Lyrics for My Immortal as interpreted by cailin

My Immortal Lyrics
i'm so tired of being here
suppressed by all my childish fears
but if you have to leave
i wish that you would just leave
'cause your prescence still lingers here
and it won't leave me alone

these wounds won't seem to heal
this pain is just too real
there's just too much that time cannot erase

when you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears
i held your hand through all of these years
but you still have...all of me

you used to captivate me
by your resonating light
now i'm bound by the life you left behind
your face, it haunts
my once pleasant dreams
your voice, it's chased away
all the sanity in me

these wounds won't seem to heal
this pain is just too real
there's just too much that time cannot erase

when you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears
i held your hand through all of these years
but you still have all of me

i've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
but though you're still with me
i've been alone all along

when you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears
i held your hand through all of these years
but you still have...all of me
all of me
all of me
all...

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cut_and_bleeding
05-18-2005

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"Brad",στο αφιερώνω γιατι θα φύγεις και θα με ξεχάσεις....

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varkaard
05-20-2005

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This song reminds me of my dearest friend, who passed away three years ago from a 25 year struggle with cancer. We were/are sisters of the heart! We grew older together. We raised our families, through good times and bad, together. And if you are very, very lucky you will find a lifetime friend that you understand and that understands you, completely. For me, the phrase “I’ve tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone but though you're still with me I’ve been alone all along” makes me think of the loneliness of our life’s struggle and that even with our need for each other, and our struggle to find understanding and acceptance, we are all bound to begin life alone, and leave it, alone. So when you reach the autumn of your life and your dearest friend precedes you in death and all the sense and sensibility that life held for you, you now must go on, to the end, alone. As you truly have been all along…

The beauty of this song is in the talent of the artist. It is amazing to me all the feeling this song invokes in so many people. We are all correct in what this song is about. It’s about what we need it to be about, for each of us. For me: (Jill, I was honored to have known you and to have held your hand through all of these years. We wiped away each other’s tears and fought away each other’s fears. Life is so very beautiful and so very painful, even when the beauty can be painful and the pain so beautiful. You still have all of me, my dearest friend.)

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traviswrdunbar
06-02-2005

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I love this song, but at the same time it drives me nuts. Not so much the song, but those freaking "Kidz Bop" albums they advertise on TV. They have a bunch of kids singing this song, and they couldn't possibly imagine the emotion this song contains.

And that is what makes this band, and very few others, so great. Amy actually means and feels the songs she sings. Most bands today are, sadly enough, out for the next big pop hit. So they sing to the soulless mob. Bands like this one call straight to your soul, reminding you of the pain , happiness, and myriad of other emotions you have felt in the past.

Kinda sad that it took a cheesy comic-movie with a song from their fifth album to bring them to the forefront.

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Charleh
06-06-2005

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Yuck yuck yuck, her voice is flat, and emotionless - it's too clinical, too trained - it's like listening to a choir singer. I don't know how you can express emotion when you are trying to sing a note as crisp and as straight as possible as is the case for these lot. It's precise, it ain't emotional. Plus, the song is played way too much on the radio and it does my head in. It's a little better than most crap thats out there, but I don't know how anyone can say anything good about a band who releases an album with about 7 filler tracks on it. If you want feeling and emotion, listen to Down: NOLA/Down II or pick up the latest Machine Head album, that thing is a masterpiece!

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Charleh
06-06-2005

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Oh additionally the lyrics are crap.

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Rachondaloose
06-08-2005

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these wounds won't seem to heal
this pain is just too real
there's just too much that time cannot erase

So Powerful. God i love this song. the music is almost sinister!!! amy lee sarah mclachlan n enya have these mindblowing voices.
this song is addicting. lose yourself



Live to Love. Love To Live

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Gummy
06-20-2005

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Okay, I got bored of reading at Page 5. for those guys asking at the beginning, Amy and ben arent lovers, just close friends, but they did date in highschool. Amy's little sister Bonnie (i think) died when they were kids so it might be about that. except that Ben Moody wrote the song.
I think the My Immortal is my immortal love for this person, who has died, or maybe just broken up. lets work on the death theory first (thats always popular).

In this case the Immortal could be refering to their memory or their spirit hanging around. this is supported by the lines: "'cause your prescence still lingers here
and it won't leave me alone"
and
"now i'm bound by the life you left behind
your face, it haunts..."

maybe it's about a lover who died and now the griever can't ever love anyone else because they 'still have all of'(them). and she's 'tried so hard to tell her self he's gone' and tried to move on, but theres 'too much that time can't erase'. she remembers their love and the times they had 'you cried...'

I've read a few people think it might be a mother-child thing, the 'you cried...' verse definately fits in there. you can imagine a grieving mother who keeps finding little mementos and reminders, like photos or drawings of/from her child: 'your presence still lingers here'

the break up idea also fits in: obviously she was in love with this person, and maybe they still see each other but don't talk which makes the pain so much worse. remembering old times and feelings that remain, taking time to get over them.
but maybe realising that he never loved her in the first place "I've been alone all along". this realisation driving the person mad: 'chased away all the sanity...'.

Whatever angle you want to look at it from, its a fantastic song from a fantastic artist, very moving. Its a Love song, about commitment or unconditional love, or even the unfairness and cruelty of our feelings and love.

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chels15
07-01-2005

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sound like its about me and my exi'm so tired of being here
suppressed by all my childish fears
but if you have to leave
i wish that you would just leave
'cause your prescence still lingers here
and it won't leave me alone

these wounds won't seem to heal
this pain is just too real
there's just too much that time cannot erase

when you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears
i held your hand through all of these years
but you still have...all of me

you used to captivate me
by your resonating light
now i'm bound by the life you left behind
your face, it haunts
my once pleasant dreams
your voice, it's chased away
all the sanity in me

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Bunny- -Brown
07-14-2005

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I ADORE Evanescence and this song will always be among my favorites! However Hello moves me as well as Tourniquet. I love her voice which holds amazing quality..her voice can carry better than most I have heard with the exception of enya who I also adore..this song is absolutely gorgeus!

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Froggies
07-16-2005

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i love this song..its one of my favorties...the video is also amazing..i love the whole black and white thing...but to me this song is aobut someone who has lost a vvery important person be it a lover or a frend...i have herd taht this song is based on a short story written by former band member ben moody...which makes perfect sense to me...

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pinktink
07-16-2005

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wicked shit people wicked shit!

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Froggies
07-16-2005

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i forgot to ask b4...has ne one herd the acusic version of this..OMFG it is amazing....download it ppl....you wont regret it...

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youngzoe
07-16-2005

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I listened to this song in daredevil first and then i saw it then I bought it but in the top of all I liked it it's ther song of losing somebody dear to me

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myimmortal
08-23-2005

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Is an incredibly sad song

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imtay
08-27-2005

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it moved me in away i can't explain amy lee's voice is amazing i don't think she understands how much her music impacts on people

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imtay
08-28-2005

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mrs jeans has saggy hairy fish tits and she has a penis like a hook she leads people down into her dungeon and rapes them she also wants to eat witneys mum

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phil676
09-10-2005

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Its bin doin me head in the fact no1 has said exactly what this is about!!!just that they think its amazin! which it is like but at least say wot u think its abot!!!! sshe used 2 be with some1 in the band, and basically she loved him badly and he didnt at all, she felt like the whole relationship was bollocks because he got wit some1 else an was thinkin bout some1 else the whole time when she was thinkin bout him. feel gutted 4 her like, bin there dun that! "shit on, not the shatter!" :-) easy 2 relate 2. its hard gettin over some1 u loved, in fact its a fukin cunt! badly. amazin song though, am really gud song 2 listen 2 if ya feelin crap

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greenspider
09-15-2005

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Know what you mean phil. Reckon it works on another level 2 - about losing her religion. (REM, we need some input here).

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athanatis
10-06-2005

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I think the key to understanding this song is that amazing verse near the end...

I think there's someone she really loves and cares about, almost like how a mother loves a child, and she always thought they loved her back, but then she found out they were tricking her, that they never loved her at all... maybe they were just using her love... 'I've been alone all along' - I think it means literally that through all that time that she's known the person, she hasn't had them as a real friend.

I don't think anyone's actually died or is about to die. The bit on telling 'myself that you're gone' doesn't have to literally mean they're dead, just that they're not there anymore for her, emotionally speakign. Besides, the line just after that says 'you're still with me'. Maybe that person hasn't even physically left her, it's just that she now knows they're completely shut off from her, and it's always been that way.

And she loves them so much that even after finding out she's been betrayed she still loves them ('but you still have all of me'), and the song's about her trying to end her love for someone who doesn't love her back.

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greenspider
10-06-2005

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Athanatis, try listening to 'My Immortal' as a prayer (could there be a clue in the title?). Your explanation still fits, but in an inside-out sort of way: What if the lover was Christ? Once, Amy invested her whole life in him. Now her faith is gone and she feels devastated, betrayed, empty: she had got it all wrong from the beginning and had lived a lie - she had never really loved him.
And yet, he's still there for her. And somehow she still can't let him go, because he'll always be there - waiting, loving.

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freakyshe_freakyme
10-08-2005

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i love this song so beautiful i think it is about someone who has died or maybe a person loved and lost. my friend can play it on the piano and sounds so amazing. one of my favourite songs.

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athanatis
10-10-2005

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Greenspider, do you mean there are actually *two* people in the song, and the chorus is Christ's voice while the rest is Amy's? It's an interesting interpretation; I don't think I've ever come across it before.

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Tyler2004durden
10-11-2005

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I just rediscovered this song two days ago. I was watching "Daredevil" and suddenly i heard "My Immortal" playing in one of the scenes. I had forgotten the song because I'm not the big Evanescence fan, but this song really toughed me. It's a beautiful version playing in the movie. The strings really does justice to the song.

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greenspider
11-07-2005

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Athanatis, I had heard the chorus as Amy empathising with Christ's suffering, but maybe two voices makes more sense if there's anything to this interpretation/

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Its me Its DDP
11-13-2005

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this is like the saddest damn song on the planet, i mean 2 times and i have to change songs, to ya know avoid water works or whatever

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