Evanescence - Bring Me To Life (Demo V.2)

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AngelSacrifice
October 31, 2007

Amy Lee became inspired to write the song after an incident that occurred while she was sitting in a restaurant. "I was inspired to write it when someone said something to me — I didn't know him, and I thought he might be clairvoyant," says Lee from a tour stop in Tulsa. "I was in a relationship and I was completely unhappy. But I was hiding it. I was being completely abused and I was trying to cover it up; I wouldn't even admit it to myself. So then I had spoken maybe 10 or 15 words to this guy, who was a friend of a friend. We were waiting for everyone else to show up, and we went into a restaurant and got a table. And he looked at me and said, 'Are you happy?' And I felt my heart leap, and I was like, he totally knows what I'm thinking. And I lied, I said I was fine. Anyway, he's not really clairvoyant. But he is a sociology major."

Amy Lee's quote about the song from MTV.com: Basically, we go through life every day, kind of doing the same thing, going through the motions, and nothing phases us for the most part, then one day something happens that wakes you up and makes you realize that there's more to life than just feeling nothing, feeling numb. It's as if you've never felt before and just realized there's this whole world of emotion or meaning that you've never seen before. It's just like, 'Wow, I've been asleep all this time.

In an interview titled "Amy Lee: Back In Black", she said she wrote "Bring Me To Life" about her long time friend (now husband), Josh.

It was the second single off of the Daredevil Soundtrack (Fuel's Wont Back Down was first) and the first single off of Fallen. Bring Me to Life became the #1 pop song in the country the week of June 13th, 2003, only to be replaced a week later by Kelly Clarkson's Miss Independent. The song features Paul McCoy, the lead singer of 12 Stones.

The song was originally intended to be without the male vocals when Wind-up felt that it was best to put a male vocalist into the song for the Daredevil soundtrack. The version that featured Paul McCoy stuck.

In a magazine interview, Chester Bennington of Linkin Park said that Mike Shinoda was originally asked to be featured on the song. Linkin Park was recording Meteora in the same studio that Evanescence was recording Fallen.

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FlyleafLover18 (1 week ago) Show Hide

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oh my gosh this is amazing, so much better without the male vocals. :D

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me da mucha risa los comentarios idiotas que dejan
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1 Evanescence no es Gotico!
2el "Emo" no existe es creado por algo que no tiene cultura
3 i el que canta con amy lee es Paul McCoy de 12 Stones !!!!
DEJEN LA IGNORANCIA ! buen demo

FluorBen (2 weeks ago) Show Hide

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Stop labeling she's amazing~

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este si es bien gotico .

speeddemonld (2 months ago) Show Hide

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it wasn't linkin park. it was paul mccoy from 12 stones.

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but originally it was supposed to be Linkin Park. They switched it last minute.

This version sounds much closer to the Fallen version. I prefer this verson, you can hear Amy more clearly.

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This song is SO MUCH BETTER WITHOUT MALE VOCALIST...

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the final version isn't with Linkin Park, I know that because I'm a Linkin Park and the band that sing with Amy Lee isn't Linkin Park.

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It was the lead singer from 12 Stones. Wind Up wanted Mike Shinoda to be the one who did the male vocals, but it fell through.

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