Bring Me to Life
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Bring Me to Life
[Lyrics to ‘Bring Me to Life’ by Evanescence; listen to the song here.]
It’s been two years since the dreams started.
how… can you see into my eyes, like open doors
It’s… been so long since you /really/ saw her. You can’t remember the color of her eyes properly. Or her hair.
leading you down into my core
where I've become so numb?
No one remembers her name. No one knows who you’re talking about.
without a soul
If you don’t make them remember, you know you’re going to go crazy.
my spirit’s sleeping somewhere cold
You have to make them understand how you feel about her.
until you find it there and lead it
back
You /have/ to.
home
(wake me up) wake me up inside (i can't wake up) wake me up inside
You can’t just blame it all on everyone else. You… forgot her, too.
(save me) call my name and save me from the dark
Maybe just a little while, yes. But you didn’t fight hard enough to keep her, you tell yourself.
(wake me up) bid my blood to run (i can't wake up) before I come undone
And you know it’s silly and stupid, and it’s not your fault. It’s not /anyone’s/ fault.
(save me) save me from the Nothing I've become
The guilt rips your heart to pieces anyway.
now that I know what I'm without, you can't just leave me
So you’re going to do what you can
breathe into me and make me real
with the words, the pictures, the pixels, the music,
bring me to life
until she comes back
frozen inside without your touch, without your love, darling
and everyone remembers her name again
only you are the life among the dead
and she forgives you.
all this time I can't believe I couldn't see
kept in the dark, but you were there in front of me
You go deeper every day. A thousand pages, a thousand screens.
I've been sleeping a thousand years it seems
got to open my eyes to everything
You have to find it inside you, somewhere, pull it out so everyone can see and feel what you see when you see her, what you feel when you think of her, but
without a thought, without a voice, without a soul
you try and try and search everywhere you can and they smile and nod at your funny little work but they don’t /feel it/
don't let me die here
and you feel her slipping further away and you want to scream as you thrust your hand into the paper the monitor the keyboard and cry because why, why, why, can’t there be room in this sad little world for
there must be something more!!
just
bring
/one/
me
/perfect/
to
THING-
life
and in that moment your fingertips brush hers.
(wake me up) wake me up inside (i can't wake up) wake me up inside
Desperate, you grasp her paw. You don’t know if it’s your hand bringing her to freedom
(wake me up) bid my blood to run (i can't wake up) before I come undone
or if she’s saving you, as with every ounce of your being you PULL her forth, conjuring her with the words, the pictures, the pixels, the music,
(save me) call my name and save me from the dark
where maybe, /maybe/ this time everyone can see her, and you sob helplessly as she falls into your arms
bring me to life
because Gadget is alive.