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I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence 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
And 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 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
And 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
And I held your hand through all of these years
You still have all of me, me, me
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence 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
And 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 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
And 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
And I held your hand through all of these years
You still have all of me, me, me
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I'm so tired of being here / she is tired and sick of being on earth.
Suppressed by all my childish fears / She has fears and is sick of them
And if you have to leave I wish that you would just leave / He wants that person to just to leave her alone forever.
Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone / She doesn't want his presence to be there with her and it scares her and she wants it to leave
These wounds won't seem to heal, this pain is just too real / She feels broken and the she won't never heal .
There's just too much that time cannot erase / She wants the time to go back again in the past i think :?
When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears / When he cried she would make him feel better and wipes his tears away :')
When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears / When he is scared she would speak to him and fight away off his scary thoughts
I'm so tired of being here / she is tired and sick of being on earth.
Suppressed by all my childish fears / She has fears and is sick of them
And if you have to leave I wish that you would just leave / He wants that person to just to leave her alone forever.
Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone / She doesn't want his presence to be there with her and it scares her and she wants it to leave
These wounds won't seem to heal, this pain is just too real / She feels broken and the she won't never heal .
There's just too much that time cannot erase / She wants the time to go back again in the past i think :?
When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears / When he cried she would make him feel better and wipes his tears away :')
When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears / When he is scared she would speak to him and fight away off his scary thoughts
This song is about losing someone you really love, and they never really leave you.
This song really means a lot to me, my oldest brother loved Evanescence, and he died four years ago, yesterday. This song really reaches my heart, and makes me think of my older brother. I didn't know him very well, being in a big family, he being the oldest, and he sort of went off the deep end, ended up dying from a drug overdose. I really connect with this song, and I feel like it goes deep into me as a person. It's so beautifully heartbreaking, I can't help but start to cry when I hear it.
The fact that she had to hold this person, fight away their fears and wipe away their tears suggests the person was neurotic and unstable. They're described as being gone in the lyrics, so I think the person close to the singer committed suicide. They say suicide is 'contagious'. I think the music video is in black and white in order to reflect the fact that the singer is now overwhelmed with depression and grief and is suicidal themselves. The song is a very emotional one and it often leaves me feeling teary-eyed, personally.