Song lyrics: What do they stand for?

[Jennpurr]

I thought of this idea for a thread and I hope it's okay.



There are so many great songs out there and 10 of us could listen to the same song, yet walk away with a different perception of what it's about. That's what this thread is for.



I've been obsessing over my Evanescence cd for weeks/going on a couple of months now. There are so many great songs on that cd. I have to admit, my two most favorite songs are, "My Immortal," and, "Hello."



Now, my question is this: What is the meaning behind those two songs? What do the lyrics represent?



I've been racking my brain trying to come up with something, but I can't. I figure, "My Immortal," is about someone who has died and the person they have left behind and how that person can't move on? Is that right? I hope someone can give me a hand with this.



Feel free to pitch in and ask about any song here. There's one singer I have never had to try and figure out and that's Melissa Etheridge. I wish all singers lyrics were as easy to figure out as hers.



Jen

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Edited by: Jennpurr at: 1/19/04 9:27 pm

[wiccanwiggle]

I Looove the Evanescence album! That's what i figured My Immortal was about. It's like they're gone...but they're not. But instead of all the little reminders acting as comforters they're eating her up alive and she can't escape them. And the pain is killing her. And if they're really gone for good and she has to suffer the pain of losing them then she shouldn't have to be constantly reminded of that pain everywhere she goes. Now comes the harder lyrics...Hello. Which i can't really seem to grasp the hold of, tho i love the song! Please beware that this is only my interpretation of it and let's just say that i'm not the smartest cookie in the jar! I think that something has just happened...an accident of some sort and the girl has stopped breathing. The person singing the song can't take in the shock of what is happening and is in some sort of mind zone-out. And she thinks that if she stays there she'll be ok, she can just smile and everything will be alright again. She thinks back to school days, probably happier days. And she doesn't want to leave this place and that's why she says 'don't try to fix me i'm not broken'. Then at the end she is pulled out of this dream like state and realises that she's not dreaming and reality hits! Or something along those lines. Like i said, i am probably talking complete bull but sure we all need some way to pass the time in work don't we!!



Laura

"I am the person I was looking for..." Melanie Chisholm

[tkheaven]

hideeeeho!!!

as a fellow Evanescence fan I'd have to say for My Immortal, the one person she knew ('she' being the one in pain), she watched, helped, loved, cherised, looked up to perhaps, adored in any sense is feeling the loss or absence and is being haunted by their memories. This person is no longer there, death or otherwise. As good as it was having that presence in your life as they were (as a child not wanting to lose that happiness and fearing the worst) it becomes tiring/frustrating and simply wants to move on without this dead-end feeling. This being someone she absolutely cared about and possibly visa versa. I can kind of relate to this song, not on the part of death although I've been told (by the same) how incredible the lyrics were and feelings could only be described as in the song if something were to happen to me. . o ( ironic... )

For Hello I agree with wiccanwiggle, she's in shock with the fact that she's lost someone she knew. Part of her is so shocked she's zoned (I'm not broken) but while she is she's also trying to get herself to realize that it's no dream, trying to break from that state of shock (in which she's also hoping she can lie and convince herself that all is ok) asking if 'no on told [her] she's not breathing' prepping herself for reality until it finally does hit her.



So much can come from so little, and so little from so much...I hope that made sense...I'm rambling aren't I...

Tk's new and improved "GrrArgg"...Crazy? Crazy?? I do not talk to myself...it's called thinking aloud...

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[AmbeRocks]

hey Jenn, been to the Evanescence concert last december, and i have been obssesed with a lot of their song since the beginning of summer. anyway, as english is not my native language, i often listen to song, and though i understand every word, i don't really stop myself to what it all means. But if it can reassure you, the day after the show, Amy was at MuchMusic(dec14th) doing an interview, and well, she said that it's perfectly normal that people will have different understanding of the meaning, and that's what is intended in a certain way. anyway, good luck



jen

There is such a variety of well-invented things that the earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing - Nietzsche

[WiccansIllusion]

Uhm...loosing the person dearest to you, whether it was a best friend, lover..or anythng really.

I am walking out in the rain I am listening to the low moan of the dial tone again and I am getting no where with you and I won't let it go and I won't get through, with both hands...ani d

Edited by: Warduke at: 1/21/04 9:32 am

[AmbersSecretAdmirer]

Okay, how about these lyrics ( the whole song is here. You won't believe what this song is about, but your guesses would be fun to see).



HOW FAR JERUSALEM - MAGNUM





They are the victims of the night

Ride against the wind - born to lose the fight

They fill the doorways, they come far

Holding what they bring - details on a card

And on a rainy night like this

Someone shuts the door - goodbye on their lips



They are the victims of the night

Ride against the wind - born to lose the fight

They fill the doorways, they come far

Holding what they bring - details on a card

And on a rainy night like this

Someone shuts the door - goodbye on their lips



There is no charity from where they come

There's nothing left to be

In stark reality thy will be done

For you, for them, for me



How far Jerusalem - before the heart breaks down

No kings among them - cold feet in London town

How far Jerusalem - oh, broken hearted clown

We stand among them - cold feet in London town, oh!



(Guitar Solo)



They are in search of liberty's trail

Equal in their eyes - faces drawn and pale

So many hearts have gone before

Probably ignored - crashing to the floor

They are the victims of the night

Ride against the wind - born to lose the fight



There is no charity from where they come

There's nothing left to be

In stark reality thy will be done

For you, for them, for me



Ooh, how far Jerusalem - before the heart breaks down

No kings among them - cold feet in London town

How far Jerusalem - oh, broken hearted clown

We stand among them - cold feet in London town



How far Jerusalem - before the heart breaks down

No kings among them - cold feet in London town

How far Jerusalem - oh, broken hearted clown

We stand among them - cold feet in London town, oh!



How far Jerusalem





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[Imperfectly Me]

One song I've never been able to decipher is Cornflake Girl by Tori Amos. For years I've tried to figure that one out.

Who were you then? And who are you now? That you think you can figure it all out, the mathematics of regret. It takes two beers to remember now, and five more to forget. That I love you so..what. Yeah I love you so..what.

[WiccansIllusion]

Aimee, this is Tori's reasoning behind Cornflake Girl.





the info is from hereinmyhead.com









"I read the Alice Walker book, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and there's umm, in that book, the mothers take the daughters to the butchers to have their, let's say their genitalia removed. And even though it's a patriarchal culture that she's talking about, and that this custom was put into practice a long, long time ago by the patriarchy, it's the mothers that take their daughters. And, what I was singing about was, it's funny how from generation to generation women really betray each other in the ladies' room. There is a whole secret society that happens, and a lot of times a mother will say 'I'm doing this for your good' whether it was binding the feet in the Eastern cultures or whether it's marrying your daughter to this gangrene, smelly-breathed, old, decrepit, rotting scumbag that's 80 years old with dough. 'You know, this is really the best for you,' when the truth is, it's the best for everybody else. And, that's an extreme of women's relationships brought to just like, your girlfriend that you're hanging out with, but betrayal is betrayal, and I was thrown in to many situations as I was reading that book where girls, my girls, we were just dissin' each other. The things that we were doing, umm, it's like I would have never imagined that we could be so unsupportive of each other, and it was just happening while I was reading this book, and Cornflake Girl is the betrayal really of girls."

-- Tori; 99X Radio Interview, 08/05/94

..this song is my anthem and it makes up my ideals and who I am... cause we pay for the stupid things we've done..if we ever use common sense it comes pretty cheap...Tegan and Sarah