"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...
A song pops up in my head in bed, carrying with it a memory that may not always be described in words. So the music in it of itself allows me to tell my stories. This is my writer's pen. This is my '3' and my 'M'. This is my passion in life; my blog; my light and though it may occasionally lose its shine, it will never completely leave me in the dark.