Everlasting Evanescence, A Million Little Pieces, Drug Use
“Lithium, don’t want to lock me up inside
Lithium, don’t want to forget how it feels without
Lithium, I want to stay in love with my sorrow
Oh, but God, I want to let it go
Come to bed, don’t make me sleep alone
Couldn’t hide the emptiness you let it show
Never wanted it to be so cold
Just didn’t drink enough to say you love me
I can’t hold on to me
Wonder what’s wrong with me
Lithium, don’t want to lock me up inside
Lithium, don’t want to forget how it feels without
Lithium, I want to stay in love with my sorrow
Oh, don’t want to let it lay me down this time
Drown my will to fly
Here in the darkness I know myself
Can’t break free until I let it go
Let me go
Darling, I forgive you after all
Anything is better than to be alone
And in the end I guess I had to fall
Always find my place among the ashes
I can’t hold on to me
Wonder what’s wrong with me
Lithium, don’t want to lock me up inside
Lithium, don’t want to forget how it feels without
Lithium, I want to stay in love with you
Oh, I’m gonna let it go”
-Lithium, Evanescence
As a writer, I love to write…0_0 Fantastic sentence. I specifically like poetry THAT IS NOT EMO (as some of my peers would say). My poems are just a little deeper than what they’re used to.
Evanescence is at the height of emotional poweress, weilding moving lyrics and dualing them with soul-draining instumentals. I just love that band. Amy Lee is number three on my list of people that I want to meet (number one is Rachael *waves* and number two is Joel McHale).
Amy Lee’s lyrics have stuck with me for a long time. Right now (probably because I just listened to it and I’m talking about Evanescence), the song Hello is playing in my mind. I mean,
“If I smile and don’t believe
Soon I know I’ll wake from this dream
Don’t try to fix me
I’m not broken
Hello
I am the light
Living for you, so you can hide
Don’t Cry
Suddenly, I know I’m not sleeping
Hello
I’m still here
All that’s left of yesterday”.
Beautiful…just beautiful. The soothing song of senses. I just love ’em. I mean, I’m even including the song Everyone’s Fool in a project that has nothing to do with Evanescence…well, it fits anyways.
Ever read the book A Million Little Pieces? The book by James Frey? The dude who went on Oprah, and she plugged his book on her show, and he received the fabled “Oprah Praise”, and then thesmokinggun.com uncovered his lies…and then he went back on Oprah and gloated? The dude who claimed he went to rehab a total druggie, didn’t listen to anything his therapists said, broke the rules, fell in love with a former hooker (then claimed she killed herself in a half-way house later, and thesmokinggun.com proved she was made up), and then he got all better magically and has never ever relasped? That guy?
I read his book. My library filed it under fiction (appaluse). Entertaining. And graphic…but entertaining. Too bad he’s full of shit.
I’m doing a book report on that book…and I’ve found a way to actually do that book, sans the graphic nature. So how does Evanescence tie in?
Simply. The book was a big fat lie. Everybody’s Fool is about being a big fat lie. Hmmm…I dunno.
I’m covering the box with the lyrics to songs about lies. Evanescence is included. ^_^
Anyways…back to that book. What was that guy trying to do? Sure, we hear these stories of people struggling with drug use and booze, hitting on the crack and adopting bad habits and trashing 7-11’s and flipping a plate of rice at your mom (any one catch the allusion?). Well? What do some do? They have a magic intervention, decide they need to change their lives, turn their lives all the way around, then write a book making themselves look like an inspiration story. Did Mr. Frey try to profit off of the people who hear of him and go, “Awwww! What a hero.”?
Those people aren’t heros. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great they turned their lives around and got back on the right track. They saved themselves from rock bottom. Great job. And yes, maybe they do inspire other drug users to shape up their lives. But they’re not heroes. If they were heros, they would have made the right choices all the way through life. They would have had the inner strength to be themselves and not let peer pressure sway them to drugs in the first place. They may inspire, but they aren’t heroes.
And yes, no matter what people say, drug users only start because of peer pressure. They don’t just sit there and decide, “Well, it’s Friday, Imma start smoking weed.” No. They hear of some bullshit false-glorified aspects of drugs from peers who hit the bong. They want to try it, get high, and then forget that everytime they take a puff, they’re commiting a slow but sure self-inflicted suicide.
And even if they do randomly decide to do drugs, they have to hear of it from somewhere. They don’t just wake up in the morning and go, “Hmm…perhaps today I’ll start doing something illegal and deadly because I feel like it…perhaps some sort of health hazard that you burn.”
Listen to the rents. Even you peeps. Don’t do drugs. Why?
That’s why. And even worst?
(You had to expect it.) Thank y’all.
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