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Apr 22nd 2007!⃝I know what Amy Lee has said about it being about stalkers but I look at it another way.
I think it is about a girl being raped by an alcoholic. And the alcoholic or a drug addict is her father or her boyfriend (most likely her boyfriend because she has a good relationship with her father). He happens to be controlling too.
Unfortunately, I think I can make some personal connections.
"stoplight lock the door
undress in the dark
and hide from you
all of you"
When I felt like I was being watched, I locked the door, undressed quickly and hid under the blankets.
"You'll never know the way your words have haunted me
I can't believe you'd ask these things of me
You don't know me"
The girl still loves him but when someone speaks to you in an unpleasant way like rape, it stays in your mind. And the girl can't believe someone would ask her to do that.
"You belong to me, my snow white queen
There's nowhere to run, so let's just get it over
Soon I know you'll see you're just like me
Don't scream anymore my love, cause all I want is you"
I think this is the boyfriend/father saying this. He is saying you are mine and he finally has her in a room where she can't escape. And she is screaming but all he wants sex.
"Wake up in a dream
Frozen in fear
All your hands on me
I can't scream"
This is a time where the girl wakes up and sees him on top of her.
"I can't escape the twisted way you think of me
I feel you in my dreams and I don't sleep"
It is twisted to think about raping someone. And she can barely sleep because she is afraid.
"I can't save your life
Though nothing I bleed for is more tormenting
I'm losing my mind and you just stand there and stare
As my world divides"
She can't help is alcohol/drug problem and she fears it's going to be the end of the person. She feels like she is falling into a black hole right before his eyes and he isn't helping her.
That is just my interpretation though. Feel free to critique it.
