into me.
As a rapturous voice escapes
I will tremble a prayer
and I’ll beg for forgiveness.
Your sins into me,
Your sins into me
oh, my beautiful one.

Light, like the flutter of wings,
feel your hollow voice rushing
into me as you’re longing to sing.
So I,I will paint you in silver.
I will wrap you in cold.
I will lift up your voice as I sink.

Your sins into me,
oh, my beautiful one, now
Your sins into me.
As a rapturous voice escapes
I will tremble a prayer
and I’ll beg for forgiveness.
Your sins into me,
Your sins into me

Cold in life’s throes.
I’ll fall asleep for you.
Cold in life’s throes.
I only ask you turn away.
Cold in life’s throes.
I’ll fall asleep for you.
Cold in life’s throes
I only ask you turn
as they seep into me,
oh, my beautiful one, now…

Your sins into me,
oh, my beautiful one, now
Your sins into me.
As a rapturous voice escapes
I will tremble a prayer
and I’ll beg for forgiveness.
Your sins into me,
Your sins into…
Your sins into me
Oh my beautiful one!

written by Davey Havok

The video for this song was filmed in Prague.

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