anonymous November 3rd, 2006 02:23PM  

Actually the latin bit means "save us from danger, save us from death" servatis a peliculum (like the spanish for dangerous peligroso) servatis a maleficium (anywors with male on the from is to do with death or bad luck

anonymous December 7th, 2006 09:37PM  

No.... male doesn't mean death, it means bad. The latin part means.......
"Save us from the danger, save us from the wickedness"

anonymous January 6th, 2007 03:43PM  

I was talking with a friend, and he had a really cool interpretation of what "Whisper" is about: Jesus' crucifixion and descent into hell.

Now, before everyone freaks out :-), I read an interview with Ben, in which he was saying they are not a Christian band, and he said the two main songs with spiritual meaning were Tourniquet and Whisper. Tourniquet is easy - Amy said in an interview it was about the Southern Baptist doctrine that if you commit suicide, you automatically go to hell, so this song was about someone committing suicide and then wondering if God would still accept them. But I could never figure out how Whisper was spiritual, and what it meant.

If you saw the Passion recently, you might remember - when Jesus is on the cross, God has to abandon him so that he can take on the sin of the world. Jesus cries out "My God why have you forsaken me?" That's the "speaking to the atmosphere no one's here and I fall into myself" certainly the pain must have been incredible ... etc. When Christ descends into hell, that's the "fallen angels at my feet" etc. Anyway, if you think about it this way, it's a very humanizing way to think about how Jesus must have felt, with pain and fear.

Just an idea, something to think about! My friend certainly got me thinking about it!

anonymous January 10th, 2007 10:22AM  

ACTUALLY: the latin means "save us from danger, save us from evil."

look it up, yall. =/

Diedra March 18th, 2007 04:55PM  

i think this song is not based upon a religious standpoint, but a psychological standpoint. It makes the utmost sense if thought of correctly.if one is emotionally disturbed, I think one can make themselves see whatever it is one truly, deathly, wishes to see. In this song, amy lee is bringing to light that the individual she is portraying is proclaiming his/her question to answer the call of emotional death. There is a cluster of verses that support my opinion:'...death before my eyes, lying next to me I fear, she beckons me, shall I give in, upon my end shall I begin, forsaking all I've fallen, for I rise to meet the end.' these pairs of verses tell of the question, "should I give up my emotional life, or should I fight to regain control of my feelings and my life?" being asked by him/her. The last 2 verses tell,quite clearly, the individual has decided to fall into shadow and breathe the elegance of an emotionless life; never to love again.

anonymous April 17th, 2007 02:05PM  

I think its just about not letting yourself fall into the hands of evil.

anonymous April 21st, 2007 10:42AM  

THE ENDING -tis in servatis in Latin stands for the second person in plural so it would ACTUALLY MEAN:save yourselves from danger,save yourselves from evil.It is a message to all the fans which is the best way to end their album giving a general message to everyone.
dismayfan

anonymous June 8th, 2007 01:00PM  

My god, what's going on?

Servatis a periculum
Servatis a maleficum

... Is "familiar" (that simply means wrong) Latin.

Right would be:

Serva nos a periculo,
serva nos a malefico

and this means:

save us from danger
save us from WICKEDNESS

(believe in me, you just have to look it up in an online dictionary e.g. Http://www.albertmartin.de/latein/?q=maleficum&con=0)

anonymous July 13th, 2007 09:28AM  

I agree that this song has a psychological standpoint. It talks about fears and being alone, having a battle with many negative things. In an interview Moody told that they wanted to express a free christian view, not some rules. So it has nothing to do with religion, but I believe the band in the knew album made a change and doesn't express despair anymore. So they close their album with whisper so they "whisper" us that:

I can stop the pain if I wii it all away

The song secretly tells us to fight our fears. It's not easy, but if we really want it we can do it. So:

forsaken all I fall for I rise to meet the end

We can forget the depressed person we used to be and not always look into the dark side of life. It's our choice, we're not just hopeless victims

Fallenbat August 29th, 2007 04:41AM  

If taken from a religious standpoint,

(Ok I don't have much but):

She's taken all she can, she feels on her own, like the God she believes in isn't doing anything for her, and she's ready to give up and accept evil, because He's never helped her- in the last verse, 'Fallen angels' could be Lucifer's army- and "she beckons me" could be the Angel of death.

"Forsaking all I've fallen for, I rise to meet the end"- she's ready to just drop all she's tried and now is saying with the latin that if God is there, prove it now.

anonymous September 22nd, 2007 12:19AM  

I think it is of someone who had died and he/she is in Hell, so he/she is trying to overcome Hell and fighting for his soul to stay in one piece.

"God knows what lies behind them"
"Fallen angels at my feet"

x_lily_x October 4th, 2007 10:34AM  

I think it's about knowing that somethings coming to an end, like a relationship or life.

anonymous November 22nd, 2007 10:46PM  

I think you'll find on the Evanescence website in the FAQ section it says it means:

Save us from danger
save us from evil

This would make more sense seeing as though it is a choir singing, being more than one person.

CanoliChan January 20th, 2008 08:35PM  

Okay, here's my spin on this:

I think this song has only slight religious aspects in it. In my opinion, I think it's about a person who has just gotten over something that was very hard to get over or was very bad. And in their brains, they still haven't completely gotten over it, because they still want whatever it is.

When it says that they're in some sort of pain, it reminds me of withdrawal. I think the person is trying to cope with the aftermath of addiction to something with a person that truly cares about them.

anonymous May 7th, 2008 05:47PM  

I believe that it could be about christ's crucifixion. Some of the lyrics REALLY DO go with it. as one person had said about the fallen angels, and speaking to the atmospere. the "I know I can stop the pain if I will if all away," I think has something to do with it too. jesus knew he could get ritght off the cross and will away all the pain he went through, but he didn't!! everyone is freaking out cause evanescence isn't a christian band. I know, I understand.

anonymous November 18th, 2008 12:30AM  

This song is about being haunted by the death of her sister. Many of Amy Lee's songs are about the death of her sister - thinking about death, having darker feelings, and choosing not to give in because of her faith/beliefs. Most of the songs on Fallen are about the struggle between good and evil, and how regardless of faith we all battle our own personal vices. Several of the songs on The Open Door are about her ex battling Bi-Polar disorder, and she revisits her sister's death as well.

anonymous May 28th, 2009 12:10AM  

While answering a question by a fan, if she could still relate or still likes the old Evanescence music Amy said that some she could and others she could not because she was not in a dark period in her life and gave Whisper as an example making it sound like she wrote the song based on a real experience not a hypothetical event or something that happened to someone else. But Whisper is still played because it is a good song to play live and if Amy is mad or having a bad day than she can relate to it. But this song could be about lots of things someone dying, in danger, or someone going through a crisis but decides they are going to get through it-("Don't turn away... I can stop the pain if I will it all away") and "God knows what lies behind them" could mean someone who wronged them will pay in the end, don't let the b******s wear you down.

anonymous June 19th, 2009 01:09AM  

If it IS about religion (which it might not be!!) I would see it as such:

"Catch me as I fall, say you're here and it's all over now. Speaking to the atmosphere, no one's here and I fall into myself" could be relating to a loss of faith. She wants to believe God is there, but no one is answering her prayers, so she doesn't know how to continue believing

"This truth drives me into madness, I know I can stop the pain if I will it all away, if I will it all away" Meaning that the fact that she's lost her faith is giving her no reason to live, and if she really wanted to she could numb herself, not care, but she doesn't want to completely cut herself off from the God she's believed in.

"Don't turn away (Don't give in to the pain) Don't try to hide (Though they're screaming your name) Don't close your eyes (God knows what lies behind them) Don't turn out the light (never sleep, never die)" Meaning that she doesn't want to stop believing, and although everyone is calling her to see the truth and she is resisting, she should look it in the face and resist. She shouldn't ignore what's happening either, because her imagination of what's happening could be worse, and if she doesn't die, she doesn't have to face the supposed truth of their being no God.

"I'm frightened by what I see, but somehow I know that there's much more to come." Everything that's going on is scaring her, giving her more reason not to believe, and she knows that there will be more evidence against it on the way.

"Immobilized by my fear, and soon to be blinded by tears" meaning that the fear of a complete loss of fear is causing her to stop everything that's going on in her life, just to mourn God.

"Fallen angels at my feet, whispered voices in my ear, death before my eyes, lying next to me I fear" All of the evidence against a God; people she believed to be absolute good are dead, people are trying to corrupt her, people are dying all around her and it's getting hard to believe, also the death of her faith.

"She beckons me shall I give in, upon my end shall I begin, forsaking all I've fallen for I rise to meet the end" Temptation is all around her, and she's wavering; her faith ends and her rejection of God begins. "Forsaking all I've fallen for" meaning that she's now given up completely; she's forsaking what she once believed to be true, the supposed lies she had fallen for. and the last line, meaning that she's no longer afraid of death or what lies afterwards because she does not belong to God anymore, and is now corrupted.

The Latin at the end (either "save yourselves from danger, save yourselves from evil" or SOMETHING like that) means to save yourself from the corruption.

udontknowme July 6th, 2009 01:44PM  

What I think when I hear this song is that it tells the story of a person that has been tormented severely and they are begging to be released from the torment (hence the "Catch me as I fall. Say you're hear and it's all over now.) But they feel like their savior doesn't respond and they try to just distance themselves from the world. Then they start to think that they could fight the pain away. The chorus I think is from the POV of the person they are begging to save them. The supposed rescuer is telling them not to give in and to hold on for just a little bit longer. In the second verse we return to the opinion of the victim. The torment is continuing and they are afraid of what they know is coming. They're too scared to move, but at the same time they can't stop themselves from crying. In the finale the angel of death is beckoning the victim to come with them and get away from the pain. Said victim questions whether they should go and eventually decides to forsake the world and the pain and rises to meet the end of it all. That's my take on it.

anonymous September 17th, 2009 05:18PM  

Im not going to say I know exactly what this song means, because I dont. But if it IS based on religious terms, I agree with most people above, that its about Jesus' crucifixion. It really does make a LOT of sense when you look at it that way. But again, Im not an expert, so dont take my word for it. Just something to think about, more less.