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Title	Miseria Cantare (The Beginning)
Artist	AFI
Album	Sing the Sorrow (2003) , Track 1
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Send "Miseria Cantare (The Beginning)" ringtones to your cell

Love your hate.
Your faith lost.
You are now one of us.

Love your hate.
Your faith lost.
You are now one of us.

Nothing from nowhere, I'm no one at all.
Radiate. Recongnize one slient call
as we all form one dark flame.
Incinerate.

Nothing from nowhere, I'm no one at all.
Radiate. Recongnize one slient call
as we all form one dark flame.
As we all form one dark flame.
As we all...

Love your hate.
Your faith lost.
You are now one of us.

Love your hate.
Your faith lost.
You are now one
One of us

Send "Miseria Cantare (The Beginning)" ringtones to your cell

lyrics submitted by DAN

lyrics corrected by dream_a_little on 10-07-2007

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13-06-2004 03:18 evilbrastrap
27 posts	I like this song too...kinda short but still good And i like the part Nothing from nowhere im no one at all...now that is my quote
16-06-2004 07:44 MourningStar
633 posts	I love how AFI has little 'beginning' songs. It kind of begins the CD. Though, it is believed this is not the first song on Sing the Sorrow and that the cd is 'out of order', so to speak. It's quite interesting..
17-06-2004 22:07 evilbrastrap
27 posts	Sing the Sorrow is a very interesting cd. If you like AFI, and you have Sing the Sorrow, you should read this. Actually, it has lots of things you'll never know if you don't read this. Okay, before this album came out, they released a 10" disk, and called it "336". No one could figure out why, and it was a bit of a secret. All they would really tell us was that when Sing the Sorrow came out, it would all be made clear. Well, they dropped some hints in the meantime. One time while upgrading the messageboard, they left links to astrology, numerology, and the ummm.... I think the chinese zodiac? Another time, a hint was dropped... they said that "336" wasn't really important.. it was just "what comes before." It came before Sing the Sorrow. Meaning that STS was "337." And we really had to figure out what 337 meant. Also, there were the rabbits. They had posters and stuff with rabbits on them. And other weird mentions of rabbits. In the liner notes from STS, it says, "Rabbits are roadkill." So Sing the Sorrow came out, and no one could figure it out. Then their short film, "Clandestine" came out. It had the cd, the dvd short film, and a 60 page little hardcover book, which was like a big colored version of the cd booklet. Thw whole style is of faded, worn pages. The pages are old and stained... brownish stains.. But as you flip through the book, you begin to realize that some of the stains and smudges are actually red. All of the stains are actually blood, and dried blood. (I haven't seen the film in a long time, so I might have a few details wrong.) Now, in the film, it starts with Hunter holding a box with the Sing the Sorrow logo on it, running through the forest. He looks at a paper, and keeps running. The paper gets dropped, and you see that it says Room 37 at 3:33. He runs into a classroom full of kids. The board says, "nothing from nowhere." Then you see Adam playing cards. The box is on the table (in the pot), along with a watch, keys, a magnifying glass, a bottle of dark fluid, a white chrysanthemum, and a live rabbit. Adam has 336 in his hand. He wins, takes the box, and goes to leave, but the box falls apart in his hands. You see that two of the guys at the table have actually smuggled away the real box. It flashes to Dave in a cafe. He is writing in a book (the book that comes with Clandestine... it's like the cd booklet, but better), with the box on the table. A strange woman comes up and kisses him, stealing the box. She leaves, and he goes back to writing. He notices the box is gone, and leaves. It flashes to Jade walking into the classroom, (the board says "I am no one at all." and through another door in the class, which leads him into a house. You see him snooping through the house. Going upstairs, going through drawers, looking behind dressers, etc. He goes into the bathroom, and the tub is filled with a black fluid. He reaches in, and pulls out the box. You see a hand at the door of the bathroom (maybe the hand of the woman from the cafe?), trying to open it. They unlock the door (with the keys from the card table?) Jade jumps into the tub, going down, down into the water. He comes walking out of the water on a beach. He walks across the sand to a small table where all the members sit waiting. He places the box on the table, and they open it. End of film. You never see what is or isn't inside. Throughout the movie, it flashes the clock, which, for every person's scene, is on 3:33, and at the very end, I believe it's 3:37. Now, I have friends that spent forever figuring this out, and I helped some. They looked up esoteric astrology, chinese astrolgy, and numerolgy, among other things. Clandestine means something secret or hidden. Esoteric also means hidden. "Miseria Cantare" is Latin for "Sing the Sorrow." 3 x 37 = 111. I'm not positive, but I hear that 777 represents god, or perfection. In Transference, Dave wrote, "I'm 111 less than perfection." 777 - 111 = 666. Dun dun DUUUUNNN. (P.S., NO, they are in no way devil worshippers. Just for your info.) Also, Three denotes divine perfection; Seven denotes spiritual perfection. In esoteric astrology, 336 represents physical death, and the events leading up to it. There were only 2 songs on the 336 disk. Some of the lyrics of one of the songs say, "We're all now in dying days.... I gave up fighting. I've come to be these halos." 337 represents the act of reincarnation. This is important: In chinese astrology, Dave is a RABBIT. He was born the year of the rabbit. RABBITS CANNOT BE REINCARNATED. Rabbits are on their last life in this world, and do not have another chance. In numerology, Dave's life path number is 3. In some middle eastern philosophy, they say that there are 37 deeds you must do before you can reach nirvana, or peace/heaven, and be done on the wheel of life. The whole cd goes in a circle. The sounds at the end are backwards. They end in the same beat and same key as the beginning of the cd. It's one continuous loop. The music before This Time Imperfect is the same played forward as it is played backward. The front of the album has the symbol of falling leaves. Falling leaves represent death, and returning to the earth. The back of the album has a symbol of water. Water represents rebirth. All of the art for this album has been circles. Another symbol of something repeating, of reincarnation. Also, at the beginning of the film, Hunter is running through the forest (leaves), and at the end, they're on the beach (water). The black fluid in the bathtub relates to "Bleed Black." The chrysanthemum on the card table relates to "The Great Disappointment." It's all crazy. Basically, the whole theme is death and reincarnation, and the fact that he CANNOT reincarnate again. Look at the song lyrics. Although each song as a whole isn't about this, there are specific lines that corroborate this theory. Example: "iscarnate." "Nothing from nowhere, I'm no one at all." Discarnate means being bodiless. Like floating in time and space. Essentially, being... nowhere. Nothing. There are other questions as well, like why are the leaving songs out of order? Well, since the cd is one big circle, we don't believe that it actually begins with Misera Cantare. At the end of Clandestine, there is breathing. Just like at the beginning of Bleed Black. I believe that the album BEGINS with Bleed Black. That would put the song as beginning after Clandestine. There was a theory that the box at the end was just empty. (I forget why.) Well, the first words are, "I am exploring the inside. I find it desolate." So, if it starts with Bleed Black, the breathing at the beginning could represent life. (Being born, perhaps?) That would put the song whose lyrics say, "recreate me," and more importantly, "I know I died that night, and I'll never be brough back to life once again." So, playing that as the first song, and going full circle around the cd, that puts the leaving songs into order, and ends the cd with The Leaving Song Pt II. Now, some people think that Dave "ies" over the course of this cd. Some say that the "eath" (if there is one) occurs during This Time Imperfect. That would make sense that Miseria Cantare would be the beginning... from nowhere. Bodiless... Then comes The Leaving Song Pt II, whose very first lyrics say, "on't waste your touch, you won't feel anything." The spanish in the song says, ""Yo he estado aquí muchas veces antes y regreso" ("I have been here many times before and I return"; "Y regreso aquí otra vez y comenzo" ("So I return here once again and I begin". Like being reborn. The circle of birth and death and rebirth. "I saw its birth. I watched it grow...." Also the fact that the poem is read as in the 3 stages of life. Like he is aging through it. So yeah, it's pretty creepy. That's most of it. There are other small things, like, "Rabbits are roadkill," and then there's the sound of a vehicle accelerating through the rain at the beginning of Silver and Cold. There is also a very small, very blacked out picture of what looks to be a truck or something (maybe the vehicle?) in the book. All sorts of details
21-06-2004 21:25 EverxAndxAxDay
13 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal OH MY GOD. evilbrastrap, you are my hero. Well, as of now you are. I SPENT FOREVER TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW SING THE SORROW FIT IN WITH EVERYTHING! left eye twitches But anymoo, thanks a BUNCH. Wow. I noticed the "111 less than perfection" part a while ago, but that's about all I got. Again, THANK YOU!!! I really need to see Clandestine again to really undertsnad it. I, too, have not seen it in a long while.
21-06-2004 22:34 EverxAndxAxDay
13 posts	Actually, reading that post over again, I've been thinking--- could the Silver and Cold video tie in to any of this? I know Girl's Not Grey has the bunny... that's the only connection I've made in the past hour or so. I'm a bit lost, so if anyone knows any more, IM me on xhome is nowhere (AIM or AOL users only). Thanks, it's greatly appreciated.
21-06-2004 22:41 jsimms52
24,667 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal One of the best intros to a cd EVER....such a great song and the way it goes into the leaving song pt. 2 is pretty cool....This album is awesome!!
22-06-2004 06:37 StreetSoldierX5
32 posts	Miseria Cantare means "Misery I Sang" in Spanish. Fit that in.
23-06-2004 08:09 MourningStar
633 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal Yeah, I've read that 336/Clandestine/STS stuff, I got it from AFIBassPunk I think that's his name on here... He said he got it off the official AFI/DF messageboards. Anyways, very interesting stuff. I myself tried a little research. I didn't find much, but I tried.
29-06-2004 21:31 AFIbasspunk
26 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal *evilbrastrap didn't write that.* I emailed it out to alot of people when I found it on the official AFI message boards. A lot of people are passing it off as their own work though and I really hate those peope.
08-07-2004 01:31 evilbrastrap
27 posts	Its true i didnt write that but i didnt take any credit for it there is alot of theroys and i found this one most accurate in my opinon so i copyed it to print it out and show my friend because we have been intrested in all this 366 stuff also i got that theroy at AFI And im sorry if some people thought that i wrote that i didnt mean for anyone to think i wrote all of that whoever did write that is awesome
08-07-2004 01:33 evilbrastrap
27 posts	oh and im part of the AFI/DF board too...and im thinking about being a member of the Despair Factor!
08-07-2004 01:34 evilbrastrap
27 posts	i mean 336 sorry
17-07-2004 00:38 vatticus
36 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal Miseria Cantare means "Misery I Sang" in Spanish. Fit that in. Actually it's in LATIN.... I speak Spanish... and that's not spanish... This intro is great...
06-08-2004 22:10 SplitCell
1 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal AFI has got to be the most kickass band in the world, and all of you other faggots that think otherwise can kiss my ass, or I'll kick yours!!!
07-08-2004 11:46 MidnightMoon
36 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal Woah. OO' The whole StS-story's much cooler than I imagined, but I never knew it were some sort of hidden message through it either - YES, I'm slow and stupid. But it all seems to make loads of sense. I haven't seen Clandestine yet either...
16-10-2004 21:51 BittersweetSong
46 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal Wow, that is such a cool mystery kind of thing. Yeah, the only stuff I've heard from AFI is from the STS album. I want to get more! They rock!!
19-10-2004 22:58 Jayne_the_Great
13 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal which intro anthem song is do u think is better: miseria cantare or strength through wounding?
04-11-2004 22:04 nirvanafreak90
1,189 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal my dad makes fun of me for likeing afi cuase the guy looks like a girl but i dont care
05-12-2004 18:49 a77aque
3 posts	Evilstrap, I think your analyis is right on target. I think the title of "This Time Imperfect" also supports your theory. With this new information I am able to listen to STS in a whole new light. Thanx...and I'll probably drop some more analyis as I relisten to the cd.
08-01-2005 05:01 Emo_Gurl92
178 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal This is amazing sounding I love it to itty bits. P.S. I never knew any of that!
28-01-2005 20:45 dead rose
507 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal love this song!!
19-04-2005 22:12 choctaw
11 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal man that shit was crazy about the whole meaning of the album. but honestly i have no idea who the hell would spend that much time in trying to figure out the meaning of an album. i dont know if any of yall like tool but a while back i read on their site something about the meaning of thier "lateralus" cd and that shit was just as crazy as this. but for an intro to the cd this was good but i still think strength through wounding is better but this is still a pretty good cd. i like their older stuff a hell of alot better but sing the sorrow isnt all that bad.
29-08-2005 20:38 WeBecomeSilence
6 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal Where would one pick up that clandestine package you refer to? With the book and all I've looked forever for it and can find it nowhere
01-08-2006 02:29 Airisu
6 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal I agree with evilbrastrap that the CD is out of order and probably intetionally so, obviously this song came up first, even if it shouldn't have been because it sounds so much like an initiation chant. C'mon "you are one of us" that's a kickass line. But yeah, even the Leaving Songs do not flow into one another, or at least, I don't hear that when I play them one after the other. Creepy, but awesome. [offtopic] and it's hot out right now so have some lemonade
01-08-2006 02:32 Airisu
6 posts	To add, it's little wonder why the put those bunnies on the Decemberunderground CD.