Tonight was the second night in the series I’m facilatating for the Louisiana Endowments for the Arts and the Winnsboro, Louisiana library. The book we reviewed and discussed was The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War. The discussion was lively and interesting. (These adults pay so much better attention than my high school students, and they’ve actually read the book!) The library fed us a great meal and we had a bigger crowd than even last week, which was a record crowd. After my presentation, I had a brief visit with my friend and international fighting champion, Bob Allan, who has a Karate studio in Winnsboro.
Driving home, I was in one of the sad and introspective moods writers can get into, and what do I do? I make it worse by listening to an Evanescence song–over and over. I’m a writer, so I’ve a right to be sad once in a while, even though I know I don’t have a reason to. I’ve had some email requests to post some more of their lyrics. So, here are some. These lyrics came from http://endor.org/evanescence/lyrics.asp?Submit=View+Lyrics&AlbumID=4&SongID=31, the unofficial site of Evanescence.
My Immortal
i’m so tired of being here
suppressed by all of my childish fears
and if you have to leave
i wish that you would just leave
because 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
and i’ve held your hand through all of these years
but you still have all of me
you used to captivate me
by your resonating light
but 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
and i’ve 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
and though you’re still with me
i’ve been alone all along