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Playing Evanescence - Bring me to Life
Tue, 2008-02-19 01:25 - Kerry
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how can you see into my eyes like open doors
leading you down into my core
where I’ve become so numb without a soul my spirit sleeping somewhere cold
until you find it there and lead it back home
(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I can’t wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me)
call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
bid my blood to run
(I can’t wake up)
before I come undone
(Save me)
save me from the nothing I’ve become
now that I know what I’m without
you can't just leave me
breathe into me and make me real
bring me to life
(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I can’t wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me)
call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
bid my blood to run
(I can’t wake up)
before I come undone
(Save me)
save me from the nothing I’ve become
Bring me to life
(I've been living a lie, there's nothing inside)
Bring me to life
frozen inside without your touch without your love darling only you are the life among the dead
all this time I can't believe I couldn't see
kept in the dark but you were there in front of me
I’ve been sleeping a thousand years it seems
got to open my eyes to everything
without a thought without a voice without a soul
don't let me die here
there must be something more
bring me to life
(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I can’t wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me)
call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
bid my blood to run
(I can’t wake up)
before I come undone
(Save me)
save me from the nothing I’ve become
(Bring me to life)
I’ve been living a lie, there’s nothing inside
(Bring me to life)
Comments
Finding Familiarity
Every once in a while, I find a song that speaks to me, spiritually, and more often than not, the sound I like comes from a source that sparks debate among others. Tonight I learned how much discussion can be had about a band, simply by linking their personal religious beliefs to their work, as if that should determine whether music deserves a praising audience or group-following. [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2625] It always amuses me how people confuse religion with spirituality, and how divided people will become by their personal beliefs.
I wanted to know what inspired the song, "Bring Me to Life", because the song reminds me of "instant chemistry", and how it can be found between two people, with very little work or effort.
I'd like to believe love at first sight is real, but I think it's the spoken and unspoken voice of reason that attracts and traps people together. For better or worse, is it the eyes... the voice... the face... the combination... what is it that brings familiar comfort between two virtual strangers, and when does friendly conversation become intense and intimate, and life-altering?
When is sincerity real, and when is it a show, and how can faith in another person be trusted again?
Real
I like this song a lot too and completely agree with your point about religion vs. spiriality. Though I am not religious and don't believe in a soul, doesn't mean I can't be soulful. The latter is a feeling I can have, the former a religious explanation I don't care about. Some of my favorite songs are very much spiritually inspired and performed by people who call themselves religious. Still they touch me as some of the texts of religious books can touch me.
The instant chemistry you see in this song I can very much relate to. How can it be that out of all the millions of people around, there is a single person who has an immediate touch that goes so deep? I know it exists. I know it is real.
darkness
I think there are lots of ways a person can be deeply touched by others, and I think it happens all the time, in varying degrees. It would be scary to think only one person can "touch" the spark that inspires change in each of us. If you think about it, all friendships start because there was a spark - a connection- that clicked between those two people.
The scary thing is finding the one who stays long enough to click on all the connections. Maybe that's what true love is, finding the person who can get the full fuse-box of connections working without causing any complications or glitches that create danger, damage or shortages!
Illuminating perspective...
It's one thing to make (or find) a connection with another person, but it's a whole new ball of wax when it comes to KEEPING those connections alive and well. I guess that's why people have to keep "working" on their relationships, because it's so easy to lose or forget what made the contact/connection so successful in the first place.
What can make it all go dark again? Laziness and an assumption that once something works, it always will.