Can someone give me a good interpretation of this song? I once heard it described as a guy and a girl talking to each other. Btw, I have never, ever heard a line like "Hunting you, I can smell you, alive..." I love that...very animal like.
2006-12-05 15:06:49 · 4 answers · asked by jordan 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
I think Amy (or a persona of Amy's) is talking about herself and who she was when she wasn't happy with who she was.
When we don't like who we were, we have a tendency to let that haunt us. We're constantly reminded of who we were, and how much we don't want to go back to that time. The lyrics that indicate that this is someone from the past: "long lost words," "still can't find what keeps me here," etc.
It's like she keeps falling back into who she was, and she can't figure out why she keeps coming back to those thoughts and behaviors.
Clearly, she also has a mixed relationship with her "former self." There were personality traits of who she used to be that helped her and hindered her.
I think this interpretation is further supported by songs like Everybody's Fool (particularly the video) and Lithium.
2006-12-05 15:14:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's a great song...Amy Lee and the rest of the band have some awesomely great song choices...
The first verse seems like a girls point of view. She could be in a relationship with this guy and she doesn't know why she's still there with him. And she can hear everything he's ever said to her. The second voice may be from the hunter's point of view. He's hunting her, looking for her and he knows she's there. He can smell her. He can hear her, and he won't stop looking for her no matter what.
2006-12-05 23:46:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Based on a story written by Ben that served as an inspiration for Amy to write the lyrics.
A little girl around 8 or 9 in a little white Easter dress is walking down a neighborhood street bouncing a little red ball. As she approaches an obviously deserted large house with a sinister demeanor, her attention moves from the ball to the house. Not paying attention to her bouncing, the ball hits the curb and ricochets toward the house. As she chases the little red ball toward the house, the ball picks up unnatural momentum and bounces right into the huge gaping front door. The little girl pauses for a moment, looks up at the house, which now appears to be staring down at her, and cautiously enters the house in search of her little red ball. as she slowly walks into the atrium, she surveys the decaying mess that once was obviously a beautiful mansion. She becomes mesmerized by the exquisite detail of every inch of the banister winding up the seemingly endless staircase in front of her. Suddenly her thoughts are broken by a horrifying commotion. She whips around to run out the front door, but finds only a blank wall where the door once stood. Frightened, she runs down the first hallway she sees, trying desperately to find a way out, but with every turn the world behind her changes, bending to the will of the house, so that even finding a path back to the atrium where she began becomes impossible. Terrified, the little girl sinks into a corner, puts her head in her hands, and weeps.
10 years later....
The little girl wakes up in a panic, now a young woman. Dirty, scarred. She's now clothed in black pants, work boots, and a black wife beater. Her skin is pale and dirty. Sun has not graced her flesh in over a decade. She wakes to find a meal placed on a dirty silver tray before her, just enough to sustain life, just like every morning before. Placed there by a figure she can only see in passing, around a corner, walking through a door.... a figure that has become her only friend, and her only hate. Her entire existence has become nothing but to hunt and destroy this shadow that keeps her here. As she hunts him relentlessly day after day, she becomes lost in the dichotomy of her being. This thing that keeps her here, this person that repeatedly rapes her mind and watches her when she sleeps, has become her only friend. For is this person left, she would cease to exist. For she live only to kill him. But lives only FOR him. Every day the house changes around her, so that every day she wakes in a foreign land. The only constant... is him. She hears his heart beating, she smells him, she can only think of finding him, but he is also the only thing she knows of love.
2006-12-09 19:35:14 · answer #3 · answered by pinkpanthersgirl 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I love the song...to me it means that she's in love with the guy, but he never calls her when he's sober...sadly...too true for most....;(
2006-12-05 23:16:32 · answer #4 · answered by Hoot 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋