Wut is the message in this evanescence song?

Imaginery



I linger in the doorway

Of alarm clocks screaming

Monsters calling my name

Let me stay where the wind will whisper to me

Where the raindrops as they're falling tell a story



In my field of paper flowers

And candy clouds of lullaby

I lie inside myself for hours

And watch my purple skies fly over me



Don't say im 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 skies fly over me





Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming

Cannot cease for the fear of silent nights

Oh how i long for the deep sleep dreaming

The goddess of imaginery light



In my field of paper flowers

And candy clouds of lullaby

I lie inside myself for hours

And watch my purple skies fly over me

Wut is the message in this evanescence song?
Certainly it could be interpreted as an ode to escapism via the imagination, whether it be daydreams, or a "safe haven" in her mind, or literally sleep dreams. But that's not the whole picture.



I think there's enough evidence to push it one step further, and to say that the song is specifically a yearning for a return to the naivety (and hence carefree nature) of childhood.



Firstly there are the explicit references to objects with childhood connotations: "monsters", "paper flowers", "candy", and "lullaby". These are juxtaposed with the "alarm clock" as a symbol of adulthood responsibility, and she even subtly compares the alarm clock to an adult version of a monster.



Secondly, I see a double meaning in "Where the raindrops as they're falling tell a story." When Amy Lee (the singer) was in high school, she wrote a choir piece called "Listen to the Rain", a wonderfully poetic lyric in its own right, in which falling rain literally tells a story about the brevity and urgency of life. So I see this allusion to her teenage years as a reference to (and a longing for) Amy's own childhood.
Reply:It's like a melancholv strain.
Reply:Most would call that "rampant chaos"... I believe she would call it...her "safe place" so basically it is an imaginary place she can go to in her mind to get away from reality. It is a good thing... the only time it is a bad this is if you go to that place and stay there for really long periods of time.. Then you'd be deemed insane



This song isn't meant for you to understand.. it is for her
Reply:ok the song is about amy's life being a nightmare and her bedroom being her refuge....she's describing her bedroom as a child
Reply:it's a song about a nightmare in real life.
Reply:my interpretation is it is about a person who feels more comfortable in the imaginary world of her mind and dreams than in the real world and would like to stay there and not have to deal with reality