Evanescence: Swimming Home Meaning

Song Released: 2011

Swimming Home Lyrics

Way down
I've been way down
Underneath this skin
Waiting to hear my name again

I'm sorry
Nothing can hold me
I adore you still
If I hear them calling
And nothing can hold me

Way down
(Do you really want me?)
All the way down
(Do...

1. anonymous

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   Nov 19th 2011 !⃝

   In my opinion this is one of the most beautiful songs Amy has ever composed.
   
   It's about the feeling of becoming free when leaving. It could be because of death, because of something people you love stopped you from doing or even Amy's comeback.
   
   The person at the beginning is 'way down' waiting to be free. This part makes me think about parents who stop their children from following their dreams. Or someone trying to make someone live with the help of machines.
   
   This songs is very delicate. The person is saying "I'm not leaving you because I don't love you, but I need to follow my heart. Forgive me, but I'll not change my mind. Please, understand, I can't stop my destiny, let me go and don't stop loving me".
   
   As for Amy, coming back, like somebody said before, it could be an excuse to her husband because she can't be there, but music is inside her, and that's something she cannot stop.
2. anonymous

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   Nov 19th 2011 !⃝

   I know this probably isn't what she meant but my idea is: it's about a mermaid who's going back to her home with all of the people she loves, after living in the ocean for so long.
   "Way down, I've been way down"
   Down under the ocean.
   "Under the skin
   waiting to hear my name again"
   She wouldn't have heard her name if she had been under water for a while.
   "I'm sory
   Nothing can hold me"
   She's saying that nothing can keep her away from the ocean, but she's sorry because she had to leave the people that love her.
   "I adore you still"
   She's saying that even though she went away for a while, she still loves the people from her home.
   "but I hear them calling"
   'them' being the other mermaids.
   "And nothing can hold me"
3. anonymous

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   Nov 11th 2011 !⃝

   I think both answers are equaliy valid. The dying one, asking for forgiveness about leaving (she says in an interview this is the opposite point of view of "Never go back") and the singer/artist that can not hold on and is carried away by her need to express.
   
   I think that the beatifulness of the lyrics is that we can apply them to any situation, where one is being carried away to her roots, and says sorry because it does not mean she/he does not love the one that she/he is leaving.
   
   The music is amazing here.
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   Nov 4th 2011 !⃝

   I think Amy talks about her relationship with her husband: as we know, she's been a lot of time (5 years) with him after The Open Door, she hasn't made music with her band. But after 5 years she's returned with the band, and this song is probably about the fact that Amy, while she was recording the new album, did't pay attention to her husband, and she felt it was her fault, in this song she asks her husband "excuse me for this".
5. anonymous

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   Oct 13th 2011 !⃝

   I believe this song is about leaving someone you love because you have died but just because you are gone, you are sorry, and you hope that they will forgive you for leaving them alone..

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