Evanescencefreak August 14th, 2006 02:32PM  

It sounds to me like she's talking to someone because she's about to die.....?

"hold on to me love
you know I can't stay long
all I wanted to say was I love you
and I'm not afraid oh"

maybe about somone who's dying in the arms of someone they love the most, and is holding her last breath to be with that person. I think this song is hard to interpret. But that's what I think anyway.

anonymous September 24th, 2006 04:10AM  

This song is from the point of view of someone who's dying and one of the most powerful on the cd - maybe because no one gets to hear a dying person's thoughts. But whatever reason (and death in itself is haunting >.<) the pov is from a dying person (we automatically assume it's a girl) and ... Yeah. Very moving song.

anonymous November 26th, 2006 04:11PM  

this song means so many things to me.it is about a forbidden love,a love that can never be true.so amy has to leave her love because some situations, some other forces make her go away from him but she doesn't want to leave him.so she's going to the world of death that nothing compares to him.despite this, she will hold in her memory all the moments that had together.she will never forget him

anonymous January 6th, 2007 03:40PM  

This song is about a woman dying in the arms of her lover.

I think it's some sort of accident in which they can't see each other. Perhaps a car accident with smoke etc., or a fire. That's why she asks, "Can you feel me in your arms?" because they can't see each other even though she's in his arms.

I have puzzled over the "white forest" comment. My first reaction was the Chronicles of Narnia. The children enter Narnia, find a white forest (because it's winter and everything is covered in snow), and go inside a hollow treat to have tea with a forest animal. Given that she says "I'll miss the winter," this is sort of a wish/hope that in the next life, she'll still be able to enjoy what she loves, and she thinks about her favorite childhood story about winter, about the children playing in the white forest and hiding inside the hollow tree. It's sort of a belief that the next life will be happy and she can be free like a child again.

Given that the band does have a Christian background (I am not saying they are a "Christian" band, but they do clearly have some background in church), and the Chronicles of Narnia is a classic children's story by CS Lewis, I think this fits.

The bridge, where it talks about the guy wishing that his dreams would leave him here, and then waking up and finding that no one's left -- I think this is him really wanting her to still be alive (which is why he wants to stay there), but when he wakes up from the trauma, he finds that the ones he loved are gone - "no one's left."

anonymous February 11th, 2007 03:21AM  

This song is obviously about someone dying in the arms of someone thay love and thinking about all the things they would miss about life and wondering about what will happen to them when they die soon.

Well that's the opinion of a sixteen year old evanescence freak who should really be doing stupid algebra homework...

anonymous December 31st, 2007 11:37AM  

Like everyone else, I think this is someone's last words to their lover before they die in their arms.

I'd also like to offer a (slightly) different interpretation - Romeo & Juliet. A slight twist on dying in someone's arms - Juliet wakes up to find Romeo dead, and these are her last thoughts or whispered words as she stabs herself and dies. In particular, I think the line, "Can you hear me?" fits well with this - she wakes up to find him dead, and knows she will never be able to talk to him again.

This would make the bridge be from Juliet's point of view. She goes to sleep in the tomb and wakes to have her worst fear confirmed - the plan has gone wrong, and Romeo is dead. Admittedly this is a kind of weird way to see the bridge.

Just thought I'd offer this up.

deadcalm January 8th, 2008 11:16PM  

This is the best evanescence song for me.it's about dying. It's very passionate and sad. I like the lines 'safe inside myself are all my thoughts of you sweet raptured light it ends here tonight.' it's like all the memories and thoughts of the one you love will always be with you even in the end. but the lines 'but still you wake and know the truth... no one's there. I think that in reality when you are still here and you're alone. I would like to quote this on my deathbed if only I have someone I can say this to.

deadcalm January 15th, 2008 10:21PM  

As the title suggests my last breath, it's about the end. This is a great song with great lyrics. The lines 'holdin my last breath safe inside myself are all my thoughts of you sweet raptured light it ends here tonight' meaning all the memories of the one she's saying goodbye to will always be with her. but the lines '...but still you wake and know the truth, no one's there'. I guess in reality when you know that it's not yet over and you're still there but you are alone. I'd love to quote this on my deathbed. Too bad I haven't got somebody to say this to.

anonymous May 5th, 2008 06:39PM  

I think that this song is basically a woman's last words to someone she loves.

"Hold onto me love,
You know I can't stay long.
All I wanted to say was I love you
And I'm not afraid.
Can you hear me?
Can you feel me in your arms?"
-This signifies that this woman knows she is going to die and can't be saved. She is in the arms if a lover and can barely talk, but she gets the words out (which are the lyrics to most of the song) to tell this person how she feels.

"Holding my last breath
Safe inside myself
Are all my thoughts of you.
Sweet raptured light, it ends here tonight."
-The chorus is about how the woman is taking in her last breath and trying to make it last as long as possible to be with this person just a little longer. Her last thoughts are of this person. "Sweet raptured light, it ends her tonight" is about how she will see the light once she has died.

"I'll miss the winter,
A world of fragile things.
Look for me in the white forest
Hiding in a hollow tree.
(Come find me)
I know you hear me...
I can taste it in your tears."
-This verse tells of how there will be things on earth that the woman will miss, such as winter, which her favorite season, and the loved one knows that, so she is telling him to go into the forest in winter, perhaps to her favorite tree, so he can remember her better and feel her spirit there. Her voice is now but a whisper, and it is almost impossible to hear her, but she knows her lover can hear her because she can "taste it in his tears."

"Closing your eyes to disappear.
You pray your dreams will leave you here.
But still you wake and know the truth,
No one's there."
-This verse is from the woman's lover's point of view. He is closing his eyes to "disappear" into the past of happy times with this woman. And he knows that when he opens his eyes the woman will be dead or even closer to death than she was before.

"Say goodnight.
Don't be afraid.
Calling me,
Calling me,
As you fade to black."
-Another verse from the lover's point of view. He is telling her she not to be afraid to die, and he says her name many times as she draws closer and closer to death.

The chorus plays one more time, and these are the woman's very last words. As the song ends, so does the her life.

anonymous September 9th, 2008 04:50PM  

As far as I know Amy has dedicated this song to her sister who has already died. As well as the song "Like You" on The Open Door.

anonymous December 1st, 2008 12:16AM  

Yeah, i always thought is was about someone dying, too. Before, when i heard the 'white forest' part, i'd think of a snowy forest, but now i'm starting to think she's referring to Heaven, i think. ^^

asterodera January 11th, 2009 04:28PM  

I agree that this song is about dying and entering the afterlife, however I find the lines "look for me in the white forrest, hiding in a hollow tree" interesting. A welsh legend I once read called "Rhys a Meinir" [not sure if there's an english translation" Is about a bride who runs away from her wedding to hide from her husband. She hides up a tree not banking that it was hollow and she falls into it, her husband searches day after day for her and one winter he enters the forrest and a bolt of lightning splits the tree open and there lies Meinir's corpse still in the wedding dress. Not exactly relevant to the song itself, but that's how i interpret that paticular line.

anonymous March 7th, 2009 09:26AM  

hollow tree = (wooden) coffin (?); since the speaker is aware of her impending demise also, more people die in the winter than in any other season of the year and the last part of someone's life (usually elderly, but the speaker isn't clear about her age) is sometimes referred to the "winter" of their life. just some other things to think about :) -C.

anonymous April 19th, 2009 02:03PM  

I think it's about a lover dying and the lyrics are the last words they speak. When I heard 'hiding in a hollow tree' I thought of Rhys and Meiner. It's an old legend about a man searching for his wife, who ran away from the wedding as part of an old custom. He searches and searches for her and eventually, after many years, rests beneath an old hollow tree. A bolt of lightning splits open the tree and he sees the skeleton of his bride, still in her wedding dress. This is just my opinion.

jules1924 May 6th, 2009 12:02AM  

See, for me it's about someone who has already died... maybe visiting her love in a dream or something. Using her last "breath" to visit him from the other side and tell him that she loved him and she wasn't afraid. Could be wrong. :)

CJ.Evanescence June 1st, 2009 04:35PM  

OMG one of my favorites!

But yeah, this song is just about someone dying in the arms of their lover. She's expressing her love him before she dies *hint: my last breath* He's crying because he doesn't want her to go *hint: I can taste it in your tears*

You know, this is kinda random but I think this song would've been so much better for Twilight than Decode. I love both, but this song is so much more powerful. Sure the meaning is a little off, but it still goes so perfectly. Wouldn't you agree?

MyOpinion August 23rd, 2009 02:53AM  

The meaning of this song is wrapped in its metaphors. From the interviews with Amy Lee I’ve watched, I can conclude that she’s not always the happiest person, sometimes depressed. She takes these feelings and ties them into music that relieves her from that stress. This music is a bundle of metaphors and instruments, so as you try to decipher the lyrics, don’t think too literally.
The main point of ‘My Last Breath’ is about a girl/woman (inferring that it’s Amy Lee, since she normally write from life experience) that wants to be happy, wants to be in love, and would miss that depressed mood if she did, but is already withering away returning to that numbing, trapping, and forbidding depression. Here’s the breakdown:
“Hold on to me love. You know I can't stay long. All I wanted to say was I love you and I'm not afraid. Can you hear me? Can you feel me in your arms?”
As she’s leaving, withering into depressing, Amy whispers those last words to her love, but wondering if he cares.
Another point of view is that she is referring to her happy self, wanting that part of her to hold on to her, but knows she can’t linger on it since she’ll soon be sucked into a cold world. And as she lingers on that last strip of happiness (referring to it as a life of its own), Amy wonders if happiness is responding to her.
Perhaps she wonders whether that state of mine is making her ‘invisible’ to him.
“Holding my last breath. Safe inside myself are all my thoughts of you, sweet ruptured light. It ends here tonight” (The Chorus)
Holding on the last strip of happiness, the sweet uncontrollable happy thought of him are in her mind. The bliss ends now. But as that opposing view, it’s the happy thoughts of her happy side.
“I’ll miss the winter: a world of fragile things”
I love this metaphor. As she wants to break free into happiness, Amy’s afraid, and would miss that “winter: a world of fragile things” which is that cold gloomy/gothic [depressed] state of mind, a state of sensitivity (in terms of being easy broken).
“Closing your eyes to disappear, you pray your dreams will leave you here, but still you wake and know the truth. No one's there.”
He’ll close his eyes to slip into a dream (lie) to find refuge from the truth, but he can’t escape the truth. He’s alone.
“Say goodnight, don't be afraid, calling me (calling me) as you fade to black”
She's telling him to not hesitate to drift into “sleep”. He’s calling after her as everything blurs away in the unconscious state.
So, she wants to be happy, but is still likes that gloomy mood. She wants him to be as aware of her as she is to him, and he starts to see her more and more, then she’s ‘gone’.
This is a very touching tale and a very powerful song (a bit creepy, though, it’s like know when the death of your certain life will come). And about my interpretations, did you think a fourteen year old can write like that? :)
Just MyOpinion :)

anonymous September 7th, 2009 04:34PM  

When I listen to this song on repeat I think of it as kind of a suicide note.