Evanescence lyrics

Album: Anywhere But Home [2004]

Haunted
Long, lost words whisper slowly to me, Still can't find what keeps me here. When all this time i've been so hollow inside, I know you're still there... Watching me, wanting me, I can feel you pull me down. Fearing you, loving you. I won't let you pull me down... Hunting you i can smell you... Alive. Your heart pounding in my head... Watching me, wanting me, I can feel you pull me down. Saving me, raping me. I won't let you pull me down...

Going Under
Now I will tell you what i've done for you: Fifty thousand tears I've cried. Screaming, deceiving and bleeding for you, And you still won't hear me. I'm going under... Don't want your hand this time, I'll save myself, Maybe I'll wake-up for once. Not tormented for daily, defeating by you... Just when I thought I'd reached the bottom. I'm going under... Drowning in you. 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... I'm going under... Drowning in you. Falling forever... I've got to break through, I'm going under. So go on and scream, Scream at me. I'm so far away, I wont be broken again... I've got to breathe, I can't keep going under. I'm dying again I'm going under... Drowning in you. Falling forever... Iv'e got to break through, I'm going under. Going under, Drowning in you. I'm going under.

Taking Over Me
You don't remember me, but I remember you. I lie awake and try so hard not to think of you. But who can decide what they dream? And dream I do... I believe in you, I'll give up everything just to find you... I have to be with you, To live, to breathe, You're taking over me... Have you forgotten all I know and all we have. You saw me mourning my love for you and touched my hand. I knew you loved me then. I believe in you, I'll give up everything just to find you... I have to be with you, To live, to breathe, You're taking over me... I look in the mirror and see your face, If I look deep enough. So many things inside that just frighten you, Are taking over... I believe in you, I'll give up everything just to find you... I have to be with you, To live, to breathe, You're taking over me... (x2) (Taking over me...) You're taking over me (Taking over me...) Taking over me

Everybody's Fool
Perfect by nature, Icons of self-indulgence. Just what we all need, More lies about a world That never was and never will be Have you no shame, don't you see me? You know you've got everybody fooled. Look here she comes now, Bow down and stare in wonder. Oh, how we love you, No flaws when you're pretending. But now I know she Never was and never will be You don't know how you betrayed me And somehow you've got everybody fooled. Without the mask, Where will you hide? Can't find yourself, Lost in your lies. I know the truth now, I know who you are. And I don't love you anymore... It never was and never will be, You don't know how you betrayed me. And somehow you've got everybody fooled... Never was and never will be You're not real and you can't save me, And somehow now you're everybody's fool.

Thoughtless
All my hate cannot be bound I will not be drowned by your thoughtless scheming So you can try to tear me down Beat me to the ground I will see you screaming Thumbing through the pages of my fantasies Pushing all the mercy down, down, down I wanna see you try to take a swing at me Come on, gonna put you on the ground, ground, ground Why are you trying to make fun of me? You think it's funny? What the fuck you think it's doing to me? You take your turn lashing out at me I want you crying with your dirty ass in front of me All, all my hate cannot be bound I will not be drowned by your thoughtless scheming So you can try to tear me down Beat me to the ground I will see you screaming Thumbing through the pages of my fantasies I'm above you, smiling as you drown, drown, drown I wanna kill and rape you the way you raped me And, I'll pull the trigger And you're down, down, down Why are you trying to make fun of me? You think it's funny? What the fuck you think it's doing to me? You take your turn lashing out at me I want you crying with your dirty ass in front of me All, all my hate cannot be bound I will not be drowned by your thoughtless scheming So you can try to tear me down Beat me to the ground I will see you screaming All my friends are gone, they died They all screamed, and cried (Gonna take you down 4x) All, all my hate cannot be bound I will not be drowned by your thoughtless scheming So you can try to tear me down Beat me to the ground I will see you screaming All, all my hate cannot be bound I will not be drowned by your thoughtless scheming So you can try to tear me down Beat me to the ground I will see you screaming.

My Last Breath
Hold on to me love, You know I can't stay long. All I wanted to say was I love you and I'm not afraid, Can you hear me? Can you feel me in your arms? Holding my last breath, Safe inside myself. Are all my thoughts of you sweet raptured light? It ends here tonight. I'll miss the winter, A world of fragile things. Look for me in the white forest, hiding in a hollow tree. (Come find me...) I know you hear me, I can taste it in your tears. Holding my last breath, Safe inside myself. Are all my thoughts of you sweet raptured light? It ends here tonight. Closing your eyes to disappear, You pray your dreams will leave you here. But still you wake and know the truth, No one's there. Say goodnight, Don't be afraid. Calling me, calling me as you fade to black.

Farther Away
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, father 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. I run to you, Call out your name. I see you there, farther away. 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.

Breathe No More
I've been looking in the mirror for so long, 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 spirit's 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. And 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.

My Immortal
I'm so tired of being here, Suppressed by all my childish fears. And if you have to leave, I wish that you would just leave. Because your presence still lingers here, And it wont 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'd 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. Now i'm 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. These wounds wont seem to heal... This pain is just too real, There's just too much that time cannot erase. When you'd 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. I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone, But though you're still with me... I've been alone all along. When you'd 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.

Bring Me To Life
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's 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. (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 Bring me to life. (I've been living a lie, there's nothing inside) Bring me to life. Frozen inside without your touch, Without your love, darling. Only you are the life among the dead. (All of 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. (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 Bring me to life. (I've been living a lie, there's nothing inside) Bring me to life.

Tourniquet
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 God, my tourniquet, Return to me, salvation. My God, my tourniquet, Return to me, salvation. My wounds cry for the grave, My soul cries for deliverance. Will i be denied? Christ, tourniquet, My suicide...

Imaginary
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 choas - Your reality. I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge, The nightmare, I built my own world to escape. 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. Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming, Cannot cease for the fear of silent nights. Oh how I long for that deep-sleep dreaming, The goddess of imaginary light. 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.

Whisper
Catch me, as I fall. Say you're here and it's all over now. Speaking to the atmosphere, No one's here and I fall into myself. This truth, drives me into madness, I know I can stop the pain if I will it all away. (If I will it all away.) Don't turn away. (Don't give into the pain.) Don't try to hide. (Though they're screaming your name.) Don't close your eyes, (God knows what lies behind them.) Don't turn out the light. (Never sleep, never die.) I'm frightened by what I see, But somehow I know that there's much more to come Immobolized, by my fear, And soon to be blinded by tears, I can stop the pain if I will it all away. (If I will it all away.) Don't turn away. (Don't give into the pain.) Don't try to hide. (Though they're screaming your name.) Don't close your eyes, (God knows what lies behind them.) Don't turn out the light. (Never sleep, never die.) Fallen angels at my feet, Whispered voices at my ear. Death before my eyes, Lying next to me I fear. She beckons me shall I give in, Upon my end I shall begin. Forsaking all i've fallen for, I rise to meet the end. Don't turn away. (Don't give into the pain.) Don't try to hide. (Though they're screaming your name.) Don't close your eyes, (God knows what lies behind them.) Don't turn out the light. (Never sleep, never die.)

Missing
Please, please forgive me But I won't be home again Maybe someday you'll look 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 And am I that unimportant? And am I so insignificant? Isn't something missing? Isn't someone missing me? Even though I'm the sacrifice 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 I breathe deep and cry out Isn't something missing? Isn't someone missing me? Even though I'm the sacrifice 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? And if I bleed, I'll bleed Knowing you don't care And if I sleep Just to dream of you I'll wake without you there Isn't something missing? Isn't something... Even though I'm the sacrifice You won't try for me, not now Though I'd die to know you love me I'm all alone Isn't something missing? Isn't someone missing me?