Evanescence: Bring Me To Life Meaning

Song Released: 2003

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Bring Me To Life Lyrics

How can you see into my eyes like open doors?
Leading you down into my core
Where I’ve become so numb
Without a soul
My spirit's sleeping somewhere cold
Until you find it there and lead it back home

(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I...

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   anonymous

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   Sep 22nd, 2009 9:41pm report

   
   

   I belive that these lyrics try to explain the feeling of emptiness left behind when someone that we love leaves.
   The feeling that our soul also left with that person, and that we're nothing that way. Just an empty, cold, dark thing.
   And, to live (not just to survive), we need that person to be with us, by our side.
   That, basically, that someone is everyting we are.

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Sep 14th, 2009 9:50pm report

   
   

   Can people stop referring their songs to Christianity it's not a Christian band. It's lame. They have said that. Please stop. it's annoying.

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   anonymous

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   Jul 1st, 2009 7:07am report

   
   

   Like many others, I have a different interpretation of this song. I consider this as being my Evanescence theme song because it fits how I feel very well. Here's what the lyrics mean to me:
   
   "How can you see into my eyes, like open doors? Leading you down into my core, where I've become so numb."
   
   To me, this means: People will look into my eyes like open doors but will miss my emotion and the real me hidden behind my eyes. It'll lead them down into my core but they won't feel how numb I feel without myself.
   
   "Without a soul, my spirit's sleeping somewhere cold. Until you find it there and lead it back home."
   
   To me, this means: I usually feel without a soul. I feel like my spirit's somewhere. In a way, I'd say my spirit's in the computer. This is where I am awake. But it's like being awake in a dream. It's like my spirit's lost, not with me and needs to be led back to me.
   
   "Wake me up. Wake me up inside. I can't wake up. Wake me up inside. Save me. Call my name and save me from the dark. Wake me up. Bid my blood to run. I can't wake up. Before I come undone. Save me. Save me from the nothing I've become."
   
   To me, this means: I feel like I need to wake up. I feel like I'm asleep. I feel like I need to be waken up inside where my soul is sleeping. But I also feel like I can't wake up. I also feel like I need to be saved. I feel like my blood is frozen inside my veins and I need it to run before I truly become unreal. I feel like I've become nothing. I feel like without my soul, I'm truly nothing.
   
   "Now that I know what I'm without, you can't just leave me. Breathe into me and make me real. Bring me to life."
   
   To me, this means: I've learned that I'm without my soul and that the people in my life and myself can't leave me. I feel like I need to be made real. Like my soul needs to be brought to life, bringing me to life.
   
   "Bring me to life. I've been livin' a lie. There's nothing inside. Bring me to life. Frozen inside without your touch, without your love darling. Only you are the life among the dead."
   
   To me, this means: I feel like I need to be brought to life. That I've been living a lie. I feel like there's nothing inside. I feel frozen without my soul and without its love. But my soul is the life among the dead in a way.
   
   "All this time, I can't believe I couldn't see. Kept in the dark, but you were right in front of me. I've been sleeping a thousand years it seems, got to open my eyes to everything. Without a thought, without a soul, without a life, don't let me die here. There must be something more."
   
   To me, this means: For years I couldn't see who I really was. So to speak, I was "kept in the dark" but my soul was "right in front of me". Knowing who I was made me feel like I'd been asleep one thousand years and that I have to open my eyes, finally. I feel without a thought, without a soul, and without a lie and I don't want my soul to die. I know there must be something more for my soul.
   
   Well, that was my interpretation on the song...

   
   
   
   

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   MrDsclass

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   May 28th, 2009 5:37pm report

   
   

   A girl who fears of her loneliness. It says "wake me up," several times, so I assume she wants to feel alive again - M
   
   It's about someone who was dumped. She is asking for someone else to get with her because it says "breathe into me" and then she says "don't let me die here. There must be something more." That means that she doesn't want to end her life there, just because she got dumped. - L
   
   I think she's really unhappy and after she found what she was looking for she doesn't want to lose him, or what she is missing, because then she is going to be unhappy and have a dull life. For example: "Now that I know that I'm without you can't just leave me. Breathe into me and make me real." - Z

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   May 21st, 2009 5:46pm report

   
   

   I say its about Ben Moody, if anyone here thinks there was never anything more than friendship there.. well then your nuts, but it is SOOO not about GOD!!!

   
   
   
   

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   Victoria_cj

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   Mar 20th, 2009 3:56am report

   
   

   This song reminds me of vampires, especially the first verse:
   'Without a soul, my spirit sleeping somewhere cold...' etc etc etc and whatnot.
   
   This is one of my favourite Evanescences.

   
   
   
   

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   savant

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   Jan 5th, 2009 1:01am report

   
   

   Oh and also Evanescence was at one point labelled a Christian rock band, although basically they said that wasn't what their intentions were. On the other hand heaps of their songs can be viewed in a Christian viewpoint which is interesting. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

   
   
   
   

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   savant

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   Jan 5th, 2009 1:58am report

   
   

   I think that yes, the song title speaks for itself, but also didn't she say that Josh Hartzler inspired the song? Or was it Ben Moody... I forget... Either way, the whole "Bring Me To Life" thing kinda states a will to become alive, a will to stop just exsisting, and start living. That's what I think, but hey.

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   anonymous

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   Nov 21st, 2008 11:09am report

   
   

   even though i know Evanescance isn't a christian band, i can't help but think in a way this song is written to god,though in no way is it to glorify him.

   
   
   
   

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    Aly

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    Nov 5th, 2008 11:34pm report

    
    

    Ya Amy was at a restraunt meeting a friend of a friend and the person asked her if she was happy. She felt like he could see right throught her and everything about her. Amy says that he "Woke her up inside". She later said it was about her husband, Josh Hartzler

    
    
    
    

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    anonymous

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    Oct 2nd, 2008 10:29pm report

    
    

    I just want to add to the last person....the "empty" inside, the numbness...it's someone with BPD Borderline Personality Disorder. They are looking for someone to save them because they have an empty soul.

    
    
    
    

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    someonesister

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    Sep 21st, 2008 9:38am report

    
    

    This song is about numbness. Depersonalization that you get. It makes you feel dead inside. Unreal. Afraid.
    
    Wanting someone to reach in and take you out of the void you are in.
    
    It is emptiness. "Save me from the nothing I've become".
    
    "I've been living a lie....there's nothing inside"
    
    
    it is terrifying. why can everyone else feel and you can't.

    
    
    
    

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    anonymous

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    May 19th, 2008 5:15pm report

    
    

    I think it's about a guy who she loves and he's taking over her. But...He doesn't lover her back. ya know,
    
    without a soul
    my spirit sleeping somewhere cold
    UNTIL U FIND IT THERE AND LEAD IT BACK HOME!
    
    and the don't let me die here part? She means she can't live without him! If he's not here? What's she gonna do? That's my interpretation. DEAL WIT IT!

    
    
    
    

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    anonymous

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    Jan 3rd, 2008 1:53pm report

    
    

    To be honest, I really think the song title kind of speaks for itself. That is what I think.

    
    
    
    

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    anonymous

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    Dec 9th, 2007 12:07am report

    
    

    "Bring Me to Life", is inspired by an incident that occurred while she was sitting in a restaurant. Lee has also recently stated that the song was written about her old friend, and now husband, Josh.