Many of L'âme Immortelle's songs feature melancholy or lovelorn lyrics in German or English, and juxtaposed harsh male and emotional female vocals. Current work has moved away from the band's electronic roots into the neue deutsche härte (New German hardness) genre.
L'âme Immortelle was formed in 1996 in Vienna, Austria by friends Thomas Rainer and Hannes Medwenitsch. Soon vocalist Sonja Kraushofer, a former classmate of Rainer, joined and the band sought a record contract. They released their first album, "Lieder die wie Wunden bluten" in 1997 on MOS Records in Lichtenstein, which became popular in the underground German Goth subculture. In 1999, L'âme Immortelle switched to Trisol Records. From 1998 through 2001, L'âme Immortelle released another LP yearly, each bringing the band greater popularity. In 2002, Medwenitsch left the band. Kraushofer and Rainer recruited Ashley Dayour as a guitarist and the re-formed L'âme Immortelle released a new single, "Tiefster Winter" in November 2002. In 2003, L'âme Immortelle released "Als die Liebe starb", as well as "Seelensturm", a collection of re-issued and re-mixed early material.
In 2004, the band switched labels again, this time to major label Supersonic, a subsidiary of Sony BMG Music Entertainment. The first issue following the switch was a collaboration with OOMPH! on the non-album single "Brennende Liebe" (released as OOMPH! feat. L'âme Immortelle); they also appeared in the video. Following that, L'âme Immortelle released a new album, "Gezeiten", which includes some of their most popular songs like "5 Jahre", "Stumme Schreie" and "Fallen Angel". A significant change in L'âme Immortelle's style is evident now that the band is on a major label; notably the electronic instrumentation of earlier work was less prominent in "Gezeiten".
Their latest album "Auf deinen Schwingen" has been released on August 2006 along with "Phönix" single. The record also includes songs like "Wohin" which contains text from another famous LAI song called "Aus den Ruinen", and "Nur Du" — a song which totally differs from older L'âme Immortelle work. The music video for this song is a cartoon, an unusual thing for the band.
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Hold me
L'Âme Immortelle Lyrics
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Beside me smiling in your sleep
What we both were getting into
Was not ours to keep
Feelings that were born to die
A bond bound to the broken
Painful waiting for goodbye
Hold me
Just for another day
Hold me
Until the tide of reason
Will sweep our dreams away
I did not mean to hurt you
Do you harm in any way
But you know as good as I do
That I cannot stay
With as many miles between us
We both know this cannot be
Kiss me
And then let me go
Kiss me
Like the sun kisses the snow
And now you're gone and I move on
On the road I chose to wed
I close my eyes and think of you
With "Iris" in my head
We know this cannot be
With as many miles between us
But from now until forever
In my dreams you'll be with me
The song "Hold Me" by L'Âme Immortelle is a melancholic yet beautiful ode to a fleeting and unfulfilled love. The lyrics evoke feelings of bittersweet nostalgia and wistful longing for something that was never meant to be. The opening lines "With blurry eyes I see you/ Beside me smiling in your sleep" paint a picture of a quiet and intimate moment shared by the two lovers. But the next line "What we both were getting into/ Was not ours to keep" hints at an underlying sense of impermanence and inevitability. The song goes on to explore the painfully ambivalent emotions felt by both parties, as they grapple with the realization that their feelings are doomed to wither away.
The chorus "Hold me/ Just for another day/ Until the tide of reason/ Will sweep our dreams away" captures the desperate desire to cling on to something that is slipping away, even if it is only for a little while longer. The line "A bond bound to the broken" suggests that the relationship was flawed from the start, and that the two lovers were always fated to drift apart. The repeated line "Kiss me/ And then let me go/ Kiss me/ Like the sun kisses the snow" is a poignant plea for a final moment of tenderness, before the inevitable end.
The closing lines "But from now until forever/ In my dreams you'll be with me" suggest that even though the relationship is over, the memory of it will never truly fade away. The song is both heart-wrenching and beautiful, capturing the universal experience of love and loss.
Line by Line Meaning
With blurry eyes I see you
I wake up with bleary eyes and see you lying beside me
Beside me smiling in your sleep
You are smiling while asleep beside me
What we both were getting into
The relationship we were having together
Was not ours to keep
But we both knew that it wasn't meant to last forever
Feelings that were born to die
Our relationship had no real future
A bond bound to the broken
Our connection was doomed from the start
Painful waiting for goodbye
We both knew it would end even though it hurt to say goodbye
Waiting for a last word spoken
We were both waiting for someone to say something, anything to prolong what we had
Hold me
Please just hold me for one more day
Just for another day
I know things won't change, but I just need some time
Until the tide of reason
Until we both realize that it's time to let go
Will sweep our dreams away
And we'll both accept that it's over and need to move on
I did not mean to hurt you
I didn't intend to do you harm
Do you harm in any way
I wanted to be with you, but it's not possible
But you know as good as I do
You know as well as I do that this can't continue
That I cannot stay
I can't stay and keep hurting you
With as many miles between us
We both understand that we can't keep this relationship going with such a distance between us
Kiss me
Just one more time, please kiss me
And then let me go
Afterwards, accept that we each need to go our separate ways
Like the sun kisses the snow
A bittersweet memory of our past together
And now you're gone and I move on
Now that it's over, we each need to continue with our lives without each other
On the road I chose to wed
On the path to my future, one that no longer involves you
I close my eyes and think of you
Even though it's over, you still cross my mind
With "Iris" in my head
The song "Iris" reminds me of us and our past together
But from now until forever
Even though we can't be together, in my dreams, you'll always be a part of me
In my dreams you'll be with me
Our past together lives on in my dreams
Contributed by Jake D. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Karen Duebler
Very, very nice words. They really tell a sad but so often true story. Love it. I'll be watching g for more of your work.
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Walter Lee
Ya Sonja hace las canciones con sentido artístico y no usa la mercadotecnia. Me agrada!.
Jose Maria Etxebaria
ein schönes Lied
Septakkord H.
hazlo!!