For a while I thought I fell asleep
Lying motionless inside a dream
Then rising suddenly I felt a chilly breath upon me
She softly whispered in my ear
Forsaken, I have come for you tonight
Awaken, look in my eyes
And take my hand
Give yourself up to me
I waited painfully for not to fall again
Trying to silence the fear within me
Out of the night and mist I felt a stinging kiss
And saw a crimson sting on her lips
I have to know your name
Where have I seen
Your face before?
My dear, why don't you be afraid?
Forsaken, I have come for you tonight
Awaken, look in my eyes
And take my hand
Give yourself up to me
Take me far away
Close your eyes
And hold your breath
'Til the ends of the earth
Forsaken, I have come for you tonight
Awaken, look in my eyes and take my hand
Forsaken, fly away with me tonight
Awaken, renew my life
Now you are mine
Give yourself up to me
Lying motionless inside a dream
Then rising suddenly I felt a chilly breath upon me
She softly whispered in my ear
Forsaken, I have come for you tonight
Awaken, look in my eyes
And take my hand
Give yourself up to me
I waited painfully for not to fall again
Trying to silence the fear within me
Out of the night and mist I felt a stinging kiss
And saw a crimson sting on her lips
I have to know your name
Where have I seen
Your face before?
My dear, why don't you be afraid?
Forsaken, I have come for you tonight
Awaken, look in my eyes
And take my hand
Give yourself up to me
Take me far away
Close your eyes
And hold your breath
'Til the ends of the earth
Forsaken, I have come for you tonight
Awaken, look in my eyes and take my hand
Forsaken, fly away with me tonight
Awaken, renew my life
Now you are mine
Give yourself up to me
Lyrics submitted by th3drap3ryfalls, edited by Octavarium64
Forsaken Lyrics as written by John Petrucci John Myung
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Anyway, great, great song, possibly my favorite ever of all time in all the world. DT rocks!
here is my opinion about the meaning of this song:
the music video starts with a light showing up in his room, that wakes him up and he realises he is stuck in a chair with cables coming out of him, connected to his heart that is shown far away from him. when the light appears his heart starts shining. i think the cables may represent the reason and logic, and the lack of emotion or passion, that don't let him be free and are controling his heart. the light waking him up represents some thought that made him see that he wasn't really living his life. that's why appears "awaken" in the song's chorus.
"For a while
I thought I fell asleep
Lying motionless inside a dream"
he means that he was living a meanless life, and he didn't even realise it.
"Then rising suddenly
I felt a chilling breath upon me
She softly whispered in my ear:
Forsaken
I have come for you tonight
Awaken
Look into my eyes and take my hand
Give yourself up to me"
a shining woman appears and speaks to him, telling him to come with her. he tries to touch her but he can't. so, he breaks the cables that are holding him. well, this represents the temptation that defeats the reason, and he decides to live his life freely. he starts running away, following the light, that means freedom, and breaks the window's glass of that "prison", where he was living. he starts falling, but the woman saves him. this i don't understand what it means, maybe he is out of control and she helps him, i don't know.
"I waited painfully
For night to fall again
Trying to silence the fear within me"
he is scared because he is no longer between that walls that could protect him. when anyone takes chances, they are always afraid of something that can go wrong.
"Out of an ivory mist
I felt a stinging kiss
And saw a crimson stain on her lips
I have to know your name
Where have I seen your face before?
My dear one don't you be afraid"
well, in this part, i think that "I felt a stinging kiss" doesn't really mean a bite, like it was already said. in my opinion it is a metaphor for the moment when he fell in love. "stinging" and "kiss" are two words with opposite feelings: pain and pleasure. that are the main feelings of love, a combination of really strong contrasts. when she bites him, his veins turn black, like she had sent a poison to his blood, representing all his addiction for her, and the fact that he had a part of her inside him. it also makes his heart (symbol of love) shine strongly, now shown inside him. he seems to become mad, crazy of love. since then his eyes turn red, like he started to see the whole world differently. and he can also see her clearly now, he starts to get to know her. and he sees her beautiful. the passion becomes love.
"Forsaken
I have come for you tonight
Awaken
Look into my eyes and take my hand
Give yourself up to me
Take me far away
Close your eyes
And hold yuor breath
To the ends of the earth"
they fly together: he now feels free, like in a dream. they are alone, flying through the sky: they feel like there's no-one else but both of them. she shows him beautiful things, things he had never seen/felt before.
then, suddenly, there is an eclipse and all that light that existed before is gone. there is a hole new dark backgroung, when a huge spaceship appears, something they didn't know to exist in that amazing world they thought they knew. they try to fly away from it all and he asks her to bite him again. that is the last paragraph:
"Forsaken
Fly away with me tonight
Awaken
Renew my life
Now you are mine
Give yourself up to me"
she refuses, her figure starts to get unclear and she goes away. in the next scene, the ambient is dark, and he is now in the ground, freeless again, while he is holding her and watching her disappear from his life. his heart is dark and cold again, now in his hands, and he is feeling real pain.
in the end, a light appears far away from there. it is the sun rising, a whole new begin. he stands up, ready to continue with his life.
dude. you probly got that down better
than i could come up with unless i drone
over the song for hours. thats sick that
you were able to do that. i kinda sorta get
it now thoguh maybe i should try to look into
it a little bit more. this song was after all
a dedication to my ex gf so maybe being a girl as
well we both(me and her) have strange and different opinions
on it. ill go over it. hmmm......