Evanescence – Like You

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  General Comment:I strongly believe that the song was written for her sister, who died at age three from an unidentified illness.

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  General Comment:Too tragic and very emotionally pressing...

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  General Comment:this song has def made me think about what would happen if my sibling died. no one really knows how her sister died, but she makes this song very powerful and shes trying to hide her sorrows and greiving. maybe they were close to eachother. maybe thats why she wants to be with her. and "lie cold in the ground"
  
  "no matter what they told you you're not alone
  I'll be right beside you forevermore"
  
  this also caught my attention to the way people think of lost ones. they think that people are still here by spirit or by other things and the way of life after death continues. who knows. i wish i could met amy lee to talk to her about some of her songs. they are so beautiful.
  

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  General Comment:Hah, at the risk of sounding insensitive, I love this song for the sheer creepiness of it (like the suicide references). I've lost very dearly loved ones before (and had those "long to be like you" moments), but I still can't cry when I hear this song. It's not a sad song for me. I mean, afterall, "all paths lead straight to you". We'll be together again one day... It almost makes me want to smile, "I'm not grieving for you, I'm coming for you."

  Flag AboveThePainon December 08, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:THIS song will always be remembered for me. i know now that i havent been alone.
  i never found a song that i related to 100% and this song i related to in every way.
  i wish i could thank amy lee in person and tell her that that song is just they way i feel
  ever since my sister passed away. loving someone and then losing them and letting them
  escape from your hands like air. it hurts more then anything i could ever imagine.
  RIP vanessa i love you

  Flag xXSEDATEDXxon June 13, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:is becuase of the death of her sister, i love the song is one of the best it have so much emotion it almost makes me want to cry

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  General Comment:Oh my god..I'm sooo in love with this song :].. The open door album was amazing, fallen is too! :] Amy Lee is my idol for everything she has went through..

  Flag xXpurplestrippedstockingzXxon April 06, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:the connection between siblings can be one of the most powerful and deepest you can ever have. this song to me and i guess from reading some of the other posts this girls sister died but to me this song is about that relationship being severed or strained but the connection is still there and the longing to be together or reconnected is needed even through death

  Flag innersaiton March 21, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:my brother died of cancer last year when i listen to this song it makes
  me feel someone else knows how i feel
  sometimes i wish i was there with him
  it's a very emotional song for me this part of it gets to me every time
  and as we lay in silent bliss
  I know you remember me
  I long to be like you
  lie cold in the ground like you
  
  

  Flag scouseon March 01, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:Amy Lee's sister died when Amy when only six. From what she's said this song is about her saying that she not only feels guilty for still being alive but that she misses her Sister and wants to die to be with her. In the song she's describing the overwhelming desire to commit suicide in order to be with a loved one forever. She also says that she'd rather not grieve; she'd rather go and be with her sister.
  
  This song has a deep meaning for me. Of course, the person I associate with it isn't dead, but I can relate to that obsessed feeling of needing to be with someone, just in a different sense.

  Flag HeartlessHatefulon January 03, 2009   Link

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