from the album "The Open Door"
SWEET SACRIFICE
It's true, we're all a little insane, but it's so clear now that I'm unchained.Fear is only in our minds, taking over all the time, fear is only in our minds but it's taking over all the time.
You poor sweet innocent thing, dry your eyes and testify, you know you live to break me, don't deny, sweet sacrifice.
One day I'm gonna forget your name, one sweet day you're gonna drown in my lost pain.
Fear is only in our minds, taking over all the time, fear is only in our minds but it's taking over all the time.
You poor sweet innocent thing, dry your eyes and testify, and oh you love to hate me don't you, honey? I'm your sacrifice.
(I dream in darkness, I sleep to die, erase the silence, erase my life,
Our burning ashes blacken the day, a world of nothingness, blow me away.)
So you wonder why you hate? Are you still too weak to survive your mistakes?
CALL ME WHEN YOU'RE SOBER
Don't cry to me, if you loved me you would be here with me; you want me, come find me, make up your mind.Should I let you fall, lose it all, so maybe you can remember yourself?
Can't keep believing, we're only deceiving ourselves and I'm sick of the lie, and you're too late.
Don't cry to me, if you loved me you would be here with me; you want me, come find me, make up your mind.
Couldn't take the blame, sick with shame, must be exhausting to lose your own game.
Selfishly hated, no wonder you're jaded, you can't play the victim this time, and you're too late.
So don't cry to me, if you loved me you would be here with me; you want me, come find me, make up your mind.
You never call me when you're sober, you only want it cause it's over.
How could I have burned paradise? How could I, you were never mine.
So don't cry to me, if you loved me you would be here with me, don't lie to me, just get your things, I've made up your mind.
WEIGHT OF THE WORLD
Feels like the weight of the world, like God in heaven gave me a turn.Don't cling to me, I swear I can't fix you; still in the dark, can you fix me?
Freefall, freefall, all through life.
If you love me, then let go of me, I won't be held down by who I used to be, she's nothing to me.
Feels like the weight of the world, like all my screaming has gone unheard,
And oh, I know you don't believe in me; safe in the dark, how can you see?
Freefall, freefall, all through life.
If you love me, then let go of me, I won't be held down by who I used to be.
If you love me, then let go of me, I won't be held down by who I was.
LITHIUM
Lithium, don't want to lock me up inside, lithium, don't want to forget how it feels withoutLithium, I want to stay in love with my sorrow, but God I want to let it go.
Come to bed, don't make me sleep alone, couldn't hide the emptiness, you let it show.
Never wanted it to be so cold, just didn't drink enough to say you love me.
I can't hold onto me, wonder what's wrong with me.
Lithium, don't want to lock me up inside, lithium, don't want to forget how it feels without
Lithium, I want to stay in love with my sorrow, I don't want to let it lay me down this time, drown my will to fly.
Here in the darkness I know myself, can't break free until I let it go, let me go.
Darling, I forgive you after all, anything is better than to be alone,
And in the end I guess I had to fall, always find my place among the ashes.
I can't hold on to me, wonder what's wrong with me.
Lithium, don't want to lock me up inside, lithium, don't want to forget how it feels without
Lithium, stay in love with me, I'm gonna let it go.
CLOUD NINE
If you want to live, let live; if you want to go, let go; I'm not afraid to dream, to sleep, sleep forever.I don't need to touch the sky, I just want to feel that high, and you refuse to lift me.
Guess it wasn't real after all, guess it wasn't real all along.
If I fall and all is lost, it's where I belong.
If you want to live, let live; if you want to go, let go; I'm never gonna be your sweet, sweet surrender.
Guess it wasn't real after all, guess it wasn't real all along.
If I fall and all is lost, no light to lead the way, remember that all alone is where I belong.
In a dream, will you give your love to me, beg my broken heart to beat, save my life, change my mind?
SNOW WHITE QUEEN
Stoplight, lock the door, don't look back, undress in the dark and hide from you, all of you.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.
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.
Wake up in a dream, frozen fear, all your hands on me, I can't scream.
I can't escape the twisted way you think of me, I feel you in my dreams and I don't sleep.
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 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.
LACRYMOSA
Out on your own, cold and alone again, can this be what you really wanted, baby?Blame it on me, set your guilt free, nothing can hold you back now.
Now that you're gone, I feel like myself again, grieving the things I can't repair and willing
To let you blame it on me and set your guilt free, I don't want to hold you back now, love.
I can't change who I am, not this time, I won't lie to keep you near me.
And in this short life, there's no time to waste on giving up, my love wasn't enough.
And you can blame it on me, just set your guilt free, honey, I don't want to hold you back now, love.
LIKE YOU
Stay low, soft, dark, and dreamless, far beneath my nightmares and loneliness.I hate me for breathing without you, I don't want to feel anymore for you.
Grieving for you, I'm not grieving for you, nothing real love can't undo,
And though I may have lost my way, all paths lead straight to you.
I long to be like you, lie cold in the ground like you.
Halo, blinding wall between us, melt away and leave us alone again.
Humming, haunted somewhere out there, I believe our love can see us through in death.
I long to be like you, lie cold in the ground like you.
There's room inside for two and I'm not grieving for you, I'm coming for you.
You're not alone, no matter what they told you, you're not alone, I'll be right beside you forevermore.
I long to be like you, sis, lie cold in the ground like you did, there's room inside for two and I'm not grieving for you.
And as we lay in silent bliss, I know you remember me.
I long to be like you, lie cold in the ground like you.
There's room inside for two and I'm not grieving for you, I'm coming for you.
LOSE CONTROL
You don't remember my name, I don't really care.Can we play the game your way? Can I really lose control?
Just once in my life, I think it'd be nice, just to lose control, just once, with all the pretty flowers in the dust.
Mary had a lamb, his eyes black as coals; if we play very quiet, my lamb, Mary never has to know.
Just once in my life, I think it'd be nice, just to lose control, just once.
If I cut you down to a thing I can use, I fear there will be nothing good left of you.
THE ONLY ONE
When they all come crashing down midflight, you know you're not the only one.When they're so alone they find a back door out of life, you know you're not the only one.
We're all grieving, lost and bleeding.
All our lives we've been waiting for someone to call our leader.
All your lies I'm not believing, heaven shine a light down on me.
So afraid to open your eyes, hypnotised, you know you're not the only one.
Never understood this life, and you're right, I don't deserve, but you know I'm not the only one.
We're all grieving, lost and bleeding.
All our lives we've been waiting for someone to call our leader.
All your lies I'm not believing, heaven shine a light down on me.
Don't look down, don't look into the eyes of the world beneath you.
Don't look down, you'll fall down, you'll become their sacrifice.
Right or wrong, can't hold onto the fear that I'm lost without you.
If I can't feel, I'm not mine, I'm not real.
YOUR STAR
I can't see your star, though I patiently waited bedside for the death of today.I can't see your star, the mechanical lights of Lisbon frightened it away.
And I'm alone now, me and all I stood for.
We're wandering now, all in parts in pieces, swim lonely, find your own way out.
I can't see your star, how can the darkness feel so wrong?
And I'm alone now, me and all I stood for.
We're wandering now, all in parts in pieces, swim lonely, find your own way out.
So far away, it's growing colder without your love.
Why can't you feel me calling your name? Can't break the silence, it's breaking me.
All my fears turn to rage.
ALL THAT I'M LIVING FOR
All that I'm living for, all that I'm dying for, all that I can't ignore alone at night.I can feel the night beginning, separate me from the living, understanding me after all I've seen.
Piecing every thought together, find the words to make me better, if I only knew how to pull myself apart.
All that I'm living for, all that I'm dying for, all that I can't ignore alone at night.
All that I'm wanted for, although I wanted more, lock the last open door, my ghosts are gaining on me.
I believe that dreams are sacred, take my darkest fears and play them like a lullaby, like a reason why,
Like a play of my obsessions, make me understand the lesson so I'll find myself, so I won't be lost again.
All that I'm living for, all that I'm dying for, all that I can't ignore alone at night.
All that I'm wanted for, although I wanted more, lock the last open door, my ghosts are gaining on me.
Guess I thought I'd have to change the world to make you see me, to be the one.
I could have run forever, but how far would I have come without mourning your love?
All that I'm living for, all that I'm dying for, all that I can't ignore alone at night.
All that I'm wanted for, although I wanted more, lock the last open door, my ghosts are gaining on me.
Should it hurt to love you? Should I feel like I do? Should I lock the last open door, my ghosts are gaining on me.
GOOD ENOUGH
Under your spell again, I can't say no to you.Crave my heart and it's bleeding in your hand, I can't say no to you.
Shouldn't have let you torture me so sweetly, now I can't let go of this dream.
I can't breathe but I feel good enough, I feel good enough for you.
Drink up sweet decadence, I can't say no to you.
And I've completely lost myself and I don't mind, I can't say no to you.
Shouldn't have let you conquer me completely, now I can't let go of this dream.
Can't believe that I feel good enough, I feel good enough.
It's been such a long time coming, but I feel good, and I'm still waiting for the rain to fall, pour real life down on me,
Cause I can't hold on to anything this good enough, am I good enough for you to love me too?
So take care what you ask of me, cause I can't say no.
THE LAST SONG I'M WASTING ON YOU
Sparkling grey in my own veins.Any more than a whisper, any sudden movement of my heart and I know I'll have to watch them pass away.
Just get through this day.
Give up your way, you could be anything.
Give up my way and lose myself, not today, that's too much guilt to pay.
Sickened in the sun, you dare tell me you love me, but you held me down and screamed you wanted me to die.
Honey, you know I'd never hurt you that way, you're just so pretty in your pain.
Give up my way and I could be anything, I'll make my own way without your senseless hate.
So run and hate me if it feels good, I can't hear your screams anymore.
You lied to me, but I'm older now and I'm not buying, baby.
Demanding my response, don't bother breaking the door down,
I found my way out and you'll never hurt me again.
from the album "Evanescence"
WHAT YOU WANT
Do what you want if you have a dream for better, do what you want til you don't want it anymore (remember who you really are).Do what you want, your world's closing in on you now (it isn't over),
Stand and face the unknown (got to remember who you really are).
Every heart in my hands like a pale reflection.
Hello, remember me, I'm everything you can't control.
Somewhere beyond the pain, there must be a way to believe we can break through.
Do what you want, you don't have to lay your life down (it isn't over).
Do what you want til you find what you're looking for (got to remember who you really are).
But every hour slipping by screams that I have failed you.
Hello, remember me, I'm everything you can't control.
Somewhere beyond the pain, there must be a way to believe.
There's still time, close your eyes, only love will guide you home.
Tear down the walls and free your soul, til we crash we're forever spiralling down.
Hello, it's only me infecting everything you love.
Somewhere beyond the pain, there must be a way to believe.
Hello, remember me, I'm everything you can't control.
Somewhere beyond the pain, there must be a way to learn forgiveness.
Hello, remember me, I'm everything you can't control.
Somewhere beyond the pain, there must be a way to believe we can break through.
MADE OF STONE
Speak your mind, like I care, I can see your lips moving, I've just learned not to hear, don't waste your time.It's never enough for you, baby, don't want to play your game anymore, no matter what you say.
I'm all out of love for you, baby, and now that I've tried everything, I'll numb the pain til I am made of stone.
Take your time, I'm not scared, make me everything you need me to be so the judgement seems fair.
Don't waste your time, it's never enough for you, baby, don't want to play your game anymore, no matter what you say.
I'm all out of love for you, baby, and now that I've tried everything, I'll numb the pain til I am made to
Tear out my heart for the way that it feels, I will still remember when you've long forgotten me.
THE CHANGE
Thought that I was strong, I know the words I need to say; frozen in my place, I let the moment slip away.I've been screaming on the inside and I know you feel the pain, can you hear me?
Say it's over, yes it's over, but I need you anyway, say you love me but it's not enough.
Never meant to lie, but I'm not the girl you think you know; the more that I am with you, the more that I am all alone.
I've been screaming on the inside and I know you feel the pain, can you hear me?
Say it's over, yes it's over, but I need you anyway, say you love me but it's not enough.
Not that I'm so different, not that I don't see the dying light of what we used to be,
But how could I forgive you, you've changed, and I'm a liar by your side, I'm about to lose my mind.
Cause I've been screaming on the inside and I know you feel the pain, can you hear me?
You've been dreaming if you're thinking that I still belong to you, and I've been dying cause I'm lying to myself.
Say it's over, yes it's over, but I need you anyway, say you love me but it's not enough.
MY HEART IS BROKEN
I will wander til the end of time, torn away from you.I pulled away to face the pain, I close my eyes and drift away
Over the fear that I will never find a way to heal my soul,
And I will wander til the end of time, torn away from you.
My heart is broken, sweet sleep, my dark angel, deliver us from sorrow's hold over my heart.
I can't go on living this way, but I can't go back the way I came,
Chained to this fear that I will never find a way to heal my soul,
And I will wander til the end of time, half-alive without you.
My heart is broken, sweet sleep, my dark angel, deliver us.
Change, open your eyes to the light, I denied it all so long, say goodbye.
My heart is broken, release me, I can't hold on, deliver us.
THE OTHER SIDE
Make me whole again, open your eyes, taunted by the shadows of your light.Cold and far away like you're not even mine, undo everything and take me higher.
Never believing what they say, cause I'm counting the days to meet you on the other side.
I will always be waiting until the day that I see you on the other side, come and take me home.
I'm not giving in, I want you back, holding together by the shards of our past.
Stole my heart away, I can't let you go, break these chains and let me fly to you,
High above the world below, over and over in my mind.
Counting the days to meet you on the other side, I will always be waiting
Until the day that I see you on the other side, come and take me home.
I am so lost without my place inside your heart.
I won't survive, I need to know you hear me, awaken and release my love.
ERASE THIS
It's too late to change your mind, even though this fragile world is tearing apart at the seams.We can't wash these sins away, this sinking feeling every day I'm waking up in someone else's life.
Is it so hard for you, cause it's so hard for me to believe that what we dreamed could ever come to life again, cause I cannot erase this lie.
Not gonna let this day go by, I'm gonna save this wasted life and nothing can stand in my way.
Not enough to say goodbye, burn it til there's nothing left, I'm drowning in the mess that I have made.
Is it so hard for you, cause it's so hard for me to believe that what we dreamed could ever come to life again, cause I cannot erase this darkness in me.
The water's rising around us, there is no other way down, I only have myself to blame for it all.
Is it so hard for you, cause it's so hard for me to believe that what we dreamed could ever come to life again,
If I could just erase my mind, but I cannot erase this lie.
LOST IN PARADISE
I've been believing in something so distant, as if I was human.And I've been denying this feeling of hopelessness in me.
All the promises I made just to let you down, you believed in me but I'm broken.
I have nothing left, and all I feel is this cruel wanting.
We've been falling for all this time, and now I'm lost in paradise.
As much as I'd like the past not to exist, it still does.
And as much as I'd like to feel like I belong here, I'm just as scared as you.
I have nothing left, and all I feel is this cruel wanting.
We've been falling for all this time, and now I'm lost in paradise.
Run away, one day we won't feel this pain anymore.
Take it all away, shadows of you, cause they won't let me go.
I have nothing left, and all I feel is this cruel wanting.
We've been falling for all this time, and now I'm lost in paradise, alone and lost in paradise.
SICK
Embrace the silence, cause there's nothing that can change the way I feel.Taken all that you wanted, now there's nothing that can change the way I feel.
Hold on, little girl, the end is soon to come.
Sick of it all, we will not follow; sick of it all, they don't understand how sick we are of this bottomless pit of lies behind closed eyes.
Oceans between us, and there's nothing that can change the way I feel.
I can still taste the poison of every thought, every breath I wasted here.
Hold on, little girl, the end is soon to come.
Sick of it all, we will not follow; sick of it all, they don't understand how sick we are of this bottomless pit of lies behind closed eyes.
Someday you'll know the pain, someday the light will break through, and nothing you tell yourself will save us from the truth screaming out.
END OF THE DREAM
I found a grave, brushed off the face, felt your light and I remember why I know this place.I found a bird closing her eyes one last time, and I wonder if she dreamed like me.
As much as it hurts, ain't it wonderful to feel?
So go on and break your wings, follow your heart til it bleeds as we run towards the end of the dream.
I'm not afraid, I pushed through the pain and I'm on fire, I remember how to breathe again.
As much as it hurts, ain't it wonderful to feel?
So go on and break your wings, follow your heart til it bleeds as we run towards the end of the dream.
Why must we fall apart to understand how to fly? I will find a way, even without wings.
Follow your heart til it bleeds as we run towards the end of the dream,
Follow your heart til it bleeds and we've come to the end of the dream.
OCEANS
Don't want to be the one to walk away, but I can't bear the thought of one more day, I think I finally understand what it means to be lost.Can't find the road to lead us out of this, a million miles from where we burned the bridge,
Can't keep pretending everything's gonna be alright with the whole world falling down on me.
Cross the oceans in my mind, find the strength to say goodbye, in the end you never can wash the blood from your hands.
Fallen so far from where we were before, you'll never find what you've been searching for,
Something to fill the void and make up for all of those missing pieces of you, like I could only dream to do.
Cross the oceans in my mind, find the strength to say goodbye, everything that we believed in was a lie.
Cross the oceans in your mind, find a way to blur the line, in the end you never can wash the blood from your hands.
We never learn so we fall down again, heaven help me find a way to dream within this nightmare.
NEVER GO BACK
Everything is so dark and I know there's something wrong, but I can't turn the light on.In that split-second change, when you knew we couldn't hold on, I realised I lived to love you.
Save yourself, don't look back, tearing us apart until it's all gone.
The only world I've ever known sleeps beneath the waves, but I remember.
I won't give up on you, I can feel you in my heart, just show me the way, I don't belong here alone.
I can still see your face where it's burned into my mind, I die every time I close my eyes, you're always there.
Save yourself, don't look back, tearing us apart until it's all gone, the only world I've ever known sleeps beneath the waves,
But I'm the one who's drowning without your love, I am lost and I can never go back home.
All across the ocean we are calling, are you there?
Nothing left for me til I find you because it's all gone, the only world I've ever known sleeps beneath the waves,
But I'm the one who's drowning without your love, I am lost and I can never go back, I can never go back home.
SWIMMING HOME
Way down, I've been way down underneath this skin, waiting to hear my name again.I'm sorry, nothing can hold me, I adore you still, but I hear them calling, and nothing can hold me.
Way down, all the way down, I will hear your voice but I'll no longer understand.
I'm sorry, nothing can hold me, I adore you still, but I hear them calling.
I was looking to the sky when I knew I'd be swimming home, and I cannot betray my kind, they are here, it's my time.
I'm sorry, nothing can hold me, I adore you still, but I hear them calling, and nothing can hold me.
NEW WAY TO BLEED
Save your twisted enemy so you might earn forgiveness; you know your whole world is waiting, so why can't you speak?I feel it coming over me, I'm still a slave to these dreams, is this the end of everything or just a new way to bleed?
So go and tell all your friends that I'm a failure underneath if it makes you feel like a bigger man,
But it's my heart, my life that you're calling a lie, I've played this game before and I can't take any more.
I feel it coming over me, I'm still a slave to these dreams, is this the end of everything or just a new way to bleed?
By drifting far beyond the edge, freedom, can't you feel the ground caving in, freedom, give us a reason to believe again.
SAY YOU WILL
It's taking you too long to decide, and I don't want to be the one crying over wasted time.If you think you're strong enough to let me in, then come on, stand up and be honest.
I'm tired of feeling so alone cause you won't let me understand, I don't want to pretend, I want to feel, I want to love.
Say you will or say you won't open your heart to me; now or never, tell the truth, is this real?
Whenever you're around I can't fight it, you get under my skin the way that I like it, and I can't take anymore.
Tell me what you want from me or leave me alone, cause I'm all caught up and I'm losing control.
I'm tired of holding on so tight when you won't let me understand, now I'm falling apart, I never meant to lose myself.
Say you will or say you won't open your heart to me; now or never, tell the truth, is this real?
Like drops of rain against my heart, cut through like silver, and I want to make you feel that way, and I want to make you feel the way that I do.
DISAPPEAR
Hollow like you don't remember me, underneath everything I guess I always dreamedThat I would be the one to take you away from all this wasted pain, but I can't save you from yourself.
Don't you want to feel, don't you want to live your life? How much longer are you gonna
Give in to the fear, holding you down until you're frozen?
I can't let you fall apart, you don't even know what you've done to me,
But I would be the one to take you away from all this wasted pain, if you could just awaken.
Don't you want to feel, don't you want to live your life, how much longer are you gonna
Give in to the fear, holding you down until you're all alone and drowning in your past?
Take it back, I still believe you can.
Don't you want to feel, don't you want to live your life, how much longer are you gonna
Give in to the fear? I can't go on pretending, so give me something real.
No one in your way but you, how much longer are you gonna give in to the fear, holding you down til you disappear?
SECRET DOOR
Turn out the lights, feed the fire til my soul breathes free, my heart is high as the waves above me.Don't need to understand, too lost to lose, don't fight my tears cause they feel so good.
And I will remember how to fly, unlock the heavens in my mind, follow my love back through the same secret door.
Look past the end, it's a dream as it's always been, all life lives on if we've ever loved it.
And I will remember how to fly, unlock the heavens in my mind, follow my love back through the same secret door.
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