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Tourniquet Lyrics
I tried to kill my pain
But only brought more (so much more) I lay dying And I'm pouring crimson regrets and betrayal I'm dying Praying Bleeding And screaming Am I too lost to be saved? Am I too lost? My god, my tourniquet Return to me salvation My god, my tourniquet Return to me salvation Do you remember me? Lost for so long Will you be on the other side Or will you forget me? I'm dying Praying Bleeding And screaming Am I too lost to be saved? Am I too lost? My god, my tourniquet Return to me salvation My god, my tourniquet Return to me salvation (Return to me salvation) (I want to die) My god, my tourniquet Return to me salvation My god, my tourniquet Return to me salvation My wounds cry for the grave My soul cries for deliverance Will I be denied? Christ Tourniquet My suicide |
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11-09-2009
So all in all, you can't argue that there's a certian small aspect of a religion in there.
but that's just my definition. what do i know?
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08-20-2009
If you wanna tell me people who are mentally ill and kill themselves go to some kind of invisible hell, you're fucked up.
11-09-2009
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08-20-2009
Amy Lee has said all of their songs are about Life Experiences, not secret messages.
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08-20-2009
“There are people that are hell-bent on the idea that we’re a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message,” singer Amy Lee said. “We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It’s simply about life experience.” Lee adds, “I guarantee that if the Christian bookstore owners listened to some of those songs, they wouldn’t sell the CD.” Guitarist Ben Moody added, “I’m not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band. We’re actually high on the Christian charts, and I’m like, What the fu** are we even doing there?”
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07-30-2009
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07-24-2009
The song, at first listen, completely turned me off because I am in fact not Christian and strongly believing in just humanity and against the theory of there being gods.
I interpret it as a time in my life when I wasn't too sure either way. More breaking apart from my strongly Catholic family and exploring what my true beliefs were.
I have gone through depression since fourth grade, so I instantly bring that into my opinion. To me, the person in the pov of which this song is in is maybe suicidal, but most definitely depressed and self-harming, wondering if it is the only way to numb the pain. Wanting there to be a god, but maybe they are too far from the light to either feel his presence or hear his words of guidance and asking for some kind of salvation.
Yep. An Atheist's interpretation.
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06-30-2009
07-08-2009
This is what Amy Lee has to say about this song:
"A lot of our songs are written in a way that you could take them to mean several different things. That one was written by our drummer Rocky [Gray], who was in a Christian death metal band before he joined us. He told me that it is coming from a Christian standpoint, but it's about suicide. It's from the perspective of someone who has just committed suicide and it's about the controversy in Christianity that if you commit suicide, will you go to heaven or hell? If all sins are forgiven after accepting Christ, why would there be an exception?"
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06-16-2009
I think that a lot of ppl are rite about this song: tht it is about trying to commit suicide but failing and then asking God for forgiveness (if I'm wrong about tht a lot of ppl saying this, srry but I didn't bother reading all the comments). I think tht this song could also about someone who's a cutter but hasn't commited suicide yet because they are torn between just giving up and dying and asking God for forgiveness and for the strength to carry on but preventing them from being totally assured of being saved is the fact tht they think tht because they've hurt themselves so much already, God wouldn't forgive them because they think they aren't worthy. I mean... "My wounds cry for the grave! My soul cries for delieverence! Will I be denied? Christ. Tourniquet. My suicide."? It seems pretty obvious to me.
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06-16-2009
I think that a lot of ppl are rite about this song: tht it is about trying to commit suicide but failing and then asking God for forgiveness (if I'm wrong about tht a lot of ppl saying this, srry but I didn't bother reading all the comments). I think tht this song could also about someone who's a cutter but hasn't commited suicide yet because they are torn between just giving up and dying and asking God for forgiveness and for the strength to carry on but preventing them from being totally assured of being saved is the fact tht they think tht because they've hurt themselves so much already, God wouldn't forgive them because they think they aren't worthy. I mean... "My wounds cry for the grave! My soul cries for delieverence! Will I be denied? Christ. Tourniquet. My suicide."? It seems pretty obvious to me.
06-16-2009
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04-29-2009
11-09-2009
i think in this song, she's saying God's Her tourniquet "Will I be denied? Christ. My tourniquet. my suicide" the whole "Christ, my tourniquet," I think are trying to be conveyed as synonyms above all else. even if Evanescence isn't Christian i think that's what they're portraying. but that may be just me
....this coming from an agnostic standpoint.
(I didn't know which you meant, metaphorical sense of the song or literal sense of the word tourniquet, so i gave both ^.^" and your welcome)
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04-05-2009
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04-02-2009
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03-26-2009
She wants salvation, but at the end she kills herself because salvation never came
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12-05-2008
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10-27-2008
My favorite part of the song is when she says
"Pouring Crimson Regret"
I thought it meant that when you cut your self obviously you bleed-crimson and she regreted it.
"cure the pain but only brought more."
I personally went through all of this. and this song was on my CD player all the time. Not sure if all my interperations of the song are correct but to my personal belives this song is absoulely REAL and TRUE. I didnt know if god would forgive me for the acts I did. or i would be "denied Christ" im not very religious and im still confused with it all but i do apprciate everything that God has given me and i didnt want him to think that i wasnt even if i did kill myself.
all i can say is that this is an amazing song so anyone who has not listened to it should. lol
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10-23-2008
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10-22-2008
11-09-2009
to the point, i lie your theory. "Going Under" talks about a very controlling person, "Imaginary" is ehr depression because (to my understanding) some depressed people make little imaginary worlds that they escape to when enough gets to be enough. and with cutters their little world to pain to know they're alive and all that jazz. and then that would lead up to "Tourniquet" for if the situation wasn't handled or wasn't handled properly it could lead to the person commiting suicide from frustraition and misery, and while in all that pain they realize this is not what they want and they start begging forgiveness to be let into Heaven when they arive at the Pearly Gates.
Heaven and Hell, bullshit things in my book-Agnostic here
but still, interesting point.
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09-30-2008
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08-31-2008
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08-11-2008
but i feel like talking! :D
A tourniquet is something used to stop bleeding of severe wounds, of course like 2343 have already said that
this song obviously talks about self affliction, thus the reference to a tourniquet
"My God, My Tourniquet" "Christ, Tourniquet"
Christ is obviously the tourniquet
Christ is the only one who can heal the wounds of the afflicted person the song is talking about
The point of whether this is somebody dying from suicide, or if it's somebody dying to their sing is debatable
I wouldn't try to interpret that
I could very well be written that way
Anyway...yeah
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07-30-2008
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07-16-2008
It's about a girl committing suicide and she's asking God if he'll grant her salvation since she took her own life.
AND, they're NOTTTTTT a Christian band. Geez.
12-20-2008
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07-16-2008
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06-16-2008
Either way, I love this song and 'Fallen' is one of my favourite albums ever.
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05-21-2008
tried to kill my pain
But only brought more
I lay dying
And I'm pouring crimson regrets and betrayal
this is sayig how the person was in pain and tried to kill the pain by SI, but that only brought more pain, emotional and physical.
I'm dying
Praying
Bleeding
And screaming
Am I too lost to be saved?
Am I too lost?
this is saying that they are praying that they will stop bleeding and screaming because they are in so much pain. has she/he been doing it for so long that they will never stop?
Do you remember me?
Lost for so long
Will you be on the other side
Or will you forget me?
here he/she is talking to someone they knew well, asking has her/his sadness changed them so much that they aren't even them anymore?
My god, my tourniquet
Return to me salvation
this is saying that god was her tourinquet when she was hurting and now she SI her tourniquet is her god. she wants to just have god now, to see the light.
My wounds cry for the grave
My soul cries for deliverance
Will I be denied?
Christ
Tourniquet
My suicide
this is saying that he/she is in so much pain that she/he wants to die. her/his soul is crying to leave the earth or get better. she is passed tourniquets or religioun, just end the pain.
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