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pH Low by AFI

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AFI

pH Low

Release date: 11th November 1997

From Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes
Track 4
1:42
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'pH Low' by AFI is a 1997 rock track from the album 'Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes'. The lyrics are a stark, accusatory set of questions and imperatives, turning on the idea of language and ambition being drained, poisoned, and replaced with a nightmare. It moves between threat and pleading, with lines that press the listener to consider whether you will die or live for someone else, and whether aspirations should be killed off in favour of an enforced dream. One fragment captures the speed of that collapse, “So quickly draining away”.

"pH Low" is a track by AFI, from the album Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes, released 11th November 1997. The track is 1:42 long. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about AFI.

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Lyrics

pH Low

So quickly draining away
If you could only hear all the things you used to say
Consumed now by what you knew was poisonous
Quenching your thirst for life, for life

Will you die, die for me?
Will you live, live for me?

Kill aspirations away
Embrace a dream that was a nightmare only yesterday
True friends forgotten and all hope's been traded in
You gave it all for what, for what?

Will you die, die for me?
Will you live, live for me?

Die for me, you gave it all away
Live for me, you gave it all away
All at once, you gave it all away
All is lost

Will you die, die for me?
(Die for me)
Will you live, live for me?
(Die for me)
Will you die, die for me?
(Die for me)
Will you live, live for me?
All is lost
Lost

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From Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes

1:421997
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Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes
Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes
AFI
11th November 1997
Track number
4
Release year
1997
  1. 1Keeping Out of Direct Sunlight (An Introduction)
    0:58
  2. 2Three Reasons
    1:34
  3. 3A Single Second
    2:12
  4. 4pH Low
    1:42
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