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The Despair Factor by AFI

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AFI

The Despair Factor

Release date: 24th September 2000

From The Art of Drowning
Track 13
3:55
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About This Track

'The Despair Factor' by AFI is a 2000 rock track from 'The Art of Drowning'. The lyrics place a solitary speaker walking along a stream, absorbing an eerie, half-voiced landscape, with a breathy, resigned mood that turns on the repeated idea of waiting by the stairs and despairing. The scene feels intimate and claustrophobic, as if the air itself is talking back, culminating in the stark line, 'Waiting, I despair'.

"The Despair Factor" is a track by AFI, from the album The Art of Drowning, released 24th September 2000. The track is 3:55 long. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about AFI.

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Lyrics

The Despair Factor

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

Waiting by the stairs
Waiting, I despair
Waiting, I despair
Waiting by the stairs

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, I despair
Waiting by the stairs

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

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Track details

From The Art of Drowning

3:552000
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Album
The Art of Drowning
The Art of Drowning
AFI
25th September 2000
Track number
13
Release year
2000
  1. 1Initiation
    0:39
  2. 2The Lost Souls
    2:43
  3. 3The Nephilim
    2:35
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