AFI - 100 Words Lyrics

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, 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

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

So what can help me to understand somehow
Why it always pains me to breathe?
Pains me to breathe?

We're no longer confined
Because yesterday I, I burnt the sky
We're no longer confined
Because yesterday I, I burnt the sky

Yesterday I burnt the sky
Looked to the ground and wrapped it around me
Still today I have so much to burn
To burn, to burn

Yesterday I longed to die
Fell to the ground and the ground caught me
Now today I question why I fell
I fell, I fell, I fell, because yesterday I