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AFI – Synesthesia (2003) | Track profile | Dork

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Synesthesia

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Synesthesia

Release date: 11th March 2003

From Sing the Sorrow

Adult Alternative

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About This Track

'Synesthesia' by AFI is a 2003 rock track from the album 'Sing the Sorrow'. The lyrics are steeped in heartbreak, lingering on the persistence of memories and the ache of being defined by past joy and pain. There is a pleading, haunted intimacy to the words, as the speaker asks to be present in small, sensory ways, from floating feelings to scent and “letters of past”. The title’s promise of cross-wired sensation suits the central idea: emotion turning into atmosphere, and loss taking up residence in ordinary places.

"Synesthesia" is a track by AFI, from the album Sing the Sorrow, released 11th March 2003. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about AFI.

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Lyrics

Synesthesia

Heartbreak incarnate

I'm nothing if not your memories

Heartbreak, please let me be

Your joy and your pain

Someday I will be

I'll be those common words spoken uniquely

Because I may, will forever be

Floating as you feel

Please let me haunt as scent on your pillow

Letters of past all tear-stained and wrinkled

Please let me haunt as scent on your pillow

Letters of past all tear-stained and wrinkled

Just say, say you will follow me

Follow me, invite me to your memory

Just sing, sing again follow me

Follow me, that long forgotten song

Heartbreak incarnate

I'm nothing if not your memories

Heartbreak, please let me be

Your joy and your pain

Someday I will be

I'll be that waking warmth from a fading dream

Because I will, I may at best

Float as you feel

Please let me haunt as scent on your pillow

Letters of past look distant and wrinkled

Please let me haunt as scent on your pillow

Letters of past look distant and wrinkled

Just say, say you will follow me

Follow me, invite me to your memory

Just sing, sing again follow me

Follow me, that long forgotten song

Let me be all the words

Let me be all the words

Let me be all the words

Let me be all the words

Let me be all the words echoing comfort

Let me be all the words that you'd unsay

Let me be all the words echoing comfort, comfort, comfort, comfort

Let me be all the words that you'd unsay, unsay, unsay, unsay

Let me be all the words echoing comfort

Let me be all the words that you'd unsay

Let me be all the words echoing comfort, comfort, comfort

Let me be all the words that you'd unsay, unsay, unsay, unsay

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Track details

From Sing the Sorrow

2003

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Album

Sing the Sorrow

10th March 2003

Release year

2003

1Miseria Cantare - The Beginning
2:58
2The Leaving Song Pt. II
3:31
3Bleed Black
4:15
4Silver And Cold
4:10
5Dancing Through Sunday
2:27
6Girl's Not Grey
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7Death Of Seasons
4:00
8The Great Disappointment
5:27
9Paper Airplanes (Makeshift Wings)
3:58
10This Celluloid Dream
4:10
11The Leaving Song
2:44
12.....But Home Is Nowhere / The Spoken Word / This Time Imperfect
13Synthesthesia (Non)
3:31
14Now The World (Non)
15:19
—The Spoken Word
—Synesthesia

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