Wraith August 17th, 2005 11:16PM  
It's about someone who loves some one with their whole heart and can't tell them because they aren't around anymore. It's about that person saying "no matter what happens, you still will have all of me"

evildarkness2666 August 18th, 2005 03:13PM  
This song was written by Ben Moody when he was a teen (around 16), he was in love with Amy and he wrote it for her. This song describes the way he felt about her as they were kids growing up together. I know this because the producer (David Fortman) of this song and the Fallen CD is a good friend of my moms and he got to know the band pretty good. Anyway, that's what the song means, I'm almost positive.

bella dea September 6th, 2005 08:29AM  
"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"

This is the pain of watching someone you love die and not be able to do anything about it. Being afraid of losing them, of the pain that comes from losing someone. Watching someone hang on when physically they are there but mentally they are gone.

"These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase"

Expression of human suffering when someone you love dies.


"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"

She was there for this person, through the pain, the suffereing the fear. She has been there always and even though this person will be gone soon, they still have her whole heart.

"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"

Again, this is the mentality of someone watching the one they love die. All she can think about is the times that he was well. She is feeling resentment for still hanging onto these memories. She is feeling angry and sad because she can't let go of the past.

"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"

She is trying to convince herself to let go because she knows that he cannot be with her in any way. And she has felt the burden all alone in this. She wants to let go before he dies but she can't.

This song is raw emotion about watching someone you love die and not be able to do anything about it. It's feeling sadness, resentment, anger and fear all at the same time.

anonymous October 5th, 2005 10:12PM  
I believe the song is about someone who is actually still with their significant other, but they have hurt the narrator so much, the relationship is broken.

lolabrt November 2nd, 2005 05:16PM  
This song is apparently about a deceased lover ("I tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone, but though you're still with me, I've been alone all along"), but singer Amy Lee can probably relate to most of the lyrics as her three-years-younger sister, Bonnie, tragically died when she was younger.

anonymous February 8th, 2006 03:27PM  
Did anyone every think it could be about an abusive parent? Or maybe a mentally ill parent? Just a thought :)

anonymous July 28th, 2006 09:58PM  
It's about a woman who has a child with a guy whom she really loved. He is dead and gone, and she is still bound to him. She won't let go, she still has him in her head, and he is her only love.

Evanescencefreak August 12th, 2006 11:00PM  
I do think this song could be about her sister Bonnie, and how she died, and how she can't forget that day wehn her sister died. And the memory haunts her, evrywhere she goes.

"you're face it haunts
my once pleasant dreams"

and how she'll never get over the fact that her sister is gone.

"these wounds won't seem to heal"

again, that's just my interpretation.

anonymous August 17th, 2006 07:53PM  
Its about someone being in love with someone, but they can't have them. This person made a huge impact in their life, and they are always still apart of it so it's not like they can just erase them from their mind, because they are awlays there. And it's more of the angry side of that, telling that person to just go away. It goes with what that person said about the director and knowing the director.

anonymous November 25th, 2006 07:29PM  
Songwriter, singer, whoever...this song was written/sung from the perspective of someone who cannot get over the loss of a lover who swept her (or him) off her feet ("You used to captivate me...") and later walked away, leaving her devastated. The heartbroken person wanders lost and alone around their once happy home and is constantly bombarded with reminders from the past. ("...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.") She remembers all the times she stood by her loved one ("...I'd wipe away all of your tears...", "...I'd fight away all of your fears...", etc). She is frustrated with herself for still being in love with that person and willing to do anything for him, even though he never really loved her the same way in return ("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.")

anonymous January 26th, 2007 12:50AM  
All I have to say is Ben Franklin's letters. It takes a lot of research, but there is something there. =)

anonymous February 12th, 2007 07:30AM  
When I first heard it I thought it was about a girl who has lost her husband boy friend or father. The song is played on the film dare devil when the girl loses her father and sees no reason to stay in the city she is in. She wants to leave it all behind and forget about the constant heart ache she has.

anonymous July 19th, 2007 06:44AM  
This song is about loving someone whoever they may be. a friend, a lover, a child etc, and doing everything you can for that person. wipe their tears, fight their fears etc. and then eventually losing that person. not necessarily in death. yes the person may have died, but it also may be losing a friend due a major argument or drifting apart due to differences.
also it's about eventually trying to forget about that person but though no matter how hard you try you cant. "I tried so hard to tell myself that your gone". and also feeling that the person is still with you in your mind their gone and have left all alone.

I know this is right because I have been on a website that
has the band saying what the songs actually mean (rockfaerie dot com or somthing like that) and Ben Moody, the guy who wrote the song wen he was 15, said this is what the song was about, backed up by Amy Lee.

aj.

anonymous September 5th, 2007 11:13PM  
Perhaps some people read a death theme into the lyrics because of the loss of Amy's sister, and mistakenly believing that Amy wrote it. However, feeling the presence of a loved one after death usually brings comfort, not a wish that they'd go away and leave you alone. Nor would death be a reason to resent having been alone "all along." Death generally results in temporary anger over them having left AFTER they die.

Regardless as to what the original intent of an author is, quite often they will later read something they've written and realize that their subconscious has added multiple levels of meaning to their work. Most artists are aware of the possibilities, no, probabilities of this occurring.

To me, this song could be about a lover, a friend, a parent, a child, a grandparent...or any other person that is loved but takes or even destroys in return. This story is kind of told in reverse, beginning with her/his feelings and then giving us clues as to "why."

Most importantly, it seems to be more about losing one's own sense of identity and self-worth due to the loss and/or betrayal of a loved one than about the actual loss of the loved one--in fact, the desire is that the loved one just go away (taking all the painful love and memories with them.)

"I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears"

She (or he) is emotionally drained and paralyzed by fear--by the end of the lyrics, I'd probably define the fears in terms of the psychological state known as "learned helplessness"

"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"

She is constantly tormented by memories he left behind.

"These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase"

He hurt or betrayed her in a way that she can never forget or recover from the emotional damage.

"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"

Out of love, she sacrificed her life to his well-being and in return, he took her life with him (emotionally/metaphorically) when he left.

"You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind"

She has and always will be imprisoned by him: First it was willingly out of love (captivated by his light); but now she is entrapped by despair (bound by loss and lies)

"Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams"

A face she loved (trusted) has incomprehensibley become the face of her tormentor. A dream morphing into a nightmare.

"Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me"

His words before leaving callously revealed the truth; his deceptions, her delusions, and destroyed her sense of reality.

"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"

She is struggling with the reality that she was all alone in her love when he was with her...and ironically, now that he's left her, she isn't alone: He torments her with the memories of his betrayal (perhaps complicated by her genuine love for who she thought he was.)

Karebear November 14th, 2007 07:38AM  
I honestly think that it's about someone that a person has devoted their whole life to loving and cherishing. No matter what, this person was there for them and no matter the circumstance they always provided for them. And by some cruel strike of fate's marriage to tragedy that steals that person from them. They have probably grieved until they felt like they could finally let it all go into the grounds with what's left of the 'relationship' there was, but no matter what, they'll never be rid of them completely. The long walks and talks at midnight....summer days....beaches...feelings....MEMORIES.

Those are the things you just can't get rid of.

anonymous December 9th, 2007 04:10AM  
"My Immortal" was written by Evanescence's former guitarist, Ben Moody, with Amy Lee adding the bridge. Like all songs written by Moody, the lyrics are based on a short story he wrote. According to Moody, the song is about a spirit staying with you after its death and haunting you until you actually wish that the spirit were gone because it won't leave you alone. Ben also stated in the Fallen booklet that he dedicated the song to Bill Holcomb, his grandfather.

anonymous December 12th, 2007 10:25PM  
"..My immortal.."
.. I hear this song and always felt it fit how I feel..

Seems to me its all about her.A part of her inside that will never die!As a child I think she felt she had no one to count on,felt very alone inside and maybe ashamed.And all she had was her self to count on:[..
until this day she's still haunted by that lil alone, scared girl which still "lives with in her". no matter how hard she tries to move on,she can't..It will live with her for eternity..


HERES THE MEANING OR IMMORTAL!SO WHAT I THOUGHT ITS ABOUT IS SORTA RIGHT!
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meaning of immortal [iˈmoːtl] adjective

living for ever and never dying
Example: A person's "soul" is said to be immortal; the immortal works of Shakespeare
Not subject to death: immortal deities; the immortal soul.
Never to be forgotten; everlasting

deadcalm January 2nd, 2008 12:07AM  
I think the song is about memories that lingers on from someone whom you recently lost that's why the title is my immortal and it pains to remember every time. It is written beautifully and the line that gets me is 'there's just too much that time cannot erase' which is true.

anonymous March 5th, 2008 03:55PM  
I think it's about person 1 doing soooooo much for person 2, and when person 2 betrayed them, lied to them, and made them feel worthless, I think person 1 was crushed by it and they remember "wiping away all of their tears, fighting away all of their fears, holding their hand through all of these years, etc" and they remember how much they did for that person to keep them stable or whatever and now that person 2 is out of person 1's life, person 1 feels like person 2 still has "all of me". And even though person 1 still loves person 2, person 1 feels like they don't want to be in that situation anymore and can't let go. I also think it relates to me and my dad, because I do a lot for my dad, and I literally wiped away his tears when he cried, fought away his fears, and I've held his hand through all of these years. And now I don't even see him anymore because he lost custody of me and he lives far away. He thinks that I forgave him, but I haven't, and he still has "all of me" and he used to "captivate me by your resonating light" because me and him used to be really close. But now things have changed and "these wounds won't seem to heal, this pain is just to real, there's just too much that time cannot erase".

anonymous June 15th, 2008 10:56PM  
I think it is about someone who is in a Relationship and they have cared so much for each other and one of them is not really there for for the other. "suppressed by all of my childish fears" is saying that she should move on but cant. "if you have to leave I wish you would just leave" is saying that they are abandoned and yet they are there for them but the "pain is just to real" for them to bare it.