Music Reference

“Bring Me to Life” by Evanescence is about awakening from emotional numbness and realizing that the life you have been pretending to accept is slowly destroying you. Amy Lee’s narrator has become disconnected from her own feelings. She can move through daily life and appear normal, but internally she feels empty, frozen and almost absent…

“I Left My Home” is a traditional military cadence about the emotional cost of leaving family and civilian life to join the Army. Its central meaning is simple but painful: A recruit may leave home voluntarily, yet the decision still causes grief for the people standing at the door—and permanently changes the person walking away….