The Despair Factor

AFI · The Art of Drowning [2000]

Along the path where the stream is talking

I breathe the mist and continue walking

The wood it whispers in a language of it's own

As a sigh escaped my lips

I feel the light caress of fingertips

that steal away the breath and leave me on my own



Waiting by the stairs, Waiting, I despair

Waiting by the stairs, Waiting, by the...

(my whole life is a dark room,

one, big, dark, room)



Do I hear the hollow sound

footsteps resounding on this frozen ground

or the familiar disappointment of the echoes of my own?



Waiting by the stairs, Waiting, I despair

Waiting by the stairs, Waiting, by the stairs

Waiting by the stairs, Waiting, I despair

Waiting by the stairs, Waiting, by the stairs



For redeption, for election, for the times when i did say;

for the extacsy, for the champion day, whats the point of my fragility?



Somehow I ended up here in between,

where there is always the comfort

of knowing I'll never be seen

when I fall

when I fall

I wait for just one touch

and I fall

Weightless, endless, faithless, I'll adore you.

A single touch before I fade.

Painless let me pass through.

Weightless, endless, faithless, I'll adore you.

A single touch before I fade.

Painless let me pass through.