"Bring Me To Life" by Evanescence (feat. Paul McCoy)
Listening Type 3
To sing this song to myself means I have a rich inner world and resources that I am out of touch with, a soul full of life or an authentic self with clear vision. So it is both a sad and hopeful prayer to myself. The lyrics are in colur and my comments are in black.For many listening to the music will do it. For others, these sign posts will be of use. Here is a link to You-tube with the song and the lyrics. which will open in another wondow. I found the actual music video which can be found on you-tube as well, I found it a distraction.
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
Singing this to my spirit is in the form of a desperate prayer to my self. The anger and passion are part of the need implicit in the prayer.
(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
More desperate prayer with really dark places where I have come from.
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
This goes further to state that I am beginning to see light and life and to please not leave me here but really help me fully 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
I love this chorus with its counter type singing, the name of which I forget. Many times I have felt myself as being nothing. I have also felt the possibilities that my blood could unfreeze and begin to run again. With this listening I am taken back to my raw passion for life which I have had at some very dark times.
frozen inside without your touch without your love darling
only you are the life among the dead
Powerful lyrics that are more than should be sung to one human being
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
Both a call to life and a self call to continue to wake up. Even the fact of calling out to myself is a forward movement.
(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)
It is perhaps a good principle to ask one's self to bring one to life.
Listening Type 4
This type of listening can provoke powerful feelings so be aware. This is the listening where you are listening to your sould singing to you. With this song your soul is letting you know, in no uncertain terms, that it is in a desperate condition and in this condition your soul needs you. This is a turning of the tables. To listen properly in this manner you must be prepared to accept the song is being sung to you on an "as if" basis. To listen as if it were so and then see what emerges. When you let yourself do this you will see all sorts of surprises that you might not have imagined. Som of my annotations may assist.
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
This song is saying that my spirit feels I can see myself and that I can go to my own core and that my spirit is numb and needs me. my spirit is waiting for me to lead it back home. Huh! Usually the story is me I am waiting to someone to lead me to my spirit.
(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
That my spirit is so desperate is a shock to my being. But also it fits. That my spirit could be lost in the dark and require me sounds like a sacred task and one I should not avoid.
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
Now my spirit is begging me to bring him to life as he has had taste of life through my contact with him.
(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
My sould is praying to me. My sould value me. Again this is a turning of the tables where I enjopy feeling small and powerless. Here it is clear that my sould needs me.
frozen inside without your touch without your love darling
only you are the life among the dead
My soul languishes is numbness, pain and isolation becasue I fail to take up my true nature as a lover of self. Whao....almost too much!
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
Here my soul or my true self or my authentic self or my inner me, is reflecting that he has been asleep for a long time. And at the saem time he is aware that I was there before him. This measn, amongst other things, that I have been ignoring myself. A legitimate call and one I can get away with as long as my heart does not get puchy and demand I live up to my real potential.
(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)
My self wants me to bring him home. My heart is calling out to me. I thought I knew what heart was but here is my heart calling me. I will listen.