Evanescence: Lithium Meaning

Song Released: 2007

Lithium Lyrics

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...

1. anonymous

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   Jun 8th 2007 !⃝

   She just says "Just didn't drink enough to say you love me" because the song is about Sean (Seether) who had alcohol problems, but I'd agree it's about addiction to him. (If you're into Evan you know the song is about him) Maybe it'd help to find out the chemical characteristics ...

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2. anonymous

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   Jun 4th 2007 !⃝

   Lithium is yes, a drug but the whole interpretation is too narrow. It's generally about letting go. Releasing things which are ruining you and your life. Lithium can almost always makes you unhealthly dependentable of it, like alcohol, cutting, etc, and I, personally, believe "Lithium" is about independance.

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3. anonymous

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   May 17th 2007 !⃝

   Well, I agree with those ones who say it's about happiness.She says that she is so used to sorrow and when she starts to feel a great happiness after a long time without any hint of hapoines,she doesn't want to leave her sorrow behind.Because she thinks it makes her numb and blind and it doesn't let her think and decide healthily.She is almost afraid of being happy but she realizes that no one would want such a sad girl around and decides to change.She says she guesses she had to be happy one day (and in the end I guess I had to fall) and she is always sad and its time for change (always find my place among the ashes).Its related to Lithium, because just like that kind of happiness Amy is talking about (the kind which is fake and numb,almost sickening),Lithium keeps you happy and takes away your pain but makes you forget your old self and feel numb and empty either, because as you know, some patients are so used to pain that it is almost a part of them and if you take it away from them they don't feel like human anymore. So Lithium was the best metaphor they could ever find for such kind of hapiness. I think Amy Lee has written it very intelligently.
4. anonymous

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   Apr 18th 2007 !⃝

   Ok so her life has been bad for a while and she's accepted it but now someone comes along and to be with them she has to let go of the sadness and be happy...duh!
5. anonymous

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   Apr 14th 2007 !⃝

   Amy Lee does NOT use Lithium in a literal term! This is a quote from her explaining it: “ It's not literal, it's not literal about the drug for me, I've never taken lithium before. It's sort of a metaphor about numbness and happiness and sort of like, it's me looking at happiness in a negative way because I've always been, you know, kind of afraid to be happy. Like with the band and the art and everything else, it's always like I'm never letting myself break through into the happiness it seems like, because it's not cool or something. And describing happiness is lithium, it's like saying 'that's numbness, I won't be able to be an artist anymore if I'm happy', which is hilarious because that's just not true, I'm happy. So it's like this fight within the song of like 'do I do this and get out of here and get happy or do I wallow in it like I always do?' and it's cool because at the end of the song I say 'I'm going to let it go', like I am going to be happy.”
6. anonymous

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   Apr 12th 2007 !⃝

   She is obviously bipolar and on lithium. Lithium sometime makes you feel alone and maybe a little paranoid that is what the song is describing.

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7. anonymous

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   Apr 10th 2007 !⃝

   Well I find that in the song Lithium symbolizes happiness and it is about the choice between happiness and depression. I know it sounds kind of odd but it is hard to get over depression. The last words "I'm gonna let it go" refer to the fact that she is going to try to be happy and enjoy life.
8. anonymous

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   Mar 10th 2007 !⃝

   Bipolar (manic depression) drugs such as lithium often leave the patient feeling like a zomby .. a dead, cold, empty emotional state .. where one feels trapped in some otherworldy dimension .. neither sadness nor happiness, life nor death.
   
   The song describes this state - whether due to this drug, or life situations, such as a bad relationship.
   
   
   -jeremy099
9. anonymous

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   Mar 2nd 2007 !⃝

   this song is clearly about AMY LEE(lead singer of evanescence) amy is 1 of the ppl that suffers frm depression and writing this she describin about happiness and who she wnt to break free and be happy.
   
   " I can't break free until I let it go"
   " let me go"
   she also sayin she feels alone and unhappy. In the end she says "I am going to let go" letting go of unhappiness and be happy.

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10. anonymous

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    Feb 15th 2007 !⃝

    It's absolutely sure that this song is about letting herself out of the sadness(the music video can help you clear it), let the sad person drown, be forgotten(like the song weight of the world). She forgave herself for feeling this sad(and in the end I guess I had to fall). Anyone who deals real pain can' t just love it, I have depression and I try anything not to let me drown.Pain is just hard for her.But watching anywhere but home- backscence showed me that she can't be sad.What kind of drugs could she have taken without stun her?Could just she works us just for money? Whatever this song worths like the ones on fallen and is clearly the best on open door.i think she gave this tittle to show she haw found happiness.But generally the songs aren't good as they used to.Some of them of course

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11. Amy

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    Jan 17th 2007 !⃝

    I just wanna say that Ive taken lithium and it is NOT an antidepressant. It is a mood stabilizer prescribed to bipolar people to keep them from getting manic (abnormally up not depressed). If Amy Lee is literally referring to lithium, then she probably is talking about the emotional prison cell the drug leaves you locked in. When your on it, you become totally zombified.
12. anonymous

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    Jan 13th 2007 !⃝

    this is a song merely about letting go. go and ask amy yourself if you don't believe me. But if I add what I think as well it might make sense. When she was younger she used to be a total drama queen and pretend she was dead and stuff so really she is pretending to be depressed and she doesn't "wanna forget how it feels WITHOUT lithium" meaning she is using the antidepressants to help her pretend.
    
    "I can't hold onto me wonder whats wrong with me"
    "dont want to lock me up inside"
    she wants to let it all go
    "cant break free until I let it go let me go"
    she can't break free of pretending until she forgets personl things that made her do it.
    "Im gonna let it go" she has decided to let it all go.
    "darling I forgive you after all"
    someone was maybe pushing her emotionally saying she was faking?
    ""anything is better than to be alone and in the end I had to fall"
    in the end she had to give up
13. anonymous

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    Jan 13th 2007 !⃝

    this is a song merely about letting go. go and ask amy yourself if you don't believe me. But if I add what I think aswell it might make sense. When she was younger she used to be a total drama queen and pretend she was dead and stuff so really she is pretending to be depressed and she doesn't "wanna forget how it feels WITHOUT lithium" meaning she is using the antidepressants to help her pretend.
    
    "I can't hold onto me wonder whats wrong with me"
    "dont want to lock me up inside"
    she wants to let it all go
    "cant break free until I let it go let me go"
    she can't break free of pretending until she forgets personl things that made her do it.
    "Im gonna let it go" she has decided to let it all go.
14. Clair_Voyance

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    Jan 10th 2007 !⃝

    Mine is way different, and it is so because I draw upon my own experiences as a cutter to understand it. When I cut, I did so because I was so emotionally numb, it was a way to feel. I think she is on Lithium for a similar reason. In my veiw, she does not feel like the same person when she is on the drug, even though she knows it is best. Her lover starts avoiding her, and she grows angry with him. Desperate for a new beginning, she swallows her pride - and the Lithium pill. She becomes calmer and more reasonable, forgives her love, and...the song ends.
15. anonymous

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    Dec 27th 2006 !⃝

    completly agree with the lithium as a metaphor of happyness and sadness, or at least that's what Amy said in the interview and I mean, HELLOOO SHE WROTE IT!! (^_^)

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