Genius Meanings
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Avenged Sevenfold – Afterlife
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The fourth track and third single from Avenged Sevenfold’s 2007 self-titled release.
The lyrics tell the story of a person who has died young and realizes that he or she still has
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Avenged Sevenfold – Afterlife (Live)
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[Speaking: M. Shadows] / (Let me hear you now Long Beach!) / [Verse 1] / Like falling into a dream, so unlike what you've seen / So unsure but it seems, 'cause we've been waiting
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Avenged Sevenfold – Afterlife (Alternate Version)
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[Verse 1] / Like walking into a dream, so unlike what you've seen / So unsure but it seems, 'cause we've been waiting for you / Fallen into this place, just giving you a small
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Avenged Sevenfold – Life Is But a Dream...
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[Instrumental]
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Avenged Sevenfold – Gunslinger
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“Gunslinger” is a song dedicated to soldiers. It’s about the people who are forced apart from their family and friends, mainly due to war. But anyone away from their loved ones
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Avenged Sevenfold – Almost Easy
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“Almost Easy” is the second track on their self-titled album, and was written by The Rev.
The song was originally planned to be in the Transformers movie, but as the band puts it
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Avenged Sevenfold – Brompton Cocktail
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Brompton Cocktail is the seventh song on Avenged Sevenfold’s fourth, self-titled studio album. It is considered experimental metal and was written by the Rev and M Shadows.
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Avenged Sevenfold – (D)eath
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[Verse 1] / In my dreams / I awake as daylight breaks and wash my face / Put my bedroom back in its place / And tucked away / Write a note of a few things I want to say / And leave
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Avenged Sevenfold – Scream
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“Scream” is the third track on this album, and it was designed to lower the tempo of the album and just give you a good groove.
Lyrically they wanted the song not to be violent
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Avenged Sevenfold – Cosmic
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[Verse] / Fade from all that was before / We shut another door / But not a last goodbye / Fate has taken once again / A fight we'll never win / And time again, we try / Left alone
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Avenged Sevenfold – Hail to the King
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“Hail to the King” is an homage to all the music that the band loves, it’s a song for the fans to feel Avenged’s power. M. Shadows explains the song like this:
“Hail to the King
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Avenged Sevenfold – A Little Piece of Heaven
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A Little Piece Of Heaven is the 9th track of the band’s self titled fourth album. The idea for the song’s storyline, and music video came to the band’s drummer (The Rev) in a dream
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Avenged Sevenfold – Buried Alive
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The fourth single from Avenged Sevenfold’s fifth studio album, Nightmare.
This is the favorite Avenged Sevenfold song of lead singer M. Shadows.
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Avenged Sevenfold – So Far Away
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This song was written and composed completely by Synyster Gates, it is also said that this song was originally for Syn’s grandfather but with Rev’s death he decided to change the
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Avenged Sevenfold – Lost
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“Lost” is the 8th song of Avenged Sevenfold’s self-titled album, released in 2007.
Lyrically the song is about how man has always waged war on each-other. Even though people
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Avenged Sevenfold – Dancing Dead
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[Verse 1] / Dead men, they celebrate / As the final chapter fades away / Cause they can't hide / We can see, their flesh is rotten / The band plays a hopeful tune / The champagne
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Avenged Sevenfold – Bat Country
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This is the song that brought Avenged Sevenfold into the mainstream. It is the second single off the album.
The song’s theme functions as a reference to Hunter S. Thompson’s novel
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Avenged Sevenfold – The Stage
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A return to form for Avenged Sevenfold, “The Stage” is about seizing control over one’s own mind by rebelling against propaganda and complacency. A7X use religious and political
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Avenged Sevenfold – Beautiful Morning
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[Verse 1: M. Shadows] / I sit stoic / Touch of the divine upon my neck / Lay me gently / Take my body down, let me ascend / [Pre-Chorus: M. Shadows] / Help me to hear, and hear me
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Avenged Sevenfold – Nobody
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“Nobody” is the first single and third track of Avenged Sevenfold’s 2023 album Life is But a Dream.
“Nobody” tells the journey of a person realizing they are not just a “person
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Avenged Sevenfold – Shepherd of Fire
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This is the first song from Avenged Sevenfold’s sixth studio album, Hail To The King, released in 2013 by Warner Bros. Records. The song is also used in The intro video for “
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Avenged Sevenfold – St. James
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This iTunes bonus track is a song dedicated to the band’s fallen co-founder, drummer, songwriter, vocalist, and pianist, James “The Rev” Sullivan, who passed away in 2009. The Rev
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Avenged Sevenfold – G
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[Verse 1: M Shadows] / I am the man / Six days of bullshit, a wave of my hand / And you know what I need / Put your hands together, get down on your knees / Or climb a hill and
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