What does 37mm mean?

AFI: 37mm Meaning


37mm Lyrics

Bring your secrets to me,
Just give me your hands,
And I'll let you feel the wounds.
They put in me.

If you believe in me,
How can I be dissolving?
If you'd believe me,
I'd tell you everything.

Do you fall too?
(everytime that...

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    anonymous
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     May 28th 2012, 14:05 report


    This song is about Jesus and how much he cares for us hence "ill suck the poison out" and has to do with he loved us so much that he was willing enough to give us a second chance and die for us and that he save us one day while exposing the true relegion



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    anonymous
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     Oct 23rd 2010, 22:09 report


    This song is about Jesus if one takes into account the words and the religious symbolism along with the title 37 mm you'll find that this in fact is about Him. To truly understand this song look up the significance of the number 37.



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    anonymous
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     Feb 28th 2010, 07:26 report


    I think there is a few messages here. One important one being.. They are killing us all.. We are no one. We are pacified every time we fall. "We are no one we are no one we are no one" - A:we do not matter to them.
    "If you keep killing me how can I keep absolving?" Well here it suggests you would not pardon someone if they were killing you. The song uses the word 'we' a lot that is the song speaks for everyone. (The whole song, it is a little inconspicuous)

    Within a few close versus it speaks of being silenced, pacified, poisoned, ect. All are elements of control.

    More messages that seem broken - but they are there..
    Trust me = fall into me..
    There is an expression of hopelessness.. as the word'We'has been used.. We fall = or fall to our knees, we trust..

    Impatience: time time time were not waiting... Again it suggests that we are no one. We simply don't matter.



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    LoveDeath_NAT
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     Oct 11th 2009, 18:53 report


    i think he talking to his love about how hes giving his all for her, and how shes dealing with the conversation... thx AFI u guys are the best band ever :)



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    anonymous
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     Apr 21st 2009, 16:37 report


    I believe that AFI is still enjoying their music it's just that they have realized that their lives have passed by so fast and realized that they have not been as successful as they wished so they signed to interscope. the one thing is that interscope is a label that manipulates it musicians into something they aren't so they sell better. They did this by focusing AFI around davey and making them do this whole thing where davey's lyrics can be interpreted in multiple ways. yet I feel that this is just another way that musicians express themselves. For example a well trained musician can play a song in way that people can think its played multiple ways therefore no one person will ever play it exact except for the one who wrote it. I vfeel this is what davey does with his lyrics so no one person can no exactly what the song is about except him. perhaps he wrote 37 mm meaning for it to be about him not wanting to get hurt and some symbolism about the anti-christ just for the hell of it. I mean perhaps davey does consider himself the anti-christ, not literally but containing some characteristics of the anti-christ. I meann if you look at the song davey calls himself the human blasfomy and seems to be refering to himself as the anti-christ or some kind of dark being. he says I left the world tonight as in maybe he sold his soul at one point hoping for success and some feeling of love yet he never received it and now feels like he lost a part of himself he can't get back, but honestly no one knows. this is all what drives AFI fans to become OBSESSED and fall into the band. This is what gets AFI its popularity and large fan base. The point is AFI is interesting and mysterious yet the only who one who knows what to take literally and what not to is the members of AFI mainly davey and jade.



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    anonymous
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     Jan 19th 2009, 15:37 report


    The song is about intimacy...really loving someone for everything they are....good and evil. Just like a fairy dissolves every time someone says they do not believe in them....Love does too.



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    anonymous
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     Jan 12th 2009, 15:42 report


    You kids are embarrassing and you know nothing but what you read on wikipedia (with your facts about individuals). Who gives a fuck if Davey went to catholic school until 8th grade? Almost everyone did who was a teenager born in the 70's... So what? The band has been around longer than 3/4 of your lives. They've gone from trying to have fun, to pissing people off, to confusing and misleading ignorant fucks! so shut the fuck up about the 666 and everything else. you do nothing but confuse stupid people even more. It's music they get paid to make. a business. Davey writes crazy lyrics so people do this shit. That's why he's good. They want to be the biggest rock band ever. They are entertainers. Its a show. This is the unfortunate truth. If you see older people at an afi show, stay outta their way and don't act like you belong there! when you're still supporting them in another 15 years, then run your mouth. until then shut the fuck up and quit adding fuel to the fire. don't force your interpretations of songs on other people.



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    anonymous
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     Oct 16th 2008, 13:34 report


    I think this song really goes out to all AFI fans. We all look at Davey and think he's perfect, and nothing ever goes wrong. But Davey Havok is just his stage persona. There are things going on in David Marchand's life that we don't know about, so I think the song is him saying that yes, he falls too, just like all of us.



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    tempest
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     Jul 23rd 2008, 22:36 report


    This song is definitely about trust issues. He asks "bring your secret to me" but then ask "do you want to fall into me". That sounds like he doesn't trust but want to be trusted. but think of it how ever you want.



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    anonymous
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     Jun 30th 2008, 14:27 report


    Watch the movie V For Vendetta, and you see that a lot of the references in this song fit perfectly with V and Evey in the movie. "Just give me your hands and I'll let you feel the wounds they put in me", because V was horribly tortured and burned before he escaped Larkhill. "If you believe in me, how can I be dissolving/keep absolving?" is when he really loves Evey, and he knows she loves him too, but he also knows that he has to die on November 5th. The chorus is about telling Evey to be strong, and that they will always be one, even after he's dead, because he made a difference, and as a finale he "falls into" the parliament building. Just my thoughts.

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    anonymous
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     Nov 24th 2007, 11:33 report


    Okay, this song has a lot to say, so lets start with the title. There are several different interpretations of this, and some people have already stated several of them. To explain my own, I'm going to look at the EP "336". The idea was that it came before STS, making STS 337. At this time, they put up several links on their site to sites about esoteric astrology and Chinese astrology. In STS booklet there is along the lines of "Rabbits are roadkill on Rt. 37". There is also a B-side by that title. Now here is where it gets really confusing. If you are a rabbit in the Chinese zodiac, it means that you will not be reborn and that this is your last chance on earth. Davey, being a rabbit, became death obsessed when he heard this. The numbers 3 and 7 have special meanings that have something to do with divine perfection and other stuff that I can't remember. So now there is some big mystery thing that Davey and the rest of the band have set up. As you can tell, I really have very little idea what I am talking about, but it also has to do with Clandestine, AFI's video. That relates to this song in particular because in several scenes the words "we are no one" appear. If you want to know more about this (which I would suggest, as it is incredibly interesting) you can look at the Despair Faction forums. Okay, back to the song. I believe it has to do with the feeling of being insubstantial, "We are no one", as if you are fading away."If you believe in me, how can I be dissolving". You also might want take into account that this was originally a song for Blaqk Audio and their entire first album is about being invisible or not really there. Yeah, so that's my interpretation. It still leaves a lot of things unsaid, but that's all I got.



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    anonymous
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     Aug 1st 2007, 11:51 report


    Ok, AFI is not part of the Antichrist. For one, Davey went to catholic school until 8th grade. Also, they make no reference about being God. That's just ridiculous. And sometimes, the person that writes the lyrics, knows what they want the songs to be about. Davey does say that he doesn't make many religious references. Well, he knows what the songs he writes are about. I hate it when people read my lyrics and are all like trying to tell me what it's about. I know what it's about because I wrote it. And the whole 666 thing, that could be for many reasons. Many interviews I've read, Davey said it was his Grandmom's birthday, so that was like a present. That whole end of AFI thing is ridiculous, too. They're not going to end any time soon. It's just completely insane. And yes, that's just your opinion, but this is mine. A lot of it is accurate. Just look more into the band before you interpret one of their songs.



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    anonymous
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     Jul 30th 2007, 12:03 report


    Ok. For starters, I don't get why everyone thinks this has to be about Jesus. Maybe not everyone, some people were saying how it was about a relationship. However, you have to take it in another person's perspective. I think that this song is about trust and betrayal. The trust is someone gave whoever they're talking about their secrets. Because they kept those secrets, they were hurt and tortured. Then, the other person betrayed because they never believed in the first person, so it was like they were dissolving, gently fading away from the other person. Then they're saying, if you would just believe in me like I believed in you, I'd tell you everything. Then, the chorus is literally talking about life and the obstacles. Do you fall too? is saying that they are slowly dissoling, and slipping away from the world, or falling. So, are you also suffering like I have, or do you want it to just go away by falling into me. Then the second verse is like press me to your lips and I'll suck the poison out, who will heal me. This is saying how, this person will do whatever it takes to help, poison being a symbol for something terrible. But since the other person doesn't believe in them, they won't heal them. So, that again is the betrayal. Then, I feel that silver and cold comes into relation with the next part. In silver and cold, they were saying your sins into me. So, through the course of time, they want the sins of the other person to go into them, but if the other person is sloly killing them, or letting them fade away, then how can their sins keep going into them. How can the other person be safe without them? Time time time, we're not waiting, time time time, we're no one. This is saying how everything takes time, but sometimes it's not worth waiting for. Kinda referring to the betrayal. We're no one is saying how they're not important enough to have to wait for time. Ok, I know this isn't really right, I mean it's how I feel, but I really don't think every AFI song is about Jesus. and that's what a lot of the interpretations are saying. That's just how I feel, though. And I hope you guys read my At A Glance interpretation. I didn't know how to get the lyrics there, though. So I just wrote them in my interpretation.



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    mfteapot
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     Jul 26th 2007, 12:44 report


    Wow. you know what...the anonymous one...that really intrigued me. I mean...I think that whoever you got that from was really in depth about it and I loved that. I thnk he forgot about someone though, Mary Magdalene. She would wait in his tomb and everything until he was resurrected. I mean that's my opinion. I'm not religious or anything, but I do research cause I wanna know more. But that...wow..was really impressive.



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    anonymous
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     May 19th 2007, 01:22 report


    I agree with whoever said it was about two people breaking up and then the person (possibly davey) is talking to someone about it. It could also be a succession to silver and cold, just that I think silver and cold is about two people breaking up after a rocky relationship.



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    anonymous
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     Apr 25th 2007, 19:03 report


    what does the title mean?



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    anonymous
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     Apr 6th 2007, 17:42 report


    To me, it sounds like the story of Jesus Christ (If you keep killing me how can I keep absolving your sins into me?), because Jesus was the only known man who forgive for sin.

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    anonymous
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     Mar 2nd 2007, 22:58 report


    okay, I did not think of this, but this is an interpretation of 37mm by tRyXRyz, on songmeanings.com. It's just that I felt like nobody understood it in depth as this person does, but it's just a theory...

    "No matter what Davey says to magazines, AFI lyrics have Christian references. In fact, due to the references throughout decemberunderground, it is my opinion that in this album, the character(whether it be Davey, or winter, or whatever... or it could be just one character of many in the album) makes the false claim that he is God. but in doing so shows that he is megalomaniacal and can be compared to the Antichrist (because the antichrist claims to be God). This antichrist reference is apparent in the rabbits in the shape of three sixes on the cover and the release date of the album(666). Miss Murder provide aa great deal of evidence for this, as many people have already interpreted that a megalomaniacal individual who eventually kills himself is at the topic of the song (whether that be Hitler, Jesus, Cobain, or symbolically Davey ending AFI). Further evidence for the Antichrist theory can be seen in the album title (hiding from the birth of Jesus), almost all of Sing the Sorrow (the love that Jesus preaches is replaced with sadness and hate, especially in Miseria Cantare), the fall theme throughout their music, etc. The whole CD also plays somewhat like the musical "Jesus Christ, Superstar" in that this megalomaniacal individual finds that the only way he will become immortal is through his death, which he plays off as a murder but is actually a suicide. The end of AFI is also hinted at throughout this album (Miss Murder, The Missing Frame and it's breakdown, and Endlessly, She Said) and their age makes it believable.

    the songs before this have hinted of the fate of the character, and symbolically of Davey and the band. prelude 12/21 is basically a prelude to the end of the year, the end of time (Mayan reference), the end of AFI. In kill caustic, davey questions if the music is all that he has left, but he knows it will have to end soon, so he knows the detatchment will be violent, hence the title of the song. In miss murder, as I have stated, the character, who could represent many people, asks if he must kill himself (or the music) to preserve his legacy (beauty). Summer shudder shows davey's fears that when his fans leave decemberunderground and AFI is invisible and the fire inside has burnt away, their lives will look less important and so small. In the interview, the massively popular character (davey) tells the interviewer the truth... He will lose his name, his dreams of eternal grandeur will fall through, and he tells the fans to calm down and not cry. finally, the character realizes the way that his end can still be epic, and it is through suicide, through decemberunderground, through bringing the fans to take part in the sorrow of decemberunderground, and through becoming a god in this place. In love like winter, he also revives this lover he spoke of earlier... either miss murder or perhaps the interviewer, or if not one of those then someone he meets in decemberunderground who has fled from the same world he has. The first line of affliction gives another hitler reference, reigniting the notion of the character as someone who will take his life in order to try to make himself immortal. The song shows that the character is undergoing affliction (the thorny sticks behind the lyrics can wrap into a crown of thorns) but the affliction is inflicted by himself through bleeding wrists, not through others as he attempts to suggest. In the missing frame, the character is almost in davey's exact situation, as he sees the sanctity and legitamacy of his band is being threatened by his media hype. no one in the band cares, none of the media cares that they are destroying this artist, but his music will inevitably falter and he will die along with it. kiss and control is a night out on the town in hollywood with all the stars, who give you ecstacy and drugs to watch the city lights, but they are really spiraling you toward a quick death which you will forever be glorified through (we all want to die like movie stars, we'll burn like stars, watch the stars turn you to nothing, etc.). In the killing lights, davey realizes that these celebrities, these camera bulbs are killing him, and he knows he is dying through the magazines (they never forget a face when they cut you up). which brings us to 37mm...

    the scenario: in 37mm, the deranged and conceded character is spiraling down into the suicide he will inevitably inflict. The cameras (hence a 37mm camera) literally become guns (so the interpretation of a 37mm as a gun is correct as well) as the media encircles davey, who feels his music will suffer with this attention (paper airplanes also tells of Davey's worry that selling out will destroy him). He speaks to a fan, or perhaps a lover, who tries to convert, who he tries to make believe in him. His words show that he claims and/or believes that he is Jesus Christ.

    Bring your secrets to me. (You can confide in me. Here in Decemberunderground, I am your everything.) Just give me your hand and I'll let you feel the wounds they put in me (Direct reference to Jesus placing Doubting Thomas' hands on his wounds. This makes the fan/lover believe that he is real, he is a god, but these wounds are self-inflicted). If you believe in me how can I be dissolving (he knows that through his fans he will live on, just as Jesus has never died for 2000 years)? If you'd believe me I'd tell you everything (I'll tell you the meaning of life [sorrow as opposed to Jesus' love]). Do you fall too? (Question from God, making the fan/lover acknowledge their faith in him) Yes, I fall. (affirmation, oath) Do you want to fall into me? (Also shows that they both arew confused and through this confusion they will only continue to fall together in decemberunderground) Every time that I try to pacify I fall (I think this is a drug reference, especially the word pacify leads me to believe this). Silence can you hear me? (Davey is the music, and he will cure the death of silence, but soon his suicide will make his music live on, for his fans believed in him) Press me to your lips and I'll suck the poison out (the drug previously mentioned must be silence, which makes sense because they would've destroyed Davey's voice). Who will heal me (Davey cannot be healed because he thought by killing himself he took sin away from his followers, but he is forever physically dead)? If you keep killing me how can I keep absolving? Your sins into me, begin the poisoning. (He asks the paradoxical question that how can a death cure death? Is this sacrifice true? Is he really a god? If not, how can he take their sins away?) Time, we're not waiting. Time, we're no one. (Time will take away fame, making them no one. No one will wait or be around later, and he will be dead)."

    Yeah... pretty thought out.

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    anonymous
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     Feb 17th 2007, 22:04 report


    This song is not about love or prostitutes. This song is about something almost none of you would understand.Without making it to obvious I'll tell you 37mm represents 37 million people. These people know something most of you could not understand, something so crazy sounding that no adult would believe, if told by their child. So if you believe you are lucky.

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    xnobodysxfoolx
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     Jan 5th 2007, 21:11 report


    Uh... Yudorka, I think you're thinking about The Killing Lights
    *But it's a beautiful song, about two people breaking up possibly or someone trying to make someone feel better.



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