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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XioJade
08-03-2006

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I think the meaning of this song is dealing with the pain in your life and how it will get better later on.

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dan_000
07-29-2006

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This song is a real peice of talent and amy makes it in to a truely wonderful sensation i will forever love this song!!!

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miamigringo
07-26-2006

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this song is just beautiful!

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drcheezeball
07-26-2006

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Ok, I seem to always put this and I will do it again, since this is my all time favorite song. But with this song, like any song really, the meaning is what you want it to be. Amy Lee and everyone else involved with the making of this song will have "the meaning" but when you hear a song for the first time, you put it (or realte it) into your "own world". Another song I love is "hello". To me, that song is about depression and/or fighting it. But amy lee wrote it about her sister who died when she was real young. But I cant relate to that, so Im gonna stick with my meaning. Essentially, no one is right or wrong I guess.

My take on this song, she WAS in a relationship and it has ended. And now it becomes an internal battle for her between, for lack of words, pride vs love. She wants to just move on (" 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") and almost is getting defensive trying to reason to herself that the relationship is over. ("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")
But deep down inside she still loves him and doesnt want it to be over. ("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") She is stating here that she has tried and tried to accept and tell herself that it is over, but she just cant completely let it go and thats why its driving her insane. She still loves him but its over so she tries to tell herslf its over and maybe for the better but she doesnt truly feel that way.

Again, this is my take, Im sure amy lee may say that its not right, but this is how I interpret the song and thats how it means so much to me. (open door, just over 2 months away!)

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4everinlove
07-09-2006

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it's best song ever and amy has the sweetest boive i've ever heard

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actcohen
06-23-2006

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To start of my real name is Jacob. Every time I listen to it I hear my name in the intro. I also cry everytime I hear thins song. This is the world's sadest song. The way I see the song (I relate to myself) is about a bf/gf, family member, friends or ect... A that one person lost that friends or whoever they are. When I mean lost they could be dead or moved away. So that one person can't move on without them. They may have not known eacher well but they still love them in a way. They act as if they are the only other person in the world that is alive but they just died. One of the greatest song ever writen.

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theweasel
06-23-2006

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How could this song be about Death?
"but if you have to leave
i wish that you would just leave"

"but you still have...all of me"

"but though you're still with me"

Every one of those implies present tense, and someone still being alive.

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loop-to-loop
05-15-2006

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This song is boring...it was better when it only played three times on the radio. Even tho it does get better by the climax of the song when Amy says "Though your still with me, I've been alone all along" part.

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ih8clowns
04-06-2006

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i asked a bunch of people what they thought this song meant to them. my mom thinks that some dude left her, my dad thinks her boyfriend went to work, and my friend thinks that the girl's boyfriend died and is coming back to haunt her. i agree with my friend. she's trying to reconcile with herself by saying she did everything she could to help him like wiping away his tears, and fighting his fears and giving all of herself to him (her words not mine) and yet he still comes back to haunt her. so she just needs some grievance councelling then she'll be good to go get herself another biyfriend that dies and write a song about that.

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ColdenScence
03-27-2006

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I've once answer you, TrollMetal. so, "No Need To Argue" (yeah, The Cranberries)

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TrollMetal
03-22-2006

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Evanescence is just a mainstream band although not a bad band I wouldn’t put them as Gothic, all you people with Goth in your name or whatever, please get a clue. Lacuna Coil which has popped up a few times in this thread is an example of a good gothic metal band, their singer is a opera singer. My favourites are 'Heavens a Lie' and 'Swamped'.

Evanescence is popular because it fills the ultra mainstream void of darker angsty rock music with a female vocalist.

Amy Lee is alright singer but she is not opera quality, her voice hardly enchants me. The major problem for me though is that the rest of her band play some very bland rock music and at times do a truly horrible attempt at metal that makes even nu-metal rock. :(


For the record artists I like that are 'similar' to Evanescence and I use that very loosely are In Winter, Lacuna Coil, Nightwish, and Within Temptation, all of which incorporate female vocalists and dark lyrical themes, but these bands are considered to be symphonic metal/gothic metal rather than rock.

I would recommend listening to a few songs by Nightwish especially Nightwish - Nemo
the (opera) singer does a beautiful job.


Evanescence needs to stop thinking about selling records and concentrate more on gaining respect or wind up like so many mainstream bands and becoming has-beens.

Want to rant, dispute this, hate mail, fan mail, naked pictures, send it all to
isoldier20@hotmail.com

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TrollMetal
03-22-2006

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Evanescence is just a mainstream band although not a bad band I wouldn’t put them as Gothic, all you people with Goth in your name or whatever, please get a clue. Lacuna Coil which has popped up a few times in this thread is an example of a good gothic metal band, their singer is a opera singer. My favourites are 'Heavens a Lie' and 'Swamped'.

Evanescence is popular because it fills the ultra mainstream void of darker angsty rock music with a female vocalist.

Amy Lee is alright singer but she is not opera quality, her voice hardly enchants me. The major problem for me though is that the rest of her band play some very bland rock music and at times do a truly horrible attempt at metal that makes even nu-metal rock. :(


For the record artists I like that are 'similar' to Evanescence and I use that very loosely are In Winter, Lacuna Coil, Nightwish, and Within Temptation, all of which incorporate female vocalists and dark lyrical themes, but these bands are considered to be symphonic metal/gothic metal rather than rock.

I would recommend listening to a few songs by Nightwish especially Nightwish - Nemo
the (opera) singer does a beautiful job.


Evanescence needs to stop thinking about selling records and concentrate more on gaining respect or wind up like so many mainstream bands and becoming has-beens.

Want to rant, dispute this, hate mail, fan mail, naked pictures, send it all to
isoldier20@hotmail.com

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LaDiablo
03-09-2006

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BitterHandsResign/GravityAlwaysWins (you're either the same person or you're friends, whichever): XD Holy effing hell, that amuses me. Lovely interpretation there.

But if you do any more than insinuate Amy is fat I'll have to flame you for sheer incompetence =D.

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GravityAlwaysWins
03-04-2006

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i completely agree with BitterHandsResign. this song helped me through a difficult time in my own life, when i was struggling with my own weight problem. amy lee obviously understands how difficult it is, and i really respect her for writing a song about it.

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BitterHandsResign
03-04-2006

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I believe this sound is a touching elegy to Amy Lee's insufferable weight problem.

"I wish that you would just leave
'cause your prescence still lingers here
and it won't leave me alone"

Absolutely gorgeous lyrics.

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chicken_wing
02-16-2006

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I see how Amy Lee being a ghost in the video fits in with the song.

But I wanted to ask if anyone else thought that the video was similar to Christina Aguilera's 'The Voice Within'. Because there's the whole black and white theme, and the white dress walking through an empty town sorta thing. They even have the same hairstyle o.O.

I'm not saying that the songs have anything common but I was just wondering if anyone else thought the video's did.

Or is there some sort of friendship between the two artisits that I don't know about and they did this on purpose o.O

And I'm sorry if anyone has already commmented on this before and I'm making myself look stupid but I really didn't want to read 13 pages of comments.

I don't usually listen to any of Chrisitna's songs 'cause I basically don't like them (thought I'd add that incase someone has a rant at me for listening to pop when I'm on a rock type band thread) but 'Voice Within' is a pretty song and it isn't filled with the 'sexy type' of lyrics Chrsitina does like 'Dirtty'.

Also I think that 'Voice Within' was for a disney video, can't remember which one tho, so I think that's where FinchFever got his/her idea from.

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AliceUnbelonging
02-11-2006

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Ben wrote the song, and the story it was based upon, and it had nothing to do with a relationship with Amy.

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basschickrocker
02-02-2006

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good song, i didnt like it at first but it kinda got through to me and i really like it now...to me its about death or leaving, but also about being stabbed in the back by someone you cared about. i dont really know why i think that, but the lyrics and her voice and stuff, she just sounds betrayed.

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LaDiablo
01-26-2006

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Lovelove--Thanks, I like my name ^_^. Right, so maybe it's because I frequent message boards such as zenhex, but spam irks the hell out of me. Yes, posting 4 comments in a row on one topic is called spamming, because nothing new is contributed and you're still talking. Please refrain from spamming and we'll all be happy, k? Merci.

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lovelove
01-17-2006

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oops i meant 4.lol did it again... =P

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lovelove
01-17-2006

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LaDiablo-scary name btw.lol. i thought i could delete my comments thats why i left that last one...lol i didnt know...annd why do you even care?lol.btw...how can you get spam from leaving three comments???lol.oh well...i still think this is a good song and i am not emo so that man on tv is stupid. bleh =P

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Heelo
01-14-2006

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Man on Tv, you make me sick, you can come onto a board where someone has lost their son and you heckle them! Then, when someone mentions it, you say it's all just fun! Fun? Well you know what, I don't know the woman who lost her son, I don't have children so I wouldn't know the feeling. I assume from this neither do you. I have however, lost someone incredibly close to me, it kills a part of you. Something you cherish and you never want to let go or get over it. I hope you never lose someone because no one deserves that and no one deserves to see their children die before they do.

And also, what makes her a whore? Explain please? As far as you know she was in love with someone, you know what that feels like? You've simply assumed she slept around and that's pretty immature, in fact, I can't imagine you bein more than a spotty greasy little kid. In which case, I hope your parents outlive you because even they would be devestated.

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guitarista_727
01-10-2006

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My Immortal: definitely one of the best. I can compare my relationshio to a friend with this. She's kinda like my therapist/person that always helps me out, hence the line, "When you cry I wipe away all your tears. When you scream I fight away all your fears."

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LaDiablo
01-08-2006

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lovelove-- please don't quadruple post. It works just the same to smush all your comments into one. And posting because you're bored is generally a bad idea. Spam, you know.

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lovelove
01-08-2006

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um.yah im bored so im puttun one more comment thing...hhaa
kbye

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