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 emptiness you let it show
Never wanted it to be so cold
Just didn't drink enough to say you love me
I can't hold on to me
Wonder what's wrong with me
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, don't want to let it lay me down this time
Drown my will to fly
Here in the darkness I know myself
Can't break free until I let it go
Let me go
Darling, I forgive you after all
Anything is better than to be alone
And in the end I guess I had to fall
Always find my place among the ashes
I can't hold on to me
Wonder what's wrong with me
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 you
Oh, I'm gonna let it go
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vocal My fav song of The Open Door...the lyric is soooooo deep, the pain, the loneliness and the feelings of this song are amazing...breathtaking.
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vocal GREAT SONG!! i think this is one of the very best of Evanescence. but hes makes me remind in My Immortal, but nevermind P=
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vocal AMAZING song... probably my favourite off the album. Everything about it is just mezmerizing, can't explain it... just makes you go "wow"
Quote from Cirafly24 on evboard.com, which helped me to understand the song better:
"For those who don't understand what lithium is, or what it has to do with anything:
Lithium is a psychiatric drug used as a mood stabilizer...often prescribed to people with bipolar disorder and/or mood swings, along with other mood disorders.
I took lithium for several years, and I can relate to this song so much that it's crazy. Lithium took my sadness away...but then I didn't know who I was anymore. I'd clung to my sorrow for so long that I felt more like myself with it than without it. I almost wanted to hold on to it just because it was familiar. But in order to live and be free, I had to let it go.
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vocal Lithium is used to treat bipolar disorder or manic depression. It saves people's lives. It has nothing to do with helping you "stay in love with your sorrow" or any other melodramatic cliche. It's not for everybody, but then no medication is. This ridiculous idea that mental health treatment is somehow the enemy of the soul is perpetuated all too often by weepy, moronic songs like this one.
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vocal hey sup ppl the song is really good and not alot of ppl would use the words like she does but i didnt get the videoclip whats the story of it ,anyone ??
The video for "Lithium" is about sorrow and happiness working together. In the video, you see an Amy dressed in white (Representing happiness or pursuit of) and an Amy, under the water, dressed in black (Representing sorrow). Basically, both Amy's are almost singing to each other trying to see how both sorrow and happiness can work.
If you notice in the video, where the sorrow and happiness meet is in the scene with Amy sinking into the water. In essence, she's getting "rid" of her sorrow (Drowning it) and and at the end of the video, you see her reflection in the water meaning that Amy has let go of her sorrow side and is ready to move on to happiness.
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vocal LOL! I went as Amy Lee for Halloween but ended up going to FYE in the mall with my boyfriend and we bought The Open Door and went home and threw a party. Figures that we also gate-crashed my preppy sister's party. Lithium is like one of the best songs ever and I am going to play it with my band, The Arctic Army, at 8th grade graduation. Hooray for Evanescence!
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lyrics submitted on 05-09-2006
