Evanescence Lyrics Source

 The Open Door (2006)

1. Sweet Sacrifice

2. Call Me When You're Sober

3. Weight of the World

4. Lithium

5. Cloud Nine

6. Snow White Queen

7. Lacrymosa

8. Like You

9. Lose Control

10. The Only One

11. Your Star

12. All That I'm Living for

13. Good Enough

14. The Last Song I'm Wasting On You (Pre-order CD Bonus Track)

15. If You Don't Mind (Outtake)

Videos:

16. Extended Exclusive Interview With Amy Lee

Digital Booklet - The Open Door

 About The Open Door

Straight from the horse's mouth (though Amy Lee is no horse! :)), in the Extended Exclusive Interview with Amy Lee:

"Right after we got off the road, we instantly went into hiding and started writing for the next record. ... You can hear on the album a lot of the changes that I've gone through in my life. The album's more mature. I mean, I'm a better musician than I was. Also, I've gained a lot of confidence. I'm not afraid to do a lot of things that, I guess, on the first record, I felt self-conscious about or maybe afraid to try. Musically, really, I just tried so many new things. I feel like this record has a lot more soul, in more ways than one. Mostly, I mean, I just really went with what I felt even more and was even more specific and true to myself.

"Like, for example, the first single, 'Call Me When You're Sober.' It's kind of impossible to misinterpret the lyrics. It's like, I really wanted to say something, and it's been said. And you can't look at it a different way, and, you know, like typical of my lyric writing, I guess you can apply it to your life and look at it two or three different ways, which a lot of the writing is still that way. But sometimes, I just really wanted to say something, and said it, and you can't hide from it. And I'm proud of that.

"'Lithium' is definitely a metaphor. I felt like I was in love with my sorrow, which I've always been. I get into these moods where I write music and it's not so much depressed, it's just this kind of strange low that I ride. At the same time, I wanted to be free and break through and be happy, and I think that was kind of me getting ready to be like, 'That's it!' and drop the ball, and just change, and move on.

"'Good Enough' does find me at peace, and I'm kind of scared of it. I think - it's weird - it was the bravest song to write and to bring to the table when we were recording the album, because it's just really real, and I was really saying what I really felt, and for once, that wasn't miserable, or stuck, or trapped, or sad, or grieving; it was happy. And I was like, well, I wrote a happy song. You guys are probably going to hate it. And they loved it, so I'm in love with 'Good Enough.' I feel like it's more the way I feel now, and it was the last song I wrote for the album. It's really cool that it's the last song on the album, because it's all the things that I went through and the point that I got to."

John LeCompt had some words as well:

"'All That I'm Living For,' to me, it's - Whenever I wrote the stuff that I did for that song, I kind of tried to keep in mind what Evanescence is to me. You know, I've kind of been around for a real long time, so I kind of know what it's going to sound like. And, although I didn't have a whole lot of writing on the first record, I've been playing these songs for years, so I think it has a lot of overtones of what happened on the last record, but way heavier."

From Terry Balsamo:

"Probably the song called 'Your Star,' I like a lot, and 'Sober,' I like a lot for a single."

And Rocky Gray:

"I don't know, just being able to do what I love to do every day and to be able to support my family doing what I like to do - I mean, you can't ask for more than that, really."

The album has a deeper tone to it, with a more symphonic style and unique musical structure. This record has more of a message to it than did the last one.