What You Want Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Evanecence2001 

Cover art for What You Want lyrics by Evanescence

I feel like it's her mind telling her to do what she wants to do; be who she wants to be. But throughout the song it says things like.

Hello Hello its only me infecting everything you love.

This is others around her bringing her down and trying to make her do what they want her to do.

But in the end she wins going past the pain and doing what she wants!!

My Interpretation

@Evanecence2001 I wonder if the "everything you can't control" is the world / people around her, or is it her own internal doubts / concerns / sadness etc.??

But yes very much an internal struggle going on within her own mind ... do we all have these battles regularly??

@Evanecence2001 I also like @nikkichicky22 's take, that is the chaos in life (or if you prefer "life is what happens when you are planning something else"