Imaginary

A song story with "Imaginary" by Evanescence. Through the eyes of a boy with a sorow for th world. He wishes he could stay trapped in his fantasy world.

Reality mixed with a dream world. I wander in and out of what is real and what is not. I don’t know what keeps me here anymore. The world in which I live is cold, and the dream world I in which I wish I could stay drowns me in fantastic lies.

 

I linger in the doorway/Of alarm clocks screaming/Monsters calling my name/Let me stay/Where the wind will whisper to me/Where the raindrops s they’re falling tell the story

 

There are nightmares everywhere. The demons of my past chase after me. My future means nothing; it can’t be any good, considering the sorrows I’ve grown up with kill the excitement of living another day.

 

In my field of paper flowers/And candy clouds of lullaby/I lie inside myself for hours/And watch my purple sky fly over me

 

Instead of facing the world, I linger in fantasy. The dreams I wish could come true; I may as well wish upon a star. I am content, however. In these worlds of grassy plains and crystal-blue seas, relaxing next to me imaginary friends, nothing can harm me.

 

Don’t say I’m out of touch/With this rampant chaos, your reality/I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge/The nightmare/I’ve built my own world to escape

 

Why do they always tell me to grow up? They don’t understand me. Reality is something I’d rather cut my ties with. But I know when I must return to it. We aren’t friends; and beyond my slumbering being waits the iron fists of oppression and hunger.

 

Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming/Cannot cease for the fear of silent nights

 

All around, people are arguing, crying, and dying. These realizations are too much for me. I wish I can be ignorant and carefree, like a young child protected by with parents.

 

Oh, how I long for the deep-sleep dreaming/The Goddess of imaginary light

 

I don’t want to be here anymore. My eyes close, and I am taken back to me little world. Where I do not worry, and pain doesn’t exist. Here, I am safe.

Author's Note

Is the message clear?