| Evanescence – Surrender Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I like iliveformusic's thoughts too - but maybe the boy still lives... she has taken her life and its her spirit now obsessing him. (shades of My Immortal). Alternatively, maybe it's just a good old fashioned vampire song, girl bites boy and turns him, he goes into denial but she tells him it's useless to resist. Whatever the real meaning...his number's up! She has him. | |
| Evanescence – Imaginary Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Candy clouds, paper flowers and purple skies are a direct reference to Amy's bedroom when she was growing up. It's how she decorated it, and she would fall asleep gazing up at her purple (sky) ceiling. I don't think the song is any deeper than a tribute to the imagination that can inspire us all, and how we can get some through sleep, dreaming and fantasy. Escape, yes, but we all want that from time to time. I think the song (all versions) work on as dark (the daytime world is a dreadful chaotic place) - or as light (some respite) - a level as you personally want it to. Since she is an artist with a creative and emotional core, inspiration through dream is most likely a really big deal, so no surprise she's written a song about dreamworld. | |
| Evanescence – October Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| It's a hymn, pure and simple. | |
| Evanescence – My Last Breath Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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What I see in my head when I listen to this song goes like this: December, 1770. Emily lays dying in her lover Samuel’s arms; a wasting illness, now reached its end. Emily adored Samuel, a beautiful man, strong and gentle. She loved Sam so much it hurt her. And Sam thought her the most wondrous gift in his life. Nothing in all the world could separate them and he lived for her. Now this. A sorrow beyond his imagining unfolding in this tiny room. “Hold on to me, my love, Sam, hold me” Emily’s voice, barely a whisper. It broke his heart. He looked down at her, cradled in his arms. She looked smaller now, less substantial. These were their last moments together; Sam knew it but he struggled to push the thought from his mind. She would see his fear; it would betray their promise to stay together for all eternity. The beautiful and careless promise that young lovers make. “You know I can’t stay long now, don’t you my dearest. I…” her voice trailed away, only her lips moving now in a semblance of speech, too tired, too small. “O God don’t you leave me, don’t leave me Em.” Samuel choked back a cry. The last time to hear her. The last time to hold her. The last moments, ending. Unbelieving, his eyes filled with unbelieving tears as he looked at her. She was speaking to him but they were silent words now that lay beyond the shallow movement of her chest. “Oh Sam, if I could reach out to you just once more and tell you, just tell you that I love you, and that I’m not afraid any more. Not afraid to die now Sam. Do you know that, my love? Can you hear me? I will leave soon but I’m still here, can you still feel me in your arms? I’m still here, I love you.” She shifted almost imperceptibly in his strong and delicate embrace. “My dearest, keep me close to your heart a while even when I’m gone from here. Keep us together Sam, until the snows give way to the new spring. I shall miss the winter; you called it our world of fragile things. Go back to our white forest, love, and look for me there. I’ll still be hiding in the hollow of our tree; you’ll find me.” He felt her move in his arms and felt so helpless. His chest hitched, struggled for air and he would die himself from the certainty of their separation. He thought of the times they had spent so wonderfully in love. He remembered how excited she had been by the first fall of snow and how they had made their secret places and secret promises in the wintry woods of Leigh amongst the beech and ancient oak. She stirred again. “And you know I have all my thoughts of you, safe inside me now for ever. The life we had together, such rapture. But my love, in this world it ends here. I know you can hear me Sam; yes, I taste it in your tears my sweet, but don’t weep for me now. Just say goodnight my darling, and don’t be afraid.” She looked up now and their eyes met, and shared a thousand treasures in that moment as their souls danced with each other for the last time. Then the moment was gone and her eyes closed. She lay very still. Spiralling somewhere deep inside herself she smiled for him, for them both.. ”I hear you calling…calling me. Can’t come back Sam. This…my last breath, I give it to you. I…love you.” |
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| Evanescence – My Last Breath Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I love this song; the pain of sadness of departing from the one you love. The white forest is interesting - I took it pretty much at face value: winter was such a special magic time she shared with her lover/partner, you can imagine them crunching through the snow hand in hand, so much in love. If he returns there next winter without her he will sense her spirit is still there, still sharing the magic with him. But there is an interesting observation made by someone on the evboard - in "Dante's Inferno", in the afterlife, suicides are symbolised by hollow trees in the white forest! Personally I've never seen the suicide thread in this beautiful song, but others posting here before me have, and, well, the Dante thing is quite compelling. | |
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