anonymous August 11th, 2006 04:34PM  

This one I picture to me about what's happened in my life. I knew this boy when I was very young and I think it was meant to be for us to be together but for one reason or another we grew up and went in different directions and probably wouldn't even know who one another was if we saw eachother on the streets but I keep having dreams about a male who has dark hair and light blue eyes that for some reason I feel is my destiny to be with one day. As I get older he gets older and as my appearance changed so did his but that same feeling is there when I dream of him. I believe in him cause I know at one time he was a real person and so back to the song. I feel like in the song it's like my life I am in a relationship that is going through some hard times (and it's my secret about this guy I dream of) and I meet him... The person I have been dreaming of all this time and know it's him right away and thus"you don't remember me but I remwember you, I lie awake and try so hard not to think of you (cause I shouldn't be thinking about someone else when I am with someone)

but like amy says "but who can decide what they dream and dream I do"

i get so inpired by this song cause when my boyfriend upsets me I can think about the boy in my dream and think to myself "I believe in you and will give up everything just to find you" I feel like I "have to be with you" so that I can finally live and breathe and the the urge is "taking over me"

course that's just how I like the interpretation to be about. It's different for everyone. But it's pretty good though huh?

Peace child

Fallenbat August 29th, 2007 04:17AM  

I think it's about someone who she maybe just met once, but already has feelings for. She realizes how foolish it would be to love someone she won't see again, so she tries to fight it off, and it works- until she falls asleep (but who can decide what they dream, and dream I do)

2nd verse: when she's finally convinced herself she doesn't love him, she feels like she's missing something, and they meet again, and she knows how she feels.

Pretty much,for me it's about being in a vulnerable state where you think you have feelings for everyone you meet- so you learn to fight it off every time it happens, and then you meet the one you really love and you know it but don't realize it so you try to fight it off again.

AvengingSpirit12 September 16th, 2007 04:24AM  

Basically, I feel this song is about love [though it took me all the way up until a few weeks ago to realize it - I never really analyzed the lyrics]. Sometimes there are people in our lives that are so important, be feel that we have to be with them to be complete. Strangely, I've had a lot of connection with this song lately, though I do not really know why....

anonymous March 10th, 2008 04:51AM  

All your interpretations are great but I believe she is singing bout someone you really like and treasured but has died. It's really tough losing someone you really love.

VultureGirl June 27th, 2009 01:45PM  

This song moved me during a time when I thought I had lost myself in a bad marriage. I wanted to be the happy person that I used to be. I knew that I could be that person again and I would give up everything to find myself again! It was therapeutic and helped me believe in myself that I was still that carefree happy girl!

gothicchick July 11th, 2009 10:31AM  

I think that this song is about a person in her dreams that has appeared more than once, and she knows that he is real, no matter what people say. She is obsessed with finding him and will not stop until she does. Hence, the name.

anonymous October 17th, 2009 06:39PM  

I think it's about just becoming obsessed with someone.

GahChelsea November 9th, 2009 01:50AM  

This song, like all the songs on Evanescences' first album, focuses on sadness and loss, despair and helplessness. The loss she articulates in this song could be obviously interpreted as a break up or someone who she loved greatly that cast her aside and did not return her love, or possibly returned it with abuse. Though the abuse theme I seem to find in a lot of her songs isn't as apparent in this particular song. The "she" I mention in my interpretation does not necessarily mean Amy Lee, the she is the person these feelings are coming from and I do not assume to know about her life and what she has gone through.

"You don't remember me but I remember you.
I lie awake and try so hard not to think of you.
But who can decide what they dream,
and dream I do."

She's rying to reach out to this loved one, a parent, a brother, sister, it could be anyone she cherished. These attempts have gone ignored, or unnoticed. She feels lost and desperate to connect with this person. She cannot help but have this person constantly in her thoughts and dreams.



I believed in you,
I'll give up everything just to find you.
I have to be with you,
you're taking over me.

She cannot keep this person out of her thoughts, but she does not seem to want them to go away. She'll do anything to create this relationship, it reminds me of a child's need for their mother. The child begs and pleads for the only love it can understand. She cannot feel safe without this person.

Have you forgotten all I know,
and all we had?
You saw me mourning my love for you,
and touched my hand.
I knew you loved me then.

This closeness she feels with this person is strong and she feels at one point this person saw her, saw how she felt and tried to show some sort of feeling back towards her. Or maybe she just feel they tried while they never actully did, her complete need for them has created an imaginary feeling that maybe at one point this person actually cared. She's deluding herself to placate her desperation and need.


I look in the mirror and see your face.
If I look deep enough.
So many things inside that are just like
you are taking over.

She has deluded herself so much that the person has officialy "taken over" her everyday life. Her soul is all apart of them, her insanity has brought her down to the level of not being able to live, carry on, without this person.