A list of uncommon words used in
AFI's lyrics and their meanings
Answer That And Stay Fashionable
Answer That And Stay Fashionable
Two Of A Kind
Torrential - of the nature of, or suggestive of,
a torrent. Torrent - 1. a violent and rapid stream, as of water.
2. a heavy fall of rain. 3. a strong current, rising suddenly and
rushing rapidly along. (Showered by torrential praise.)
Avail - to be of use, value, service, or advantage. (Attempts to leave yield no avail.)
The Mother In Me
Paradigm - 1. an example or model. 2. in
Grammar, an example of the inflections of a word. (A paradigm
of illness is the beast I have become.)
Self Pity
Disdain - to think unworthy; look upon with contempt
or scorn. (The only traits I show are depression and disdain.)
Key Lime Pie
Inept - 1. unsuitable; unfit. 2. nonsensical;
foolish. 3. clumsy; inefficient. (Your green filling make me
inept.)
Theory Of Revolution
Affluence - 1. an abundante supply; abundance.
2. riches; wealth. (If you want to buy affluence, your soul
you'll have to pay.)
This Secret Ninja
Feigned - pretended; sham. (I'll be out of
style, I'll be discarded with the warmth you once feigned.)
Charles Atlas
Passé - 1. outmoded. 2. old.
(So passé, too many times, but you're hollow at the core.)
Two Of A Kind
Torrential - of the nature of, or suggestive of,
a torrent. Torrent - 1. a violent and rapid stream, as of water.
2. a heavy fall of rain. 3. a strong current, rising suddenly and
rushing rapidly along. (Showered by torrential praise.)
Avail - to be of use, value, service, or advantage. (Attempts to leave yield no avail.)
Shatty Fatmas
Faux Pas - A social blunder; tactless behavior.
(Your information's fucking faux.)
Cajz - (You try to cajz everyday, I wish
that you would go away.)
Shut Your Mouth And Open Your Eyes
Let It Be Broke
Complacent - 1. satisfied or smug. 2. affable.
(I live in truth, complacently.)
Third Season
Mirth - noisy gaiety, enjoyment, or merriment,
especially when expressed by laughter. (And I say I'll give you nothing
but a mirthless laugh.)
The New Patrons Saints And Angels
Vivacious - lively; gay. (So positive, and your
heart you freely give, long lost vivacity.)
Three Seconds Notice
Accede - 1. to come or attain. 2. to agree
or yield. (As I accede.)
Callous - 1. hardened. 2. unfeeling; insensitive. (Such callousness, yet I persist.)
Triple Zero
Seethe - 1. to cook by boiling. 2. to be
greatly disturbed. (Seething, keeping me alive.)
Sustenance - 1. the act of sustaining [to hold up
or support]. 2. the state of being sustained. 3. a way of earning
one's living. 4. that which supports life; food. (A sustenance
keeping me true.)
3 1/2
Fester - 1. to form pus. 2. to cause ulceration.
3. to rankle [to fill with, undergo, or produce rancor, seething resentment,
etc.]: a small sore containing pus. (Open wounds in the palms of
my hands,
festering through infections time.)
Porphyria Cutanea Tarda
Porphyria Cutanea Tarda -
Exsanguination
Exsanguination -
Malleus Maleficarum
Malleus Maleficarum -
Clove Smoke Catharsis
Catharsis - 1. purgation [the act of purging or
purifying], especially of the bowels. 2. salutary outpouring or relief
of the emotions. (Clove Smoke Catharsis)
Vantage - 1. an advantageous position. 2. a position providing a wide or comprehensive overlook or perspective. (From above comes a faint smile, a new vantage such a view.)
The Prayer Position
Permissible - that may be permitted. (Tradition
ingrained, now impermissible.)
No Poetic Device
Lucid - 1. clear; readily understood. 2.
shining. 3. transparent. 4. sane. (I've been dreaming, I've
been dreaming I was lucid.)
God Called In Sick Today
Filigree - ornamental work resembling delicate
lace, made of intertwined gold, silver, etc. wire. (Murderous filigree.)
Amend - 1. to free from fault; correct. 2. to improve. 3. to change. (Let's amend the classic story, close it so beautifully.)
Omnipotent - having unlimited power; all-powerful. (Omnipotence, nurturing malevolence.)
Malevolent - wishing evil or harm; rejoicing at
the misfortune of others. (Omnipotence, nurturing malevolence.)
The Boy Who Destroyed The World
Dissipate - 1. to disappear. 2. to indulge
oneself excessively in pleasures. (They said it hurt their eyes, but he
would never know that they were filled with regret as their own dissipated.)
The Nephilim
Arsenic - a very poisonous, brittle chemical element
of steel-grey color. (Arsenic for the girls and boys.)
Coy - 1. shy; demure. 2. pretending to be shy. (Drink the madness, smoke so coy.)
Ever And A Day
Calamity - 1. any cause that produces evil, disaster,
or extreme misfortune. 2. heavy affliction. (Lie in the comfort of
sweet calamity with nothing left to lose.)
Smile
Enmity - animosity; hatred; hostility; ill will.
(Overwhelmed with a deep repulsion for sights seen so commonly, now I have
come to be the walking enmity.)
Assimilate - 1. to bring into conformity or agreement with something else. 2. to absorb into the body; convert or incorporate into organic substance. (Assimilate into a culture of post morality...)
A Story At Three
Wry - 1. distorted. 2. twisted; turned to
one side. 3. perverse. 4. showing distaste, disgust, impatience,
etc. 5. ironic, sardonic, etc. (We are the wakeful, wry, and
watchful.)
Elegy - 1. a funeral song; dirge; requiem. 2. a song or poem in a mournful style. (I hear the morning choir sing to me their elegy.)
Requiem - in the Roman Catholic Church, 1. a Mass for the repose of the soul of a deceased person. 2. a musical setting for this. (I hear the morning choir sing to me their elegy. Requiem.)
Catch A Hot One
Sovereignty - 1. the quality or state of being
superior to all others. 2. a supreme state or group. (I saw it stay
in sovereignty.)
The Leaving Song Pt. II
Yo he estado aqui muchas veces antes y regreso
- I've been here many times before and I return.
Y regreso aqui otra vez y comienzo - And I return here and begin again.
Bleed Black
Alleviate - 1. to lighten; lessen; mitigate.
2. to reduce; decrease. (It will alleviate and elevate me.)
Silver And Cold
Somber - (You, in somber resplendence, I
hold.)
Resplendence - (You, in somber resplendence, I hold.)
Rapturous - (As a rapturous voice escapes, I will tremble a prayer and I'll beg for forgiveness.)
Dancing Through Sunday
Swooning - (Swooning, I am swept away.)
Girl's Not Grey
Imbrued - (What follows me as the whitest lace
of light just begs to be imbrued?)
Death Of Seasons
Writhing - (Writhing with sickness, thrown
into banality, I decay.)
Banal - commonplace; trite; dull. (Writhing with sickness, thrown into banality, I decay.)
Malignant - (Out there so quickly grows malignant tribes.)
The Great Disappointment
Chrysanthemum - 1. any of a genus of plants that
bloom in the fall and that have showy flowers in many shades of yellow,
red, purple, and white. 2. a flower of such a plant. (Chrysanthemums
of white, they seemed so beautiful.)
Amaranth - 1. any of a number of plants with brightly colored leaves and, sometimes, showy flowers. 2. an imaginary, unfading flower. 3. magenta; purplish red. (I searched for the amaranth.)
Effigy - (Inside a crumbling effigy, but you promised.)
Paper Airplanes (Makeshift Wings)
Monolithic - (Raise high monolithic statues.)
Anathema - 1. the curse accompanying excommunication. 2. any curse or imprecation. 3. a thing or person accursed. 4. any abhorred person or thing. (Anathema I will remain, forever will remain.)
Pantomime - 1. a drama presented by gesture without speech. 2. gesture without speech. 3. in England, a Christmas-time theatrical entertainment. (Just as long as no one ever knows all motion is pantomime.)
...But Home Is Nowhere
Intimate - (Twenty-six years and seems like I've
just begun to understand my... my intimate is no one.)
Discarnate - (Discarnate. Preternatural.)
Preternatural - beyond what is ordinary and natural,
but not supernatural; abnormal; strange. 2. same as supernatural.
(Discarnate. Preternatural.)
Who Knew? (Black Sails EP)
Indelibly - (Every single notion burned indelibly.)
Transference (No Time To Kill Comp.)
Faltered - (Pride has faltered and left
you crawling.)
Purge - 1. to cleanse or free from impurities, foreign matter, etc. 2. to rid of sin, guilt, or ceremonial defilement. 3. to rid of persons regarded as undesirable. (So appalled as I watch you purge now see if your fiction reads salvation.)
A Winter's Tale (Days Of The Phoenix EP)
Immaculate - (Immaculate. Inanimate.)
Inanimate - (Immaculate. Inanimate.)
Perambulate - to walk over, around, etc., especially in inspecting; to stroll. (I perambulate, somnambulant.)
Somnambulant - (I perambulate, somnambulant.)
Now The World (336 10" Picture Disc)
Excoriation - (I wanted this excoriation.)
Reivers' Music (336 10" Picture Disc)
Enamored - (All the while we know those enamored
never miss us... because we are all now in dying days.)
Wraith - (With all the wraiths for all these
years.)