MY IMMORTAL (2003) “MY REVIEW”
My Immortal (2003)
Written By Ben Moody, Amy Lee, and David Hodges Performed By Evanescence
Album: Fallen
“My Immortal” is a soft rock song that tells the story of love gone wrong. Where the love had seemed real for both people in the beginning, but now this love affair should end without any question. It is already gone, but those involved will not let it crawl away and die; let it be buried to rest in their memories, even though one lover is shouldering all the pain. Hemorrhaging in their silence, submitting to its terrible burden and the other lover is consuming all the love like a famished vampire, sucking the relationship to death and tainting it with their poisonous behavior. It still lives, resurrected by both lovers and their obsession with each other and this twisted love, which is decomposing and disintegrating from within. One person has finally awaken to the fact that it has always been a one sided romance, where they have given all, emotionally and physically, and the other person has given nothing, only pain and grief. What should have been a relationship of two equals has always been controlled by one, and carried by the other. It is lust not love, a masochistic asylum built for two. One person is awakening to the fact that they are alone in this love, and have always been alone, that their lover is cold and unfeeling. This does not automatically mean this person is going to finally put this love to sleep and let themselves free from its unearthly grip and mind control. They keep coming back for more and more, like a heroin addict getting sicker and sicker. Finding only grief and loneliness, which is the only thing offered by this relationship of unequals. “But though you’re still with me I’ve been alone all along” (My Immortal 2003 ). This realization may just be too late for this lonely lover.
“My Immortal” is a dark love song, full of obsession and an almost madness. It vision seems to speak of an ancient and destructive love, a reincarnation gone wrong. This is a good theme song for a vampire or reincarnation movie. Where love is both wanted to the point of self-destruction and not wanted because of self-realization. The beautiful piano playing seems to make it even sadder and darker, funeral like, playing a tune of both longing and withdraw. The lyrics have a deeper, more resonating style, putting a Gothic tragedy in picture. Of love lost but never ending, where deep pain is the only emotion that can be expressed by either lover; the one who is burdened by the relationship and the one who is the enslaver, with almost magical powers. It is one of my favorite songs.
