Songfacts®:

• The songs for AFI's ninth studio album, Burials, were written during a dark time in vocalist Davey Havok's life, and his personal pain infiltrated much of the lyrical content. On this rip roaring cut he croons:
  
  The blackness drips down from both my hands
  The gold in my palm was mistaken for sand
  Can you feel it?
  
  Davey told Radio.com that the writing of this album was therapeutic. "There was a catharsis in the writing process and there was strangely distance from what I was experiencing," he said. "Despite there being focus on that chaos within the content of what I was creating, it allowed for an escape, which was a strange dichotomy. But it was there and so that was very, very helpful in a way."
• "The Sinking Night" is the lead track from AFI's 2013 album Burials. In a track-by-track video feature for the Rock Sound YouTube channel, Davey Havok said the song was "actually a fragment of a greater track that we wrote." He then explained, "[T]he fragment that you hear that opens the record was actually recorded when I had left the studio. I came back and the guys had taken the greater song and edited it down after having a conversation thinking that it would be a good piece to open the record."
  
  Davey added, "When I hear the song, I actually always envision the greater work, which may not ever be heard by anyone."