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Erase This Lyrics

It's too late to change your mind
Even though this fragile world is tearing apart at the seams
You can't wash these sins away
The sinking feeling
Everyday I'm waking up with someone else's life

Is it so hard for you?
'Cause it's so hard for me
To believe that what we dream
Could ever come to life again
'Cause I cannot erase this life

Not gonna let this day go by
I'm gonna save this wasted life
And nothing can stand in my way
Not enough to say goodbye
Burn it till there's nothing left
I'm drowning in the mess that I have made

Is it so hard for you?
'Cause it's so hard for me
To believe that what we dream
'Cause I cannot erase this

(Darkness in me)

The water is rising around us
There is no other way down
I only have myself to blame
For it all (all)

Is it so hard for you?
'Cause it's so hard for me
To believe that what we dream
Could ever come to life again
If I could just erase my life
But I cannot erase this lie
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Cover art for Erase This lyrics by Evanescence

For me, the woman has lied and done terrible things to build her life with the one she loved, but she feels she has stolen sb's elses life so she tries to escape, leave everything behind. She feels she is the one to blame, and they can't revive their dreams cause they haven't tried hard enough to build them on honesty and efforts. She wishes she could "erase" her mind to forget her sins and lies. Sound more like a story to me, rather than a general meaning. a double agent or an assasin maybe? Beautiful song, kinda fits to the series "Nikita" to me...

My Interpretation
Cover art for Erase This lyrics by Evanescence

Its very very hard to love someone like once you loved and dream the same for the life one you once lived together....

Cover art for Erase This lyrics by Evanescence

Was thinking this might be talking about a relationship formed on a fake persona created by one side or the other. "waking up in someone else's life" - the life of a person who doesn't actually exist. "Even though this fragile world/is tearing apart at the seams" - maintaining a lie takes a lot of effort and likely the act won't be perfect. The whole "not gonna let this day go by" verse - throw away the false image and try being yourself. the "drowning in the mess I have made" part being that even if you do so, there are going to be repercussion, possibly overwhelming ones.

My Interpretation
Cover art for Erase This lyrics by Evanescence

Its about living as a famous person with everyone expecting you to be perfect. She prob feels like she is being pulled down by the weight of her fans wanting her to be perfect

My Interpretation

@Evanecence2001 Interesting thought, I see it quite differently though. Seems to be a conflict between two people (in a relationship or recently split). Sounds like she may have been guilty of ruining the relationship and now can't fathom (dream) what they once had ...

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Cover art for Erase This lyrics by Evanescence

How does that happen that you wake up in someone else's life?

@happy7 I think it is sort of either a. walk in the shoes of someone else for a day adage or b. a way to escape your current life

Either way it is not literal I don't believe

Cover art for Erase This lyrics by Evanescence

It sounds like it's an answer to Seether's song "Fake It". Sean: "You're a fucking hypocrite". Amy: "Is it so hard for you?/Because it's so hard for me to believe what we dreamed/Could ever come to life again/Cause I cannot erase this lie. I have only myself to blame".

 
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