Evanescence

When you cried I’d wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I’d fight away all of your fears
And I’ve held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me

Save me from the nothing I've become.
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.

You hold the answers deep within your own mind.
Consciously, you've forgotten it.
That's the way the human mind works.
Whenever something is too unpleasant, to shameful for us
to entertain, we reject it.
We erase it from our memories.
But the answer is always there.

You're too important for anyone.
You play the role of all you want to be.
But I — I know who you really are:
You're the one who cries when you're alone.

I still remember the world
From the eyes of a child,
Slowly those feelings
Were clouded by what I know now...
Where has my heart gone?
An uneven trade for the real world...
Oh I, I want to go back to
Believing in everything and knowing nothing at all.

I'm so sick of speaking words that no one understands.
Is it clear enough that you can't live your whole life all alone?
I can hear you in a whisper but you can't even hear me screaming.

Don't say I'm out of touch
With this rampant chaos — your reality
I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge
The nightmare i built my own world to escape

In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me

Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken...

Spoken fears can come true.

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

And though you're still with me
I’ve been alone all along

Hello, I'm the lie, living for you so you can hide...

Please, please forgive me,
But I won't be home again.
Maybe someday you'll look up,
And, barely conscious, you'll say to no one:
Isn't something missing?
You won't cry for my absence, I know -
You forgot me long ago.
Am I that unimportant...?
Am I so insignificant...?
Isn't something missing?
Isn't someone missing me?