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Long lost words whisper slowly to me
Still can't find what keeps me here
When all this time I've been so hollow inside
I know you're still there
Watching me wanting me
I can feel you pull me down
Fearing you loving you
I won't let you pull me down
Hunting you I can smell you - alive
Your heart pounding in my head
Watching me wanting me
I can feel you pull me down
Saving me raping me
Watching me
ahh, feel you pull me down
ahh, I won't let you pull me down
Still can't find what keeps me here
When all this time I've been so hollow inside
I know you're still there
Watching me wanting me
I can feel you pull me down
Fearing you loving you
I won't let you pull me down
Hunting you I can smell you - alive
Your heart pounding in my head
Watching me wanting me
I can feel you pull me down
Saving me raping me
Watching me
ahh, feel you pull me down
ahh, I won't let you pull me down
Lyrics submitted by gothchick27
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You are right it IS based on what you have said.
Ha, don't Believe me, here is PR00F:
"Developed during the 2001-2002 demo sessions and later released as track #5 on Fallen. Based on a story written by Ben that served as an inspiration for Amy to write the lyrics.
Ben Moody’s Story about Haunted
Image:Vin1.jpg A little girl around 8 or 9 in a little white Easter dress is walking down a neighborhood street bouncing a little red ball. As she approaches an obviously deserted large house with a sinister demeanor, her attention moves from the ball to the house. Not paying attention to her bouncing, the ball hits the curb and ricochets toward the house. As she chases the little red ball toward the house, the ball picks up unnatural momentum and bounces right into the huge gaping front door. The little girl pauses for a moment, looks up at the house, which now appears to be staring down at her, and cautiously enters the house in search of her little red ball. as she slowly walks into the atrium, she surveys the decaying mess that once was obviously a beautiful mansion. She becomes mesmerized by the exquisite detail of every inch of the banister winding up the seemingly endless staircase in front of her. Suddenly her thoughts are broken by a horrifying commotion. She whips around to run out the front door, but finds only a blank wall where the door once stood. Frightened, she runs down the first hallway she sees, trying desperately to find a way out, but with every turn the world behind her changes, bending to the will of the house, so that even finding a path back to the atrium where she began becomes impossible. Terrified, the little girl sinks into a corner, puts her head in her hands, and weeps.
10 years later....
The little girl wakes up in a panic, now a young woman. Dirty, scarred. She's now clothed in black pants, work boots, and a black wife beater. Her skin is pale and dirty. Sun has not graced her flesh in over a decade. She wakes to find a meal placed on a dirty silver tray before her, just enough to sustain life, just like every morning before. Placed there by a figure she can only see in passing, around a corner, walking through a door.... a figure that has become her only friend, and her only hate. Her entire existence has become nothing but to hunt and destroy this shadow that keeps her here. As she hunts him relentlessly day after day, she becomes lost in the dichotomy of her being. This thing that keeps her here, this person that repeatedly rapes her mind and watches her when she sleeps, has become her only friend. For is this person left, she would cease to exist. For she live only to kill him. But lives only FOR him. Every day the house changes around her, so that every day she wakes in a foreign land. The only constant... is him. She hears his heart beating, she smells him, she can only think of finding him, but he is also the only thing she knows of love."
GREAT SONG . LUUUV IT
(When all this time I've been so hollow inside
I know you're still there
Watching me wanting me
I can feel you pull me down
Fearing you loving you
I won't let you pull me down)
She's just gotten over it but she's scared of slipping back into it.
Although I'm not saying this is an actual experience Amy Lee or someone in the band had (please don't think I'm implying that), this is just how I interpret the song.
ALSO IT'S AMAZINGLY AWESOME. :3
As for the interpretation, it could be about a person she remembers like TheGlass is 1/2full says, but I think it's more about fear and insecurity itself, and not letting it consume you or pull you down.
This is a great, although creepy song. I prefer a different interpretation than the girl/deserted house thing:
"Long lost words whisper slowly to me
Still can't find what keeps me here"
An important conversation, perhaps? She doesn't understand why she dwells on it over and over.
"When all this time I've been so hollow inside
I know you're still there"
Most of us have people we are uncomfortable with. Sometimes, those people stay in our memories much longer than they should.
The lyric "I won't let you pull me down" means the person is sabotaging her efforts to heal/live a normal life, whether on purpose or not. She is saying "I wont let you drag me down with you. "
"Watching me, wanting me
I can feel you pull me down
Saving me, raping me
Watching me"
This person wont leave her mind, and is constantly there. She feels it is seriously effecting her. She's so hollow, the idea of someone being there is on one level, "saving her" Or perhaps it was meant sarcastically? On another level, this person's constant prescence is killing/stealing of part of her.
Well, what do you think of my interpretation?