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Way down
I've been way down
Underneath this skin
Waiting to hear my name again
I'm sorry
Nothing can hold me
I adore you still
If I hear them calling
And nothing can hold me
Way down (Do you really want me?)
All the way down (Do you really want me?)
I will hear your voice (Do you really want me?)
But I'll no longer understand (No one's really loved me)
I'm sorry
Nothing can hold me
I adore you still
But I hear them calling
I was looking to the sky
When I knew I'd be swimming home
And I cannot betray my kind
They are here, it's my time
I'm sorry
Nothing can hold me (Do you really want me?)
I adore you still
But I hear them calling, (calling)
And nothing can hold me
I've been way down
Underneath this skin
Waiting to hear my name again
I'm sorry
Nothing can hold me
I adore you still
If I hear them calling
And nothing can hold me
Way down (Do you really want me?)
All the way down (Do you really want me?)
I will hear your voice (Do you really want me?)
But I'll no longer understand (No one's really loved me)
I'm sorry
Nothing can hold me
I adore you still
But I hear them calling
I was looking to the sky
When I knew I'd be swimming home
And I cannot betray my kind
They are here, it's my time
I'm sorry
Nothing can hold me (Do you really want me?)
I adore you still
But I hear them calling, (calling)
And nothing can hold me
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Track duration: 03:44
"Swimming Home" as written by William Barry Hunt Amy Lee
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In ''Even In Death'' we have a lover that is lamenting over the fact he/she is left on Earth without her other half (which has apparently died).And in ''Swimming Home'' the died lover,who is between the world of the living and the dead explains that he will always adore his soulmate and would wait for him'/her in between dimensions if only these ''other people from his/her kind werent calling out''.This is either his Family,already passed to the other side and impatient to see their relative or some kind of Reapers or Undead Regulators which cant allow souls to stay in between dimensions for too long.
Nevertheless,epic song,
Way down
I've been way down
Underneath this skin
Waiting to hear my name again
The Selkie is a beautiful woman who wears for most of her live the skin of a seal, coming to the beach to sing mournfully.
I'm sorry
nothing can hold me
I adore you still
but I hear them calling
and nothing can hold me
In most of the stories, the Selkie is called home eventually, by either seals or her own kind.
A long shot, but...
It reminds me so much of transgendered people. If your parents/peers/etc say things like, "Your life would be so much easier if..." then you would you have to make the change all on your very lonesome (swim an ocean all on your own). Look at the song like the true self talking to the wrong sex and wrong gender that the parents/society have tried to build. And you can't hate that person because that's your past--always a part of you "I adore you still..."
The lines "I will no longer understand" could mean 'I don't understand the members of the sex I was born as" and "I can not betray my kind"..."I can not pretend to be a boy/girl and act like the other is stupid".
And then "way down underneath this skin is" is obvious...even though I could have sworn she said "weighed down".
From Evanescene website
"Way down, I've been way down
underneath this skin
waiting to hear my name again"
She's hidden herself and evanescence under her skin, and pushed it down. But Evanescence is her, and she's been waiting for something to call her back to that life.
"I'm sorry
nothing can hold me
I adore you still
but I hear them calling
and nothing can hold me"
This is Amy telling her husband that she's decided to go back to the band and the rockstar life. He's held her in that life for a while, and she still loves him, but she hears the fans, the band, and whoever else calling her back. And maybe before she had reservations, but now she is committed to it.
"I was looking to the sky
when I knew I'd be swimming home
and I cannot betray my kind
They are here
It's my time"
"I cannot betray my kind" The musicians, the fans, the rockstars are her kind. She tried not living that life for a while, but now it's called her back. She's swimming on home, back to the stage, leaving her husband behind, but still loving him.
Turning suddenly dreamy, “Swimming Home” is a a loving goodbye from someone who is dying. When speaking to Kerrang about “Swimming Home” she discussed the song’s meaning. “It’s goodbye,” she said. “It’s partly about the acceptance of death. I love that song because it’s not angry and it’s not perfectly happy. It’s sad but it’s accepting the things in life that are hard – like someone leaving this world and feeling the peace of crossing over.” “Erase This” walks through the landscape of needing to burn it all down and start over.
actually, to me, the whole album seems inspired by the struggle between her husband and Evanescence. i was left with the feeling that Amy Lee will either divorce or that Evanescence will disband. but it's just one of the many possible interpretations and hopefully we are both wrong :)
to FaeFae: even the meaning behind the words in that interview could be interpreted in a lot of different ways. you can never know what goes on in a human's mind, let alone the mind of a professional artist. peace!
The song just before this is "Never Go Back" and Amy has confirmed that "Never Go Back" was inspired by the Japanese tsunami that occurred earlier this year. Well, I was listening to "Never Go Back" with that in mind and then "Swimming Home" came on and everything clicked.
"Never Go Back" is from the perspective of someone losing the one they love in the tsunami.
"Swimming Home" is from the point of view of the person drowning. A response to the previous song. It all makes sense.
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My Translation (for simplicity's sake, I'll make it a man and the "Never Go Back" person a woman):
"Way down, I've been way down
underneath this skin
waiting to hear my name again"
----> He's sinking beneath the water, sinking way down, waiting for someone to help him.
"I'm sorry
nothing can hold me
I adore you still
but I hear them calling
and nothing can hold me"
----> He doesn't want to leave his her, but there's nothing that can hold him to this life. He's telling her that he still loves her and that he's sorry that he can't stay, because he's being called to the other side.
Way down, all the way down
I will hear your voice
but I'll no longer understand
----> Again, he's sinking down, down...he can hear her screaming for him, but the water muffles the sound and he can't understand what she's saying.
"I was looking to the sky
when I knew I'd be swimming home
and I cannot betray my kind
They are here
It's my time"
----> He was hanging on, trying to stay afloat, trying to escape. He looked to the sky and knew that he wasn't going to be able to hold on. He was going to die. He was going to sink to the bottom, to what was once his home, now submerged in the ocean waves. His friends and family have already drowned and they're there, waiting for him.
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The Japanese tsunami broke my heart when it happened. I donated what little I could afford to them. So, listening to this song in that context brought me to tears. It's so incredibly sad, because I'm sure this exact scene had actually played out many times during the tsunami.