Just saw Evansescence tonight and...

[Puddles]

and I cried like a baby. Amy and the rest of the band were just as fantastic in person as they are recorded.


The Evansescence cd is very special to me. I bought it last Father's Day when I was away from my dad visiting in NY for a friend's wedding. We had plans to be together the following Saturday but that Friday he had a heart attack and as I drove the 2 1/2 hrs. to get to him in a torrential rainstorm the Evansescence cd played repeatedly, I didn't know if he was alive or dead because the call from my mother was incoherent. When I got to the hospital he was in a coma and on life support, he had died for about 7 minutes before they resuscitated him. This song kept running through my head as I moistened his dry blank staring eyes and held him in my arms...


"Bring Me to Life"

How can you see into my eyes like open doors?
Leading you down into my core
Where Ive become so numb

Without a soul
My spirit's sleeping somewhere cold
Until you find it there and lead it back home

-CHORUS-
[wake me up] Wake me up inside
[I cant 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 cant wake up] Before I come undone
[Save me] Save me from the nothing Ive become

Now that I know what Im without
You cant just leave me
Breathe into me and {make me real}
Bring me
To life

-CHORUS-
[wake me up] Wake me up inside
[I cant 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 cant wake up] Before I come undone
[Save me] Save me from the nothing Ive become

{Bring me to life}
[Ive been living a lie..Theres nothing inside]
{Bring me to life}

Frozen inside without your touch
Without your love, darling
Only you are the life among the dead

[All of this time, I cant believe I couldnt see
Kept in the dark, but you were there in front of me]

Ive been sleeping a thousand years it seems
Got to open my eyes to everything

[Without a thought, without a voice, without a soul]
{Dont let me die here}{There must be something more}
Bring me to life

-CHORUS-
[wake me up] Wake me up inside
[I cant 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 cant wake up] Before I come undone
[Save me] Save me from the nothing Ive become

Bring me to life
[Ive been living a lie.. Theres nothing inside]
Bring me to life



I talked to him for hours trying to spark something in his soul to bring him back to our world. I held him hoping my energy would be enough to wake him from his coma. My father held on for 3 days, never waking from his coma, and he passed away in my arms.

This Evanessance cd, with all of it's songs having a special meaning in regards to my father's death, will always be very emotional for me. I'm glad we got to go to the concert but damn it was hard to deal with. It rained some at the concert tonight too which really helped remind me of those last days with my dad again.

It's amazing how some music can move you so deeply.

[rvgfrth4g]

We saw them in concert last year and they were great! Sorry to hear about your father...

[blm]

The power of music is overwhelming. Twenty years of your life can pass by and not think about a certain moment in your past and then a song comes on and your mind is flooded with memories...I love it.

[Doom]

Damn that really got to me :(
Having to be there watching a loved one go has to be the hardest thing on earth to deal with

[bigpetefox]

That got me pretty deep, too..

I like the song My Immortal, I think of my grandmother alot when I hear it.. I've seen Evanescence in concert twice here at Avalon, everytime I heard them perform that song, I got teary-eyed even though I was into the song, not the thought behind it..

[bad14u]

First of all I want to say that I am very sorry to hear about your father Puddles! Having lost my own father two days before Christmas in '97 I can feel your pain!

To me music can be a time machine! I know that sounds funny but it's true! I can hear a song and all of a sudden I am wisked away to another time when I first heard the song, like at a party or a concert! When I think about where I was or what I was doing at that time I am flooded with emotions of joy and youth! Sometimes, depending on the song, I can be overcome with grief! If I hear a song, and I had been to that concert, I'm taken back to that day of the show and the friends I was with and the trip we made to see the show! It's amazing what music can do to a person! I guess the best thing about music is that it lets me know that I am one of the lucky ones that can hear it!

[lxorl]

Wow... strong story telling... very sorry.

[bad14u]

Don't want to steal your thread Puddles, but this is the song that gets to me...especially now that I have a son! It's an old song from '88 but it really makes me understand now!

The Living Years- Mike and The Mechanics

Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come beating on your door

I know that I'm a prisoner
To all my Father held so dear
I know that I'm a hostage
To all his hopes and fears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

Crumpled bits of paper
Filled with imperfect thought
Stilted conversations
I'm afraid that's all we've got

You say you just don't see it
He says it's perfect sense
You just can't get agreement
In this present tense
We all talk a different language
Talking in defence

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

So we open up a quarrel
Between the present and the past
We only sacrifice the future
It's the bitterness that lasts

So Don't yield to the fortunes
You sometimes see as fate
It may have a new perspective
On a different day
And if you don't give up, and don't give in
You may just be OK.

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

I wasn't there that morning
When my Father passed away
I didn't get to tell him
All the things I had to say

I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo
In my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

[Puddles]

Originally posted by bad14u
To me music can be a time machine!

So true. Today we were listening to ring tones to d/l for the cell phone and there was one song we listened to and it brought Stromba and I back to when we first met and fell in love.

[pudgy]

they have the greatest lyrics.

[Luftdude]

Man, every time I hear Alan Jackson's Chattahochee I think about the time I went to the rodeo 11 or 12 years ago. I'll never forget it because that night I got my jacket caught in one of the seats and a cowboy was like why don't stay for the rest of the concert son? And this was with my dad. Well, jump ahead 5 or 6 years, my dad collapses because of an aneurysm in his brain. Luckily he survived but I always think how close I was to losing him when I hear that song.

LD

[TheStromba]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by bad14u
[B]Don't want to steal your thread Puddles, but this is the song that gets to me...especially now that I have a son! It's an old song from '88 but it really makes me understand now!

The Living Years- Mike and The Mechanics


This song will almost always make me cry.

Sometimes I have to turn it off.

[bad14u]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by TheStromba
[B]

Originally posted by bad14u
This song will almost always make me cry.

Sometimes I have to turn it off.

:agree: I know exactly how you feel Bro!

[bad14u]

Originally posted by Puddles
So true. Today we were listening to ring tones to d/l for the cell phone and there was one song we listened to and it brought Stromba and I back to when we first met and fell in love.

Puddles...depending on the type of phone you have you can download songs from your computer for a ringtone instead of the shitty ones the cell provider gives you! I have a LG5450 and with the right cord I can download the songs right from my computer!

[Severedties]

I have seen them in concert and they are amazing. Her voice is stunning, both on the album and live. Not many people can say that.