"My Immortal" - Evanescence
When I first heard this song, my initial reaction was that the singer was singing of heartbreak and loneliness; of the exhaustion of loving someone who just can't be loved no matter how hard she tried. I thought she was giving up because it just got too damn hard to keep up. I thought I could relate. I thought at the time I was feeling what she felt.
In mid-October, this song came to mind again. And then I finally chose to listen to the lyrics very carefully and realized that what she was referring to was not at all what I had assumed. I Googled it and learned that the singer was mourning the loss of her sister. A loss I can't even bear to think about as I sit here and type this.
Now, my pain is so elementary compared to the true sadness of this song. All I see when I hear these lyrics is the image of two empty swings sitting still in a quiet playground on a cloudy day.
Lyrics:
I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me
You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me
I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/evanescence/myimmortal.html
http://einsames.sternenkind.myblog.de/einsames.sternenkind/art/6975196/-My-Immortal-
When I first heard this song, my initial reaction was that the singer was singing of heartbreak and loneliness; of the exhaustion of loving someone who just can't be loved no matter how hard she tried. I thought she was giving up because it just got too damn hard to keep up. I thought I could relate. I thought at the time I was feeling what she felt.
In mid-October, this song came to mind again. And then I finally chose to listen to the lyrics very carefully and realized that what she was referring to was not at all what I had assumed. I Googled it and learned that the singer was mourning the loss of her sister. A loss I can't even bear to think about as I sit here and type this.
Now, my pain is so elementary compared to the true sadness of this song. All I see when I hear these lyrics is the image of two empty swings sitting still in a quiet playground on a cloudy day.
Lyrics:
I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me
You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me
I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/evanescence/myimmortal.html
http://einsames.sternenkind.myblog.de/einsames.sternenkind/art/6975196/-My-Immortal-
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