Evanescence - Exodus Song Meanings
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My black backpack's stuffed with broken dreams 20 bucks should get me through the week Never said a word of discontentment Fought it a tho... See the rest of these lyrics Exodus Lyrics on KOvideo
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November 4th, 2007 08:37AM
'Here in the shadows, I'm safe, I'm free...' She might feel that this is the only place she belongs, which leads from the lyric: 'I've nowhere else to go, but I cannot stay where I don't belong...' I think that this song can be related to by a lot of people, people who eel that they don't fit anywhere in this crazy mixed up world. I know I can relate to it, and it is one of my favourite songs of all time, because I can listen to it and know every word is believable, because I've gone through it all.
November 4th, 2007 09:15AM
Hope that helps your query =)
November 8th, 2007 05:07PM
"so much more dismay in empty eyes" sounds like my parents lol! that makes it fit even more :D
December 19th, 2007 11:11PM
We've all felt it before. Your sitting in the middle of a crowded room and you start to think. Why am I here? What is my purpose? Why don't I fit in like everyone else does? Maybe I don't really belong here. Maybe I'm not even supposed to be here.... The song takes you through a story basically. A girl, possibly Amy, had never once complained before about feeling out of place. She always just stayed where she was told to. But inside, she was screaming. She needed an escape. She needed to leave the life that deep down, she knew was all a lie. So she packs up her stuff into a black back pack. Which I think, is symbolic in that it represents all the blackness in her life. Throughout the years, she had been slowing stuffing her life and soul into a black hole. Hoping that someday things would get better, but instead, she lost anything that would make her even remotely comfortable where she was. And after she leaves, she doesn't turn back. She knows that she can't. It would cause too much confusion. And why go back when there was nothing there for her. Remember that black hole? Nobody can feel comfortable living in a life- sucking hole. However, she doesn't know where she is going to go. So she stays on the side lines....in the shadows where no one can see her or hurt her..... she doesn't know how to get along in the world without hiding. The shadows comfort her, and give her a reason to stay where she is. And where she is...is no where. She's wondering around trying to find a way to somehow come out of the dark.... The last lines in the song were very well written. "Show me the shadow where true meaning lies, so much more dismay in empty eyes...." She wants there to be an answer for why she is roaming the earth.... All her life, she has been a loner, she has been different from the rest. if the shadows are the only places she feels comfortable, then there must be some truth lying within them....if only she could find that truth.... and when she realizes that she can't find it after all the searching, her eyes fill with dismay. They are always filled with sadness and they always will be until something changes. until she finds the answers she is looking for....
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