AFI Lyrics - "Miss Murder"
 

Got a question for all AFI fans!

I seriously dig their song "Miss Murder" but I have no flippin idea what the lyrics mean. Every band has a hidden meaning in their songs, but this one is either so well disguised or so blatently obvious that I can't figure it out. Part of me thinks it's an anti-Christ message, but then again it could be a song about a bad childhood too. Hell, I have no idea. Does anyone out there understand what they are talking about? I've posted them below.

...And what is the deal with the black rabbits in the video? :confused:

...And what is the deal with Davey's Hair? :confused:
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"Miss Murder"

Hey Miss Murder can I?
Hey Miss Murder can I?
Make beauty stay if I,
Take my life?

Whoa-oh-ohh

With just a look they shook
And heavens bowed before him.
Simply a look can break your heart.
The stars that pierce the sky;
He left them all behind.
We’re left to wonder why
He left us all behind.

Hey Miss Murder can I?
Hey Miss Murder can I?
Make beauty stay if I,
Take my life?
Whoa-oh-ohh
(ohh)

Dreams of his crash won’t pass
Oh, how they all adored him
Beauty will last when spiraled down.
The stars that mystify
He left them all behind.
And how his children cried
He left us all behind.

Hey Miss Murder can I?
Hey Miss Murder can I?
Make beauty stay if I,
Take my life?
Whoa-oh-ohh

What's the hook, the twist
Within this verbose mystery?
I would gladly bet my life upon it.
That the ghost you love, your ray of light
Will fizzle out without hope.
We're the empty set just floating through, wrapped in skin
Ever searching for what we were promised.
Reaching for that golden ring we'd never let go,
but who would ever let us put put our filthy hands upon it?

Hey Miss Murder can I?
Hey Miss Murder can I?
Make beauty stay if I,
Take my life?
Whoa-oh-ohh

Hey Miss Murder can I?
Hey Miss Murder can I?
Make beauty stay if I,
Take my life?
Whoa-oh-ohh

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*Rhythm moves the body, but good music moves the soul*:hphones:
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I've never been GREAT with lyrics. But it just seems like a message of emptiness and eventual suicide. Like "this is now, this is beauty, if I end it now, THIS is how they'll remember me."

I'm probably wrong, feel free to school me, anyone.

It's abuot beauty and how it's overrated.
or so it would appear.

Well there's supposed to be a hidden message in the album when you listen to Prelude 12/21 on a CD player you can rewind it too behind 0 seconds and it's got a hidden tune and on the AFI forums my brother said that they said there was a hidden message in the album. But as for the lyrics... I dunno.

And your other questions on the cover of the album it has three black rabbits so that might explain it...

^ Hey I heard that message(Got up and listened right when he read the post. I won't tell anyone what it is, they'll jsut have to get up and see for themselves.

Anyways, it's a great song, I think it expresses alot of things, beauty being one of them.

I cannot answer this question but I know one thing, it started a trend because I went to an AFI concert not too long ago and I saw lots of people with that hair style, lemme tell ya alot of weird people go to concerts nowadays.

Lol..new AFI..ahahaha.. hidden messages, its probably like go feck yourself or anything , if you want hidden emssages try to crack the pink floyd code thing majig.

...i thought it was about aids...

It almost sounds like an anit-Christ message..."With just a look they shook and the heavens bowed before him"....then the second verse is "dreams of his crash won't pass and how they all adored him" which sounds like the crucifixion except it is said that they were all against him in the Bible. And the last stanza can be imagined to think it is about how Christ presents eternal bliss but we are not worty of anything he has to offer. And yet I am still not sure that this is even a worthy interpretation because it contradicts itself. AFI is a smart band and doesn't just make awesome music, their songs are all thought out to relay a message....Just what the heck is the message?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? I don't care if the message is all people are alien decendants and we will all be butt-diddled by them someday....Wait, isn;t that the Scientology meaning of life? HAHAHAHAHAHA

I'd say it was about someone contemplating suicide...after the death of a loved one.

Asking if they'll still be beautiful in Miss Murder's eyes if they kill themselves maybe?