Evanescence: Lithium Meaning
Song Released: 2007
Lithium Lyrics
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...
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I think basically this song 'Lithium' is about not wanting to be calmed down of fears and depression by a anti-depression drug called lithium... 'Lithium, don't wanna lock me up inside. Lithium, don't wanna forget how it feels without. Lithium, I wanna stay inlove with my sorrow, oh, but god I wanna let it go.' I think it's just about not wanting to get addicted to the drug and not being able to smile without it.
Also, there is a hint of missing someone in the song, I think someone broke her heart, and she deosn't want to let it go and neither wants Lithium to help her let it go... She want's to stay in love and doesn't want to let go..
This is just MY opinion on the song, so I don't care what you've heard or what you know.. This is just the way I see it.. -
Basically, this song is all about wanting to be happy, but afraid to leave the comforts of sorrow.
In the first section of the song, Amy states that she wants to "stay in love with her sorrow" .... and then "ooooh, but god, I wanna let it go".
So.... She is afraid to take Lithium (an Anti-Depressent for Bi-Polar disorders/mood stabilizers) because she is so used to sorrow that she doesn't want to leave.
Hope that helped in some way. -
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Lithium is about not wanting to put up with fake happiness anymore (she sings about lithium because it also brings fake happiness)
in this song, lithium is also a metaphor for her ex boyfriends which she also pretended to be happy with
"Don't want to let it lay me down this time
Drown my will to fly" - means she won't put up with it, he wants to be happy for real
"Here in the darkness I know myself
Can't break free until I let it go
Let me go" is showing she knows herself better being unhappy and she can't be happy until she changes the situation and leaves what it causing such pain -
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Lithium is a Metaphor for happiness from a negative point of view
don’t wanna numb myself n not feel myself anymore
the choice between the comfort of sorrow, or the idea of happyness -
Lithium as in lithium carbonate, a common ingredient found in mood stabilizers. It's about when you get into a certain degree of depression, you don't seem to want out. When you have what you need to make you happy, it's not that easy to choose to simply "let it go." lithium is a choice whether or not to become a normal person again...Or to keep living life like how it is familiar to you.
I think the verses are about her personal life because she said she wrote the song for her, and not for anyone else. They're probably the things that triggered her depression. She's dropping you right into her life, and letting you see her side of the story, namely, trying to make you see that it is reasonable why she wants to remain depressed. -
In a recent interview, amy said that the song to her wasn't literal, but more of a metaphor about numbness, and happiness. Like looking at happiness in a negitive way, almost as if its "uncool" to be happy or something. Almost as if she's afraid of being happy.
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I just want to remark that `lithium´ could also not be referring to the drug; lithium means something like `land´ in latin. You know how much evanescence uses latin. ;-)
the chorus may mean she doesn't want to stay locked where she is. She has experienced how it's like to be without lithium (nor safe), and doesn't want to forget it.
Then she says she wants to let go of lithium, to feel the adrenaline of not being sure in one place once again. @_@
basically, it's all a metaphor to axplain she wants to fall in love again.
I think. -
Hmmm...Well like the person somewhere above said, lithium is found in anti-depressants (i'm pretty sure) and I think that it's about whoever she's with is depressed and for some reason had to go on anti-depressant pills, so he would be happy-which includes being happy that he's with her. Adn I don't know how to say this but...Like..When he's depressed, obviously he's very sad, and doesn't want to maybe be with her as much as he did when on the anti-d. So when she says
"don't want to forget how it feels without
lithium"
she didn't want to forget that with him on the a.D's she felt that he loved her but without them,he was...Just depressed...She wanted to feel loved...I guess...That's what I think anyway...If that made any sense. -
I think this song is more personal rather than about someone she loved. I believe that it contributes to the song but only in the sense that it is a contributing factor (or only factor) to her depression, which she is using lithium to cure. The litium helps her out of her depression- but at the same time locks up who she is, takes away her prblem(s), her sadness, which is...Who she is. It makes her happy, but takes away what has become her.
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Lithium is one of the best songs on the open door. I kind of agree with the relationship post listed above, but I don't think we can assume that the "person" is bipolar. Quite possibly, she wants to feel her pain because that is how she knows she is alive...For example, "here in the dark, I know myself" etc. I think on one level it is about a person in a relationship that is painful or that has ended (or is about to end) and what society would normally push her to do...Medicate herself so she won't have to deal with her pain. I think the song is saying that she wants her pain because it is a part of her. Well, that is the viewpoint of a 28 year old phd student who needs to do his work and not try to analyze amy lee's lyrics.
Peace. -
This song is clearly about loving someone and them not loving you back ('just didn't drink enough to say you love me'). Lithium is a drug which shows being addicted to someone, but even though its hurting you you don't want to let go, even though you know you have to. "darling, I forgive you after all, anything is better than to be alone" shows that although this person doesn't love her she doesn't feel anger towards him and that she would rather keep loving him and be in pain than be alone.
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I see this song somewhat describing a relationship occuring between from whoever the point of view is seen and one who has had emotional disorders that has caused problems with their relationship.
Lithium is found in medications for depression, bipolar disorder and other emotional disorders. So, you can see how one can feel like they're "locked inside" lithium because the person they're with might abuse her (verbally or physically) when he's not on the medication. -
Lithium is a medication for bipolar disorder, I think that makes sense in this song.
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