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Two Empty Swings

"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 f...