Wake Me Up Inside (Can't Wake Up)

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Wake Me Up Inside (Can’t Wake Up) are lyrics from the song Bring Me To Life by Evanescence. They are often associated with images of skeleton appearing to be screaming.

Origin

The song from which the lyrics originate is called Bring Me To Life, performed by an American group Evanescence. The song was recorded in 2002 and released on April 22, 2003.

The image, which the lyrics had become associated with the most, belongs to a wooden carved rocking chair made to look like a skeleton^[1](pictured below, left). On May 13th, 2013, a Tumblr user maohshounen posted an image, edited to have a superimposed head of the skeleton with a red filter and glowing eyes, (pictured below, right) with a comment “ah yes my throne”^[2].

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The earliest example of the association between the image and the lyrics date back to February 11th, 2014^[5]. On February 27th, 2014, an anonymous 4chan user posted a cropped screenshot of two files^[4], both of them being the crops of the edited skeleton rocking chair image above. The filenames of those two files were WAKE ME UP INSIDE.PNG and (CAN’T WAKE UP).PNG respectively.

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