The Despair Factor

By AFI

On The Art of Drowning

Released on September 19, 2000

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[Verse 1: Davey Havok & Hunter Burgan ]

Along the path where the stream is talking

I breathe the mist and continue walking

The wood, it whispers in a language of its 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 ( own )


[Chorus: Davey Havok & Jade Puget ]

Waiting by the stairs

Waiting, I despair

Waiting, I despair

Waiting by the stairs


[Post-Chorus: Davey Havok]

My whole life is a dark room

One, big, dark room


[Verse 2: Davey Havok & Hunter Burgan ]

Do I hear the hollow sound?

Footsteps resounding on this frozen ground

Or the familiar disappointment of the echoes of my own? ( own )


[Chorus: Davey Havok & Jade Puget ]

Waiting by the stairs

Waiting, I despair

Waiting, I despair

Waiting by the stairs

Waiting by the stairs

Waiting, I despair

Waiting, I despair

Waiting by the stairs


[Bridge: Davey Havok]

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


[Outro: Davey Havok with Jade Puget & Hunter Burgan ]

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

“My whole life is a dark room One, big, dark room”
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This is a line originally said by Winona Ryder’s character in the 1988 film “Beetlejuice”