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Evanescence (Deluxe Version) (2011)

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About Evanescence (Deluxe Version)

From the Evanescence bonus commentary:

"'Secret Door' is where I finally get to showcase my harp playing," laughs Amy Lee. "So when we stopped touring at the end of 2007, and we were off, we weren't doing anything and I didn't have any plans, I thought, I'm ready to learn a new instrument. I took classical piano for many years growing up and I was used to having piano lessons once a week, studying, learning a piece, and once Evanescence was really happening, I was out of high school and everything and I wasn't learning anymore. I was writing my own music and kind of working cyclically, internally, and I miss learning. It's cool when you're learning because you feel like you're constantly - You get new ideas from that. You get better. So I took harp lessons for like a year and that felt really good, and now I can play it a little. I'm not some amazing harpist or anything - I'm a novice - but it's fun to be able to do. 'Secret Door' is the once song on the album that is really different. It's just harp and orchestra, basically. It's like when you're in a dream and there's this magical place and you wake up and you don't want to wake up - and just like always trying to get back into that same dream. That's what that was inspired by."

<On "The Change"> "This is a song that came out of when we were pre-production, too. It was an idea that Tim (McCord) had from a long time ago, but it sounded a lot different. It was slower. We were looking for something to start from to write a song, and I heard that one, and he was just going through, and I was like, 'Ooh, that - what was that? Right away - I really like that one!' I had the melody for the verse right away. It was funny, because we were writing in our apartment and the other guys were writing in the other apartment, and the next day, when we came together in the rehearsal space, both ideas worked together at the same time. So the two guitar parts in the verses were two completely different things that we matched together and it worked, and it was this cool, happy accident. So that was fun. I love that song; I love that the chorus - the main part of the chorus - doesn't have any lyrics, so it's just kind of an outcry."

"It ['Never Go Back'] was inspired by the earthquakes and the tsunami in Japan. We were writing right at that time, and we were all just watching it on the news, and horrified and moved and glued to the news a little bit during that. It just kind of kept running around in my mind at that time, and when I started writing the lyrics for it, I just slowly sort of started realizing, 'Wow, I'm writing about this. I'm just going to go ahead and fully write about this.' It's definitely open for all kinds of interpretation. But, yeah, it's just about losing someone and losing everything, like in that moment when everything's totally beyond your control - we're all just kind of - It levels the playing field, and we're just human in that moment, powerless to a great force. I think that's just really moving to me."

"'Made of Stone' is a song that we've been working on for a really long time. I had that one really from the first time that we went into the studio for a minute a year ago and it was part of that batch of songs that was really in a different direction for us. And then, bringing the band into it and making it more of this full rock song just, wow, really jumped it up to a new level, sort of like the way I always wanted it to be."

"Terry and Tim and I wrote this one ['Disappear'] when we were actually - this really cool writing session that we had when the three of us went to the middle of nowhere in California, like out in wine country. But where we were staying didn't even have a name, the town we were in. The nearest town was 20 miles away and we were just on this cliff. We rented this house for two or three weeks, and we were just up there writing. That was one of the songs that I didn't know if it was going to make it. It was very different-sounding, like that chorus, but it sounds - I don't know, I can't even describe it. It's just a very different style, vocally, for me. But I loved it; it was just singing out of fun. It's cool, it's neat when you start with an idea and you're not sure about it, but then the more you play it with the band, it becomes something bigger and better."