100 Words - AFI

This is the final night, boys

We are the cracks in diamond walls

I tried to illuminate but the shadows kill

I’m overshadowed.

See how I blend in with nothing?

Now beautiful boys, let’s destroy

We’ll shine as the lucite breaks and falls

Raise the new glitter god with the golden tears — the tears that swallow

A smile that’s touched so warms nothing

Yesterday I burnt the sky, looked to the ground and wrapped it around me

Still today I have so much to burn

Yesterday I longed to die, fell to the ground, and the ground caught me

Now today I question why I fell

Deities fell to decoys, tainting what’s pure

Let’s cleanse them all

Infinite life reclaimed, as the shadows kill they are overshadowed

We’ll burn as they fade into nothing

So what can help me to understand, somehow, why it always pains me to breathe?

We’re no longer confined because yesterday I burnt the sky