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EVANESCENCE : "Bring Me To Life"

What is salvation? Is it something we strive for, something we earn? No, it is a gift. This song by Evanescence says it beautifully. I don't think it was written with salvation and grace in mind, but as I always say: the Holy Spirit moves in mysterious ways. In essence it is a love song. In essence The Song of Solomon in the Old Testament is a love song. Our relationship with God is at heart a love story: the greatest love story ever told.

I have been in some dark places in my life. Totally lost, totally alone, totally numb. But God reached out and brought me back. It was not something I was looking for at the time, not something I did, it was grace. God, in his love for me, reached into the pit and rescued me. At those times I was not able to seek Him, I didn't have the strength or will. Salvation is nothing that we do, it is what God does for us. We serve him, sure. Faith without works is dead. But that is not how we get to heaven.

We love God because he first loved us. He reaches down into the place where we are, even into the depths of the pit, and he touches us. Sometimes we may not even want to be saved, we have sunken too deep in our own despair to even care anymore. We may even hide from him, but that's okay, God still cares. He doesn't abandon us even when we abandon ourselves. He reaches out and brings us back. He brings us back to life.

EVANESCENCE LYRICS

"Bring Me To Life"
(feat. Paul McCoy)

how can you see into my eyes like open doors
leading you down into my core
where I’ve become so numb without a soul my spirit sleeping somewhere cold
until you find it there and lead it back home

(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I can’t wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me)
call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
bid my blood to run
(I can’t wake up)
before I come undone
(Save me)
save me from the nothing I’ve become

now that I know what I’m without
you can't just leave me
breathe into me and make me real
bring me to life

(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I can’t wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me)
call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
bid my blood to run
(I can’t wake up)
before I come undone
(Save me)
save me from the nothing I’ve become

Bring me to life
(I've been living a lie, there's nothing inside)
Bring me to life

frozen inside without your touch without your love darling only you are the life among the dead

all this time I can't believe I couldn't see
kept in the dark but you were there in front of me
I’ve been sleeping a thousand years it seems
got to open my eyes to everything
without a thought without a voice without a soul
don't let me die here
there must be something more
bring me to life

(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I can’t wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me)
call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
bid my blood to run
(I can’t wake up)
before I come undone
(Save me)
save me from the nothing I’ve become

(Bring me to life)
I’ve been living a lie, there’s nothing inside
(Bring me to life)