MY IMMORTAL

Never Give Up

The Evanescence are a rock band from the United States, formed in Little Rock in 1995. The band takes its name from the word "evanescence", the state or act of vanishing.
Their music is characterized by a fusion of alternative metal elements, gothic metal (especially at the beginning).
The band was founded by vocalist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody in 1995. According to various sources not always congruent, the two met in a young camp in Arkansas, where Moody listened to Lee playing the piano and singing I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Will not Do That) by Meat Loaf; later he would say: "I thought I was in paradise. Almost I was dry. In that tiny young camp there was one of the most powerful and beautiful voices I'd ever heard.

LYRICS

I'm so tired of being here 

Suppressed by all my childish fears 

And if you have to leave 

I wish that you would just leave 

'Cause your presence still lingers here

And it won't leave me alone 

These wounds won't seem to heal 

This pain is just too real 

There's just too much that 

time cannot erase 

When you cried I'd wipe away 

all of your tears 

When you'd scream I'd fight away 

all of your fears 

I held your hand through 

all of these years 

But you still have 

All of me 

You used to captivate me 

By your resonating light 

Now I'm bound by the life 

you left behind 

Your face it haunts 

My once pleasant dreams 

Your voice it chased away 

All the sanity in me 

These wounds won't seem to heal 

This pain is just too real 

There's just too much that 

time cannot erase 

When you cried I'd wipe away 

all of your tears 

When you'd scream I'd fight away 

all of your fears 

I held your hand through 

all of these years 

But you still have 

All of me 

I've tried so hard to tell myself 

that you're gone 

But though you're still with me 

I've been alone all along 

When you cried I'd wipe away 

all of your tears 

When you'd scream I'd fight away 

all of your fears 

I held your hand through 

all of these years 

But you still have 

All of me, me, me

All together, we’ve chosen this song, in memory of our dear friend Angelo who, after a fatal accident, lost his life.

Angelo was more of a classmate or a friend. Angelo was a part of us and from one day to another everyone lost him.
As the song says, it is a pain that none of us can forget because it is such a strong pain that even time can’t erase, it’s “a spirit staying with you after its death and haunting you until you actually wish that the spirit were gone because it won't leave you alone”.

GLOSSARY
Suppress: to put an end to the activities of a person to keep in or repress (a feeling, smile, groan, etc.)
Wound: an injury or hurt (also to emotions)
Heal: to repair or take care of
Tear: drop of water coming from your eyes when you’re sad, wounded, ecc…
Fear: you have fear when you’re in an impending danger
Guitarist: a performer on the guitar
Classmate: a member of the same class at a school or college
Fusion: the act or process of fusing or the state of being fused