Evanescence: My Immortal Meaning
Song Released: 2003
My Immortal Lyrics
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
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is...
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This song was written by Ben Moody about his grandmother. He's mentioned this in many a interview.
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its about her sister spirit and amy wants her sister to move on and not stay hear. tell her sister that when she died she had pain and it wont heal.and that all the memories that amy had of her sister can't be erased. Every time she hears her sister cried she was their and every time her sister was afraid she tried to comfort her. Even though her sister is dead she is reminding her sister that she still has her.every time she heard her sister's voice she goes crazy or when she sees her sister's face it still haunts her. then repeats what she says .then she said tat she tries to tell her self that her sister is not hear anymore .
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I found in this song the words my heart felt but my brain was unable to define after the suicide of my son's father. He battled undiagnosed depression throughout his teen years. I did what I knew how to do to try to help, but I was struggling myself. The presence of him that lingers is the guilt of wondering if you did all you could or God forbid, make it worse. The one question every suicide victim's loved ones is haunted by everyday.....WHY???? My son is now almost a man.....I am bound by the life he helped create but chose to leave behind......His eyes and most other features are his father's. Though my son brings me such joy, I will be haunted by his father for as long as I am alive. Everytime I look in his eyes, its his father looking back at me...almost 18a years now, and he still has all of me that matters...
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I have listened to this a thousand times trying to find its meanings. To me this is about the two faces of a person with depression. There is always the part of a depressed one that wants to be happy and live life with some joy and there is the other side that has always made that person alone and seeing the dark side no matter how strongly the "normal" side tries to leave the depression behind. The classic battle of dark and light, both in one person. It sure fit that life's application for me..
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This song to me is about ones inner child. As an adult Not being able to reconnect with a part of you that you are aware is still inside of you! The memories still linger and the hurt is still so real...when people face traumatic experiences or are emotionally neglected as a child they tend to disconnect to protect our most precious, delicate inner self, the child within. Time can not erase what has happened to us! Until we reconnect and heal our fears will always remain...We want to forget so bad, but we cant! Listen to the song again...again
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I'm so tired of being here
Amy is saying I want to move on with my life.
Suppressed by all my childish fears
Im tired of being held back by all my fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
Amy is saying I want to be left alone to life my life how I want
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
I still have all the memories of you and cant let go
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
I will never get over losing you.
[Chorus:]
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
I was there for you and you took everything when you left me
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
The pain of losing you has driven me insane
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
[Chorus]
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 -
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OMG The interpretations are so dead on to what I felt the song was and exactly what I feel I am going threw myself. I was in love gave him everything and he destroyed me. Funny how songs speak to us
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Not so much an interpretation, as an application. I once met a woman who's husband had been in a car accident and severely brain damaged. He was left with the IQ of a 5 year old and had to be constantly tended to as such.
The woman divorced him, but could not abandon him. She tended him as a son instead of the husband she once knew. It was a few years after meeting her that I first heard this song. As I sought my own meaning and take on this song, her story came back to mind. Torn between the love and respect she once had for her strong husband, and the hard trials of tending a child in an adult's body. The lyrics largely made sense to me for her case. -
I think it's about dealing with a suicide...
It's from a parent's point of view, to their child who recently committed suicide. Just read the lyrics with that thought and you'll see.
Although according to Wikipedia, Ben Moody wrote it about his deceased grandfather. -
I really think it's about the death of a lover. Another Ev song with a similar meaning might be Even In Death, or check out RED's Hymn for the Missing. "I'm so tired of being here, suppressed by all my childish fear, and if you have to leave, I wish that you would just leave, cos your presence still lingers here, and it won't leave me alone"- I remember you, I'll always remember you, but since you're gone, it hurts to remember you. "When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears, when you screamed I'd fight away all if your fears, and I held your hand through all of these years, you still have all of me"- I loved you in life, and I will always love you even beyond death. "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"- Our feelings were so strong that I cannot let go if them now, even though they are tormenting me. Chorus- previously explAined. "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"- I can't accept your death, not yet, but someday I will, and maybe then I'll realize that perhaps this wasn't meant to be after all. Chorus- previously explained.
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She liked this guy like crazy and did everything she could for him but he left her and shes going crazy because the thoughts of him never go away. She refuses to accept that he left her because she thinks about his so much he may as well be right there but then she realizes all this time, shes been alone and cant lie to herself anymore and pretend he's still by her side :'( so sad.
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lets do this line by line
"I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears"
this line is saying amy is tired of being afraid of losing someone who has already left her which leads into the next line
"And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
Your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone"
she feels all alone like someone close to her has left her with a gaping hole in her chest and they are still a huge part of her life
"These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase"
this is basically saying time cant erase everything that this person did to amy the pain is so raw and its not going away and it torments her
"When you cry I'd wipe away all of your tears"
this line is very self explanitory she was very close to a person who is no longer with her she was a shoulder to cry on for this person and they are no longer in her life
"When you scream I'd fight away all of your fears"
amy would protect this person by making anything that scared them dissappear
"And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me"
this person was with her for so long and now they have left her she feels like she has no hand to hold nothing left of what used to be but this person still has everything
"You used to captivate me
By your resonating light"
now this could be "light" as in this person was always so happy and was the light of her life or it could be "light" as in everything good that happened to amy when she had this person in her life
"Now I'm bound by the life you left behind"
she feels like her life is all that she has left of herself but her life isnt the way it should be or even close to the way it used to be
"Your face – it haunts
My once pleasant dreams"
at one point in her life amy used to have such great dream about this person but now those great times are painful because of the way things ended between the two of them
"Your voice – it chased away
All the sanity in me"
now this could be another singer she is talking about or it could be a person who was very outspoken about life and this haunts her because hearing this persons voice is painful
then we go back to some lyrics and then we have a chorus then we have this "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"
this is saying that amy is very hurt and she feels so alone and cant bear the pain of losing this person
hope my interpretation helps ya :D -
To me this song, the lyrics and the title, reflect the haunting memory of an adult abused as a child, trying to leave that frigntened child behind, thinking they have moved on but will carry the pain for life.
Everyone sees something different, we all come from different perspectives and experiences and this song relates to many painful situations, so we love it. -
It sounds like the death of a child, 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" I guess you could do that for an adult,or a sibling, but it makes more sense with a child...
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