AFI - ...But Home is Nowhere
From the Album "Sing the Sorrow"
Tabber: Andrew Watson (Scourge)
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Riff 1:
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/ / keep repeating both these
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very very easy stuff!
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Valenteen Lead Player |
#1 by Valenteen Valkorados at Sep 26, 2007 at 6:19 AM EST |
| sorry... i forgot this part he hates being the only one in his position, and he hates the fact that hes the only one who can see life like that and cannot understand our life view ( I LAY STREWN ACROSS THE FLOOR CANT SOLVE THIS PUZZLE EVRYDAY ANOTHER SMALL PIECE CANT BE FOUND, PIECED UP IN SORROW THE PIECES DONT MATCH THE PIECES DONT FIT.....) see he thinks hes the only one to see life like he does | |
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Zane Rhythm Player |
#2 by Zane Bardarson at Sep 26, 2007 at 6:53 AM EST |
| hmm, well im gonna let ya know what this song in part means to me, its different than what anyone else has said, so it might sound really dumb. but it seems to me that davey is talking about how yea, he feels alone and disconnected, but that it is also that he is searching for something he cant find, a missing part of himself. well thats just my opinion so.. | |
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Josh Rhythm Player |
#3 by Josh Schleter at Sep 26, 2007 at 7:21 AM EST |
| Davey Havok--ya know, the guy who wrote this song-- is a huge fan of the Cure. Listen to the Cure song "In your House." The Cure commented on their song "In your House": feeling uncomfortable in someone else's presence, but still always returning ..... It's about uncertainity in love, our knowledge that what we are doing is destroying our personal lives...you keep saying, "Oh, we'll just do this tour, go to America and then it'll be alright." But if it falls flat then you can be left with nothing and always be bitter about it. It can destroy your life. Both "In your House" and "...but home is nowhere" have to do with touring. Davey has been in AFI since he was 16, he was 26 when Sing the Sorrow was released. He's been touring with AFI for a very long time, and so where his LITERAL HOME is--doesn't exit, because he's been touring so much. | |
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Ben Wanna Be |
#4 by Ben Porter at Sep 26, 2007 at 8:47 PM EST |
| Hehe thanks, but honestly it wasn't me that figured out all that astrology stuff - someone else wrote a big, big explanation of it all somewhere else. I just added a few ideas of my own in there (about the song order, etc). NateDogg - that's really cool, I've never thought of things like that before. That birds thing makes my head hurt because I can understand it...but can't. | |
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COBHC Average |
#5 by COBHC at Sep 27, 2007 at 8:27 AM EST |
| I agree with Panic Punk. Seems like Davey is unable to accept his emptiness. | |
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Corey Wanna Be |
#6 by Corey at Sep 28, 2007 at 4:38 AM EST |
| Manxbass, you're absolutely wicked, honestly, you're one ov the few people that grasp the meaning behind STS and one ov the fewer ov those few that figured it out on their own! I applaud you! | |
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Charley Wanna Be |
#7 by Charley Dawe at Sep 28, 2007 at 8:21 AM EST |
| Think this song is about how he was content with how his life was, but then everything he knew changed without him, thus this 'show' is a metaphore, more or less, for his life. Anyone know what that thing was between this song and "This Time Immortal," i expected it to be with this song because it wasn't given a title. | |
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inaki Wanna Be |
#8 by inaki laris at Sep 28, 2007 at 3:19 PM EST |
| Wow, all that sign of the rabbit shit is pretty cool. Now I'm going to be trying to make connections everytime anyone mentions em. craziness. Yeah, this song is one of my favorite songs on the album. Like a friend of mine once said, this song is what AFI is all about. I think by now everyone has a pretty defined view of what the song is about so, I guess I'll just leave it at that. | |
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Neal Wanna Be |
#9 by Neal McMorrow at Sep 28, 2007 at 9:39 PM EST |
| as we listen and understand what his songs say we become no one, i have always felt this way and was glad i found AFI (or it found me). this song and death of seasons realy strike a cord with me and my torn soul sings with them. | |
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Ganondorf Average |
#10 by Ganondorf Dragmire at Sep 29, 2007 at 4:04 AM EST |
| I agree with everyone, this song is incredible. It's so epic and heartfelt, you can just see Davey screaming into the mic, trying to stop his lungs from falling out. Killer breakdown too. I really have no idea about the meaning of the song, apart from the obvious stuff. Like Davey maybe feels alone and disconnected from the world. This line in particular made me think this, "Twenty-six years end, still speaking in these tongues. Such revelations while understood by no one" To me that clearly suggests that Davey has been writing lyrics and singing these songs, revealing so many things that are close to him - stories and emotions, yet they are understood by no-one as he never discloses the meaning of his songs. But then I can't make sense of the rest of the song.. Of course, with the whole 336/337 phenomenon, it could have a completely different meaning. If you haven't been a regular member of the AFI message boards over the past 2 years, there is no chance you'll understand, unless someone has a lot of patience to type it all out. For God's sake I'll have a go at writing a brief history of it. It basically all has to do with Chinese esoteric astrology, and the fact that Davey was born under the chinese symbol of the rabbit, meaning that he can't be reincarnated in death. It all started when the band and the webmaster started giving us all these clues, then the picture disk "336" came out and we were told to research esoteric astrology to understand what it meant. Soon lots of references to rabbits were being made (rabbits are roadkill in the STS booklet, in the GNG video, small pics on the website, Davey making eerie comments about rabbits on the message board, rabbit in the Clandestine video). Soon, Gavin (the webmaster) told us the real thing to worry about was 337, and that 336 was just "what comes before". We learned that 336 means death in esoteric astrology, and 337 means reincarnation. So, after extensive research by particular members of the boards, we found that Davey was born in the year of the rabbit, and these "rabbits" can not be reincarnated. We think the album has to do with this theory somehow. We also started looking at the order of songs on the album, going into HUGE amounts of detail. Some of us think that maybe the album represents a life cycle, in my opinion starting with Bleed Black and ending with The Leaving Song Pt 2 (thus explaining the reversed order of the Leaving Songs). I can't remember it all (I wrote it all out so long ago) but Bleed Black was the birth, or the beginning of this story, and Leaving Song Pt 2 was the extinction of the self (as the reincarnation was not possible). This possible explains why the song ends so abruptly with Davey screaming and one montone note carrying on, but that's getting a bit too vague.. Oh yeah one more thing about this whole theory - it's supported by the fact that the sounds at the very start of the album (before Miseria Cantare) and right at the end (after This Time Imperfect) are the same. Played back to back it's as if there has been no pause. That's about it. Requires some deep thinking heh. | |
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Cocoboi Average |
#11 by Cocoboi Sisouphone at Sep 29, 2007 at 6:03 AM EST |
| i think this song is very personal to davey, i actually believe that he had somethig to do with like a play, but buttom line is that the change he has experienced from being however he was to being what he is today has made him vulnerable to the world, he thinks he is the only one ( I REMAIN ALONE, UNGRANTED IN DEAD TIME LEFT ME DISOWNED) hes better than us or at least has a better appretiation of life, just like we all should, thats why i do not like suicidals, i love myself and my life as well as everyone should, so that is what i think davey is tryin to say | |
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austin Average |
#12 by austin pancner at Sep 29, 2007 at 4:02 PM EST |
| I'm just pretty sure that when I'm listening to this cd and it comes to this song, I fucking am loving it. | |
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Punk Rock Princ Wanna Be |
#13 by Punk Rock Princess at Sep 29, 2007 at 7:41 PM EST |
| I love this song...I love AFI...sigh...You know what REALLY sucks though? Getting tickets to what was going to be an amazing show, AFI and Thrice and Thursday, only to have AFI cancel because Davey was having problems with his throat...arggg. | |
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paddy Average |
#14 by paddy coscoran at Sep 30, 2007 at 4:32 AM EST |
| I think this is what Davey fells in his head eveyday just put onto paper tha song dose rock tho i really dont get the middle part with the piano but i love the song after so i noirmally just fastforward though it but i'd really like to understand what that is all bout | |
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Jamie Wanna Be |
#15 by Jamie Smith at Sep 30, 2007 at 8:37 AM EST |
| To me this song is simply about being at a point in your life that you hate and you can't get out of. You know the "point" that Davy has been at his whole life. He compares his life to a sit-com on tv, and how he's unhappy with all that is going on, but sadly he feels he can do nothing about it. | |
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Jordan Average |
#16 by Jordan S. at Oct 1, 2007 at 7:17 AM EST |
| imperfect, sry | |
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David Average |
#17 by David Tims at Oct 1, 2007 at 9:34 PM EST |
| I lay strewn across the floor, can't solve this puzzle Everyday another small piece can't be found I lay strewn across the floor, pieced up in sorrow The pieces are lost, these pieces don't fit Pieced together incomplete and empty wow. WOW. amazing. he's been around for 26 years and he still feels as empty and alone as the day he was born, in fact he feels MORE empty and alone as time goes by. | |
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Shotgun Average |
#18 by Shotgun Joe at Oct 3, 2007 at 12:27 AM EST |
| I think this song is about Davey as he sees himself, his life and development. The way he feels as a complete outcast, as a person who cannot really relate to anyone and feels like a total different species from the one he "belongs to" when he comes to think about it. The development I’m referring to is he doesn’t only feel this way different when he thinks about it anymore, it’s become a permanent feeling, something sticking to him he will never get rid off again and he knows so. This is my main idea about “…But Home is Nowhere”, Davey as a being condemned to suffer from his urge to complete himself knowing he will never reach his goal. It’s about him as an icomplete person not being able to totally accept this. (“I lay strewn across the floor, can’t solve this puzzle, every day another small piece can’t be found”). He tries to find the missing match every day again and again and just cannott stop it, but he feels if he was able to it would mean a huge relief to him. But this makes him turn even more torn, incomplete and put together by pieces which don’t fit at all. Like he is an impossible mixture, like an experiment which cannot work and is designed to fail. He realized that this is what he is, he will never change and he has to live with it (or not live at all). Nobody can take this away from him, even if he found eternal love, his soulmate or whatever, this is eternal( “this is my line, this is eternal”). He realizes that this is him (“my line”) but the bigger part of him tries to fight himself, to change him, tries to do what is impossible, although he is aware of it. This is why he will never be completely happy, satisfied or complete in any way. Might also be that this incomplete feeling is caused by his surrounding, the people, who think he is ‘wrong’ and try to complete him but do not find the lost pieces (this might be why he’s speaking in passive “every day another small piece can’t be found”), but I do’t think so. It could be a mixture of both, though… All this and more of course has revealed to him by now, somehow it does all make sense to him, in a logical way, but he is trapped or more likely lost in his own world so bad no one can get a clue of what it feels like to be him, what he feels, thinks, the way he thinks and so on. Others just think he’s gone mad, because they don’t understand him, so it’s like he’s spaking in tongues,if they dare to listen to him at all (“still speaking in these tongues”). It makes him feel different from all of these people of course because they make him feel he’s speaking another language or thinking in another language which nobody else knows(“while understood by no one”). So his prayers just disappear, nobody hears him, listens to him, can help him getting this feeling off of him. When he sings about how “they cut the cast, the music, and the lights” it is very clear, I think, that his isolated position he was put into by the people not understanding him, not seeing him as a human being of the same value as everyone of them, maybe not seeing him as a human being at all, tortures him and causes a feeling of having to live a life with less opportunities, less joy, just less of everything “they” have. He could also see it in such a way as god or the highest power decided he has to live without this, it depends on if you do believe in the existence of god or not. It’s possible by combining, like god causes nobody is understanding him, wanted it to be like this, you know… So, I guess that’s enough for now, although I could go on like this for ages…maybe I should structure this, but you might have gotten my clue anyway, if you were patient enough to read all of this…err, and one thing: english’s not my native langugae, so don’t bother any kinds of mistakes…hopefully I don’t repeat myself too often… | |
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Dylan Average |
#19 by Dylan Johnstone at Oct 3, 2007 at 5:06 AM EST |
| damn, how could you fast forward through this song, its probably the best track on this cd. the chorus is simply amazing | |
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Sam Wanna Be |
#20 by Sam Gageler at Oct 3, 2007 at 5:21 AM EST |
| the bass on this song is fucking fantastic | |
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Alan Average |
#21 by Alan Gunderson at Oct 3, 2007 at 10:59 AM EST |
| yeah i agree with panickid about what this song means, i dunno i think this is just such a wicked song and the lyrics are amazing Ungranted in dead time left me disowned To this nature, so unnatural I remain alone | |
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dylan Average |
#22 by dylan pesino at Oct 3, 2007 at 6:42 PM EST |
| Manxbass that was awesome. In my college english class this semester we did this thing with poetry where we plugged verbs and nouns in some order that made sense but didnt at the same time. for example "the birds are boiling in." i think the middle part of this song is done like this. the idea of that nonsense is that the verbs and nouns that you plug in are all subconscious, so when your done you have a very unique and subconscious poem. | |
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Mike Average |
#23 by Mike Perron at Oct 4, 2007 at 7:27 PM EST |
| Brilliant. If you're right, that just makes me like AFI about 100% more...and that's saying a lot. | |
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sidvic Average |
#24 by sidvic at Oct 5, 2007 at 3:48 AM EST |
| He says what everyone feels at one time or another. Your own thoughts are unique only to yourself. For instance if I sit a drinking glass in front of all of you...everyone will see it differently. He throws in some despair and isolation..and voila! the perfect AFI song. I will say this...I dont always understand the exact meanings of his songs...but I can FEEL the meanings. It is impossible to verbalize pain exactly. 1 2 3 4 5 Next | |
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Luke Average |
#25 by Luke Kilpatrick at Oct 5, 2007 at 5:12 AM EST |
| The first two lines sum up this song perfectly. He's looking for love but just feel alone. | |
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