Hinter Evanescence ("das Dahinschwinden") stecken eigentlich Sängerin Amy Lee und Gitarrist und Songschreiber Ben Moody. Kennen gelernt haben sich die beiden Ende der 90er im Ferienlager, als Amy Klavier spielt und Ben damit so begeistert, dass er sich ein Herz fasst und sie fragt, ob sie nicht mit ihm zusammen Musik machen wolle.
Durch erste Aufnahmen Ende der 90er erlangen sie in ihrer Heimat Little Rock (Arkansas) einen gewissen Bekanntheitsgrad, ohne bis dahin auf der Bühne gestanden zu haben. Ende 2000 erscheint bei einem kleinen Label ihre erste CD "Origin".
Für ihr erstes "richtiges" Album können sich die beiden anschließend ein richtiges Studio in Los Angeles leisten und weitere Musiker verpflichten. So spielt unter anderem Josh Freese von "A perfect circle" die Schlagzeug-Parts ein. Schon kurz nach der Veröffentlichung von "Fallen" schießt das Album in den amerikanischen Charts ganz nach oben und die erste Single "Bring Me To Life" (Soundtrack: Daredevil) erhält mehr Radio-Airplay als jeder andere Evanescence-Song zuvor. Innert sechs Wochen erreicht ihre Platte sogar Platin-Status. Live tritt das Duo als komplette Band auf. Unterstützt werden sie dabei von John LeCompt an der Gitarre und Rocky Gray am Schlagzeug.
...Favourite Lyrics...
Farther Away My Immortal Going Under Bring Me To Life
Tourniqued Imaginary Hello Field Of Innocence Away From Me
That I've come to believe my souls on the other side
Oh the little pieces falling, shatter
Shards of me
To sharp to put back together
To small to matter
But big enough to cut me into so many little pieces
If I try to touch her
And I bleed
I bleed
And I breathe
I breathe no more
Take a breath and I try to draw from my spirits well
Yet again you refuse to drink like a stubborn child
Lie to me
Convince me that I've been sick forever
And all of this
Will make sense when I get better
I know the difference
Between myself and my reflection
I just can't help but to wonder
Which of us do you love
So I bleed
I bleed
And I breathe
I breathe now...
Bleed
I bleed
And I breathe
I breathe
I breathe
I breathe no more
But I won't be home again
Maybe someday you'll have woke up
And barely conscious you'll say to no one:
"Isn't something missing?"
You won't cry for my absence I know
You forgot me long ago
Am I that unimportant...?
Am I so insignificant...?
Isn't something missing?
Isn't someone missing me?
Even though I'd be sacrificed
You won't try for me not now
Though I'd die to know you love me
I'm all alone
Isn't someone missing me?
Please please forgive me
But I won't be home again
I know what you do to yourself
Shudder deep and cry out
Isn't something missing?
Isn't someone missing me?
And if I bleed I'll bleed
Knowing you don't care
And if I sleep just to dream of you
And wake without you there
Isn't something missing?
Isn't someone missing me?
I took their smiles and I made them mine
I sold my soul just to hide the light
And now I see what I really am
A thief a whore and a liar!
I run to you
Call out your name
I see you there farther away
I'm numb to you
Numb and deaf and blind
You give me all but the reason why
I reach but I feel only air at night
Not you not love just nothing
Try to forget you
But without you I feel nothing
Don't leave me here by myself
I can't breathe
I run to you
Call out your name
I see you there father away
(Fallen)
I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all of my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
Because your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears
And I've held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me
You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
But now iIm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away all the sanity in me
I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
And though you're still with me
I've been alone all along
(Fallen)
Now I will tell you what I've done for you
50 thousand tears I've cried
Screaming deceiving and bleeding for you
And you still won't hear me
Don't want your hand this time I'll save myself
Maybe I'll wake up for once
Not tormented daily defeated by you
Just when I thought I'd reached the bottom
I'm dying again
I'm going under
Drowning in you
I'm falling forever
I've got to break through
I'm going under
Blurring and stirring the truth and the lies
So I don't know what's real and what's not
Always confusing the thoughts in my head
So I can't trust myself anymore
I'm dying again
So go on and scream
Scream at me I'm so far away
I won't be broken again
I've got to breathe
I can't keep going under
(Fallen)
How can you see into my eyes like open doors
Leading you down into my core
Where I’ve become so numb
Without a soul
My spirit sleeping somewhere cold
Until you find it there and lead it back home
(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I can’t wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me)
Call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
Bid my blood to run
(I can’t wake up)
Before I come undone
(Save me)
Save me from the nothing I’ve become
Now that I know what I’m without
You can't just leave me
Breathe into me and make me real
Bring me to life
Frozen inside without your touch without your love darling
Only you are the life among the death
All this time I can't believe I couldn't see
Kept in the dark but you were there in front of me
I’ve been sleeping a thousand years it seems
Got to open my eyes to everything
Without a thought without a voice without a soul
Don't let me die here
There must be something more
Bring me to life
I’ve been living a lie, there’s nothing inside
(Fallen)
I tried to kill the pain
But only brought more
So much more
I lay dying
And i'm pouring crimson regret and betrayal
I'm dying praying bleeding and screaming
Am I too lost to be saved?
Am I too lost?
My God my tourniquet
Return to me salvation
My God my tourniquet
Return to me salvation
Do you remember me?
Lost for so long
Will you be on the other side
Or will you forget me?
I'm dying praying bleeding and screaming
Am i too lost to be saved?
Am i too lost?
My wounds cry for the grave
My soul cries for deliverance
Will I be denied Christ
Tourniquet
My suicide
(Fallen)
I linger in the doorway
Of alarm clock screaming
Monsters calling my name
Let me stay
Where the wind will whisper to me
Where the raindrops as they're falling tell a story
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
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 built my own world to escape
Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming
Cannot cease for the fear of silent nights
Oh how I long for the deep sleep dreaming
The goddess of imaginary light
(Fallen)
Playground school bell rings again
Rain clouds come to play again
Has no one told you she's not breathing?
Hello i'm your mind
Giving you someone to talk to
Hello
If I smile and don't believe
Soon I know I'll wake from this dream
Don't try to fix me I'm not broken
Hello I'm the lie living for you so you can hide
Don't cry
Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping
Hello I'm still here
All that's left of yesterday
(Origin)
I still remember the world
From the eyes of a child
Slowly those feelings
Were clouded by what I know now
Where has my heart gone
An uneven trade for the real world
I want to go back to
Believing in everything and knowing nothing at all
I still remember the sun
Always warm on my back
Somehow it seems colder now
Where has my heart gone
Trapped in the eyes of a stranger
I want to go back to
Believing in everything
(Origin)
I hold my breath as this life starts to take its toll
I hide behind a smile as this perfect plan unfolds
But oh, God, I feel I've been lied to
Lost all faith in the things I have achieved
And I
I've woken now to find myself
In the shadows of all I have created
I'm longing to be lost in you
(away from this place I have made)
Won't you take me away from me
Crawling through this world as disease flows through my veins
I look into myself but my own heart has been changed
I can't go on like this
I loathe all I've become
Lost in a dying world I reach for something more
I have grown so weary of this lie I live
Even In Death
(Origin)
Give me a reason to believe that you're gone
I see your shadow so I know they're all wrong
Moonlight on the soft brown earth
It leads me to where you lay
They took you away from me but now I'm taking you home
I will stay forever here with you
My love
The softly spoken words you gave me
Even in death our love goes on
Some say I'm crazy for my love, Oh my love
But no bonds can hold me from your side, Oh my love
They don't know you can't leave me
They don't hear you singing to me
And I can't love you
Anymore than I do
I'm dying.. But real love is forever
Forgive Me
(Sound Asleep)
Can you forgive me again?
I don't know what I said
But I didn't mean to hurt you
I heard the words come out
I felt like I would die
It hurt so much to hurt you
Then you look at me
You're not shouting anymore
You're silently broken
I'd give anything now
To hear those words from you
Each time I say something I regret
I cry "I don't want to lose you"
But somehow I know that you will never leave me
Cause you were made for me
Somehow I'll make you see
How happy you make me
I can't live this life
Without you by my side
I need you to survive
So stay with me
You look in my eyes and I'm screaming inside that I'm sorry
And you forgive me again
You're my one true friend
And I never meant to hurt you
Before The Dawn
(Demo)
Meet me after dark again and I'll hold you
I am nothing more than to see you there
And maybe tonight we'll fly so far away
We'll be lost before the dawn
If only night can hold you where I can see you my love
Then let me never ever wake again
And maybe tonight we'll fly so far away
We'll be lost before the dawn
Somehow I know that we can't wake again from this dream
it's not real but it's ours
Maybe tonight we'll fly so far away
We'll be lost before the dawn
Maybe tonight we'll fly so far away
We'll be lost before the dawn
Fall Into You
(David Hodges & Amy Lee)
Seems so far
That I have gone down this road
Only to find that it ends
But looking back
There is one thing that I know
I can't make it all alone again
Cause im too weak to stand on my own
But all I need is you
So lead me
Guide me
Hold me
Hide me in love
With all that you are
And all that you do
Hear me
Take me
Mold me
Break me a God
Just fill all of me
As I fall Into you
Just catch me as I fall
But all this time
I have felt so alone
losing myself in my dispair
With loving arms
You were waiting for me to let go
With every step
you were there
Cause I'm too weak to stand on my own
When all i need is you
Oh my child
How i have longed
You to come home
To where you belong
All of your life
If you could just see
All of my joy
When you are here with me
Solitude
(Evanescence EP)
How many times have you told me you love her
As many times as I've wanted to tell you the truth
How long have I stood here beside you
I live through you
You looked through me
Ooh Solitude
Still with me is only you
Ooh Solitude
I can't stay away from you
How many times have I done this to myself
How long will it take before I see
When will this hole in my heart be mended
Who now is left alone but me
Ooh Solitude
Forever me and forever you
Ooh Solitude
Only you only true
Everyone leave me stranded
Forgotten abandoned left behind
I can't stay here another night
Your secret in my heart
Who could it be
Ooh can't you see
All along it was me
How can you be so blind
As to see right through me
And Ooh Solitude
Still with me is only you
Ooh Solitude
I can't stay away from you
Ooh Solitude
Forever me and forever you
Ooh Solitude
Only you only true