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Fallen (2003)

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About Fallen

This album, released in March 2003, is Evanescence's first studio album. It remains the band's best-selling album on iTunes, with the immensely popular singles "Bring Me to Life," "My Immortal," "Going Under," "Everybody's Fool," and "Imaginary." The album was re-released in 2004, with the addition of "My Immortal (Band Version)." This is the version of "My Immortal" that is on Mystary - EP.

"We've all fallen," stated Amy Lee, "but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again."

"Going Under" is Amy Lee's favorite song on the album. It was also the last song written for the album. The song describes the feeling of being "at the end of your rope, when you're at the point where you realize something has to change," (Lee) and is about Lee's relationship with an abusive partner. The trailer for the film Tristan and Isolde features this song.

"Bring Me to Life" is featured on the soundtrack for Daredevil and so became the first single for the album. Lee was inspired to write the song when a man asked her if she was happy in a restaurant. "We go through life every day," Lee stated, "kind of doing the same thing, going through the motions...then one day, something happens that wakes you up."

"Everybody's Fool" is Lee's view of the Hollywood image that so many young actors and singers feel pressure to conform to. Her younger sister, Carrie Lee, had recently become interested in female pop singers and had begun to dress and act like them. This angered Amy, who felt that the idealized images of these stars was only a cover-up for the nasty lives they led. This song dispels the myth of the perfect lives of the rich and famous. The music video for this song shows Amy Lee playing a model who resents representing the Lies company.

"My Immortal" is still one of the band's most popular songs, written by Ben Moody. It's about separation and loss, as illustrated in the video, which, incidentally, was filmed just two weeks before Moody left the group. The song is not personal to Lee, as it does not relate to any of her own experiences. In the music video, you may notice that Lee's feet never touch the ground "to hint that I'm dead," she explained, "that I'm singing from the dead." The video was filmed in Barcelona.

"Haunted" was inspired by a short story written by Moody about a little girl who becomes trapped in an ever-changing house and kept alive for ten years by a mysterious figure who is "her only friend and her only hate."

"Tourniquet" is the only religious song on the album, originally credited to Rocky Gray. It was originally entitled "My Tourniquet." After the bridge, Lee screams, "I want to die." In the two demo versions, this was Juliet's quote "I long to die," from the film Romeo and Juliet. The outro for "Tourniquet" flows into the intro for "Imaginary."

"Imaginary" is about escapism, finding a place to hide from the real world. Lee claims to have written the lyrics about the times she spent in her old bedroom.

"'Taking Over Me' is about obsession, like you're obsessed with someone who you believe is the one for you," said Lee of the eighth track on the album. "I don't know. It's about obsession."

Lee's inspiration for the song, "Hello," was her little sister who died at age three. Lee was six at the time and received a call while at school. The song explores death from a child's perspective. At the end of the song, Lee realizes that this is not a dream ("Suddenly, I know I'm not dreaming.").

"My Last Breath" was written in memorial for the victims of 9/11.

"Whisper" is one of Lee's favorite songs to play live. However, she doesn't relate to it as much now because, in her words, "I'm not really at a very dark place in my life at all right now."