Music / Evanescence

Do what you, what you, want!

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.

— "Bring Me to Life"

Evanescence is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by (then teenaged) singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. Since their first big hit "Bring Me to Life in 2003, the band have won two Grammy Awards so far and experienced various changes in their line-up.

The band's melancholic and morbid sound got them firmly in the goth category by the public. Coupled with accessible and fairly emotional songwriting, this gained the band Wolverine Publicity among the "goffik" populace of fanfic writers. This emo appeal was perhaps one of the arbitrary reasons why they were associated with Linkin Park by many, along with both bands' popular association with Nu Metal and their memetic reputations as go-to "wangsty" music. For those more familiar with Gothic Metal, Evanescence can also be heard being compared with Lacuna Coil and Within Temptation.

The band went on "indefinite hiatus" in 2012, following the release in 2011 of their Self-Titled Album and their being sold to Concord Music Group (CMG) and Lee's statement that the band needed to take a break to "figure things out."

In 2014, it was announced that Lee would be suing Wind Up Records for "$1.5 million in unpaid royalties," and that Evanescence had left CMG and were now independent artists. She also revealed that she would be releasing her first solo album (titled Aftermath), which was released on August 25, 2014. The album is also the soundtrack to the film War Story., and is a collaboration with cellist/composer Dave Eggar. In 2016, Lee released a solo children's album, Dream Too Much.

The band performed with an orchestra (a group of local classical musicians in each respective city on the tour) in late 2017 tour to promote the album Synthesis, then reprised the orchestra tour in the summer of 2018 in a co-headlining tour with Lindsey Stirling.

In March 2021, their long-awaited fourth album, The Bitter Truth, was released. It is their first since 2011 to feature all-new content.

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Discography:

• Evanescence EP (1998; demo)
• Sound Asleep EP (1999; demo)
• Origin (2000; demo album)
• Fallen (2003)
• Anywhere But Home (2004; Live album and DVD)
• The Open Door (2006)
• Evanescence (2011)
• Lost Whispers (B-Side/rarities collection; 2016 vinyl release as part of box set, 2017 digital release)
• Synthesis (2017) ^note a collection of symphonic-based re-arrangements of older songs, with 2 new tracks
• The Bitter Truth (2021; some tracks released as singles in 2020)

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Band Members, Past and Present:

Current:

• Amy Lee - lead vocals, keyboards, harp (1995-present)
• Tim McCord - bass, live rhythm guitar (2006-present)
• Will Hunt - drums (2007, 2010-present)
• Troy McLawhorn - lead guitar, backing vocals (2007, 2011-present)
• Emma Anzai - live bass (2022-present)

Former:

• Ben Moody - lead guitar (1995-2003)
• Terry Balsamo - lead guitar (2003-2015)
• David Hodges - keyboard, piano, drums, backing vocals (1999-2002)
• Rocky Gray - drums, percussion (2003-2007; live member 2002-2003)
• John Le Compt - rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2003-2007; live member 2002-2003)
• Jen Majura - rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2015-2022)
• Will Boyd - bass (2003-2006)

Session Musicians:

• Francesco di Cosmo - bass (2003; appears on Fallen)
• Josh Freese - drums, percussion (2003; appears on Fallen)

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Bring tropes to life:

• Broken Bird: Amy Lee gives off this vibe through most of her musical work.
• Changed for the Video: "My Immortal" is much more guitar centered in the music video version, while the regular album version is more orchestral and doesn't feature multiple Amy Lees in the chorus.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Amy Lee's signature fashion style is this (she even had a Lolita dress made by h.NAOTO, a renowned Visual Kei designer), though her current style seems to be a mix of this, Ero Loli, and Aristocrat in the same vein as most female Goth Rock singers.
• I Am the Band: Amy is the only original member left. You can replace just about anyone in a band except for the singer without anyone noticing on a CD. Her aggressive firing of other members (sometimes even on the phone) doesn't help either.
• Lesser Star: Ben Moody, despite being a co-founder and the primary songwriter, has never achieved the level of recognition that Amy Lee has.
• Male Band, Female Singer: Seen since the beginning, with Amy Lee being most well-known member and the only member remaining from the original formation. Averted as of 2015, when Jen Mazura joined on guitar.
• Prefers Going Barefoot: Amy is frequently barefoot on stage, in videos, and in photos.
• Revolving Door Band: This started even before the band got big with Fallen. None of Evanescence's three major albums to date have had the same lineup across consecutive albums at the time of respective releases.
• The Band Minus the Face: Three former Evanescence members (including co-founder Ben Moody) and a new female lead singer (former American Idol contestant Carly Smithson) founded We Are the Fallen, a band that sounds not unlike Evanescence. And if you compare the current and former faces of Moody's bands, it's practically a case of Replacement Goldfish. Moody also wrote "Don't Tell Me" for Avril Lavigne, which included the Take That! section: "You wiped my tears, got rid of all my fears, why did you have to go? Guess it wasn't enough to take up some of my love / Guys are so hard to trust / Did I not tell you that I'm not like that girl? / The one who gives it all away."

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The music of Evanescence provides examples of:

• Album Title Drop:
  • The line "lock the last open door" from "All That I'm Living For".
  • The line "forsaken all I've fallen for I rise to meet the end" in "Whisper".
  • The line "just pass me the bitter truth" in "Wasted On You".
• Audience Participation Song: The Anywhere But Home performance of "My Immortal".
  • Also at their shows "Going Under" and "Bring Me to Life" really get the crowd into it.
• Arc Words: Oceans, Dreams, Drowning, and Beneath the Waves on Evanescence.
• Break-Up Song: "Call Me When You're Sober," "Cloud Nine," "Made of Stone," "Oceans," "Sweet Sacrifice," "The Change," and "If You Don't Mind".
• Call-Back:
  • "Unraveling" is a reprise of "Bring Me to Life" in Synthesis.
  • "The In-Between" recalls melodies from "Hello" and "Never Go Back".
• Canis Latinicus: Whisper's Latin chanting, "servatis a periculum, servatis a malelficum," is meant to mean: "save us from danger, save us from evil," but conjugated the verb incorrectly, omitted the pronoun, and forgot to decline the nouns. The result is that what they're saying actually translates as near gibberish: "you all save danger from, you all save evil from." The correct phrases in Latin would have been, "serva nos a periculo, serva nos a malefico."
• Careful with That Axe: "Tourniquet".
  I LONG TO DIEEEEEE!!!
• Cloudcuckoolander: "Imaginary" is a rather depressive version. The narrator builds her own world in her head, her "sleeping refuge," to escape the horror of reality.
  In my field of paper flowers
  And candy clouds of lullaby (paper flowers)
  I lie inside myself for hours
  And watch my purple sky fly over me (paper flowers)
• Cover Version: What they did to Korn's "Thoughtless" and Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box". Also, "Tourniquet" is technically a cover of a song by Christian Metal band Soul Embraced, whom former Evanescence drummer Rocky Gray was the lead guitarist for. Hence him getting co-writing credit on Evanescence's version.
  • The band recorded a cover of Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" for Gears 5. That and a "live from home" cover of Bananarama's "Cruel Summer" appear on the extended version of The Bitter Truth.
• Concept Album:
  • Fallen is That we are all fallen, but we can get up again.
  • The Open Door is to consider locking the last open door behind you (in negative situations) before moving on with your life and hopefully happiness.
  • Evanescence is follow your instincts / heart, dreams, oceans, and the other side of death.
• Defiled Forever: "My Heart Is Broken" has shades of this trope in the verses due to being partially inspired by the horrors of sexual abuse. Amy's note on this (from Kerrang! magazine):
  "A good friend of mine heads up an organization in New York that rescues victims of sex trafficking. My husband and I got involved and were really moved and horrified. As I was writing the song I was putting myself in that place – what would it be like to be trapped? Threatened? Alone? Unable to tell anyone what was happening because you're afraid of what would happen?"
• Determined Defeatist: The narrator of "Whisper" is frightened and desperate, knows that the situation will only get worse, and keeps going.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: "My Last Breath," from the perspective of the one dying.
  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?
• Driven to Suicide: The subject of "Tourniquet".
  • Implied in "Missing". The lyrics sound a lot like a suicide note.
  • "Imperfection" speaks out to someone on the verge of suicide, urging them to defy this trope.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: "Good Enough" at the end of The Open Door and to a degree "Secret Door" at the end of Self-Titled Album deluxe edition.
• Epic Instrumental Opener: The opening to "Good Enough" is like waking up with the modulation between chords. Explained as, An instrumental segment on the front of the song. The first 60 seconds have an entirely different composition, with a slower tempo, before jumping to what's more obviously the preamble to the regular song, which goes for around 15 seconds before vocals begin.
  • "The In-Between" piano solo is this to "Imperfection", whose music video includes the former.
  • The 2002 version of "Whisper" has a 1-and-a-half minute long intro (a combination of two score pieces from William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet) before the song proper. Also, the version of "Bring Me to Life" played live at Cologne served as this trope.
• Epic Rocking: The instrumental track "Eternal" from Origin is 7:22. To be fair however, it's not one song, but three unreleased songs spliced together.
• Escapism: The narrator of "Imaginary" builds her "sleeping refuge," her own world in her head, to escape the horror of reality.
• Ethereal Choir: "Understanding", "Solitude", "Field of Innocence", and "Lacrymosa".
• Evolving Music: "Imaginary". Best shown when you play the Origin, Fallen, and Synthesis versions chronologically.
• Fading into the Next Song:
  • On Fallen: "Tourniquet" to "Imaginary".
  • On The Open Door: "Like You" to "Lose Control" and "The Only One" to "Your Star".
  • On Evanescence: "The Change" to "My Heart is Broken".
  • On Anywhere But Home and other live shows: "Bring Me to Life" to "Tourniquet".
  • On Synthesis: "The In-Between" to "Imperfection".
• Follow Your Heart: "Whisper," "Lose Control," "The Only One," "All That I'm Living For," "What You Want," "Erase This," "Lost in Paradise," "Sick," and "End of the Dream".
  • Aesop of "All That I'm Living For" and "Lost in Paradise".
  • "All That I'm Living For" is for other creative types particularly noted.
  • "The Change," except in a relationship context.
• Grief Song: "My Immortal," "Even in Death," "Hello," "Like You," "The Other Side," "My Heart is Broken," "Never Go Back". And more.
• Growing Up Sucks:
  • "Field of Innocence" is about this; The line "I still remember the sun, always warm on my back/Somehow it seems colder now" in particular.
  • Word of God says "My Heart is Broken" is about growing up and losing innocence at an extremely young age. Knowing Amy's personal experiences (and the line "Sweet sleep, my dark angel"), it's probably inspired, at least in part, by her deceased younger sister, as "Hello" and "Like You" were on Fallen and The Open Door before it.
• Happy Place: "Imaginary" is about Amy's old room, viewed through the lens of a Broken Bird/possibly formerly abused child.
• Harsh Vocals: "Lies" features the lead singer of Christian metal band Living Sacrifice giving both spoken prose and death growls.
• Heart Beat Soundtrack: "The Only One" features a pounding pulse underneath the song.
• Hidden Track: "My Immortal (Band Version)" is not noted on re-pressings of Fallen.
• Incredibly Long Note: In "End Of the Dream," "Bring Me to Life," "Cloud Nine," "Oceans," "Going Under," "Sweet Sacrifice," "Lose Control," "New Way to Bleed," "The Change," "Whisper," "The Only One," and "Never Go Back."
• Insecure Love Interest:
  • "Good Enough" asks, "Am I good enough for you to love me too?"
  • "All That I'm Living For":
    Guess I thought I had to change the world to make you see me
    To be the one
• Ironic Nursery Tune: In "Lose Control", implying a possible case of infidelity:
  Mary had a lamb,
  His eyes black as coal.
  If we play very quiet, my lamb,
  Mary never has to know.
• Kill It with Fire: In "Erase This:"
  Not enough to say goodbye!
  Burn it until there's nothing left!
• The Last Title: "The Last Song I'm Wasting on You", a hodgepodge of lyrical bits and pieces over a simple piano track. The "you" is almost certainly Ben Moody.
• Loudness War: The self-titled album, right from the opening drums. The music volume was higher than the actual stereo volume.
• Lyrical Dissonance:
  • "Imaginary" is about a dreamworld filled with "paper flowers" and not wanting to be part of the scary real world. Not that you would know that from the minor key and 'epic' guitar riffs on both songs. In the Fallen version only, the Origin version is more soft and dreamy.
    • The Synthesis rework pulses with bass from the first verse and though the guitars have said goodbye, this song gets more epic as it progresses.
  • "Anywhere" from their Origin album has a distinctly hopeful (if melancholy) sound. At first blush, it's a sweet song about starting a new life with a loved one. And then... That One Line kind of ruins it:
  Unlock your heart. Drop your guard. No one's left to stop you!
  • "The Other Side," off Evanescence, a desperate grief song with a determined sexy riff.
  • "Never Go Back," similar reasoning, sad song about facing death while trying to save your loved ones, with blasting guitars and powerful drum sections.
  • "The Change," a break up song focusing on the tragedy of leaving a bad situation for your soul and how sad and lost you feel, but it uses the instruments as if they were all weapons, even the Ah Ah Ah bits are for war and not peace.
  • "Like You" is dissonant throughout, but features an ironic (and chilling) twist just before the second hook:
  The humming, haunted somewhere out there
  I believe that love can see us through...in death.
• Lyrical Tic: Amy and her band are fond of "ah-ah-ah"s in their songs.
  • "Lose Control" and "The Change" would be be the best examples...
  • Also in the beginning of "Lies".
  • And the pre-chorus of "End of the Dream".
  • And in "Missing," three times.
  • And in "Imaginary."
  • Subtly, "The Only One".
• Lyrical Cold Open: "Going Under", "Lithium" (The Open Door version), and "Exodus."
• Love Is a Drug: In the most devastating way possible in "Lithium:"
  Just didn't drink enough to say you love me.
  Lithium, stay in love with me.
• Love Martyr: "Made of Stone," "Lithium," "Imaginary," "Taking Over Me," to name a few.
• Living Emotional Crutch:
  • "My Immortal":
    When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
    When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
    And I held your hand through all of these years
  • "Taking Over Me":
    I have to be with you to live, to breathe
  • "All That I'm Living For":
    Take my darkest fears and play them
    Like a lullaby
    Like a reason why
    Like a play of my obsessions
    Make me understand the lesson
    So I'll find myself
    So I won't be lost again
• Melismatic Vocals: "The Only One", "Hi-Lo", and "My Heart Is Broken" are some of the biggest offenders.
• Mummies at the Dinner Table: "Even in Death," which Ben Moody describes as: "...Someone who's in a relationship, they lose their loved one, and they kind of flip out, and they go and dig them up..."
• Music Box Intervals: "Bring Me to Life" obviously...
• New Sound Album:
  • The Open Door, compared to Evanescence and Fallen, has more classical elements and is more about build.
  • Synthesis is almost entirely made of electronics and string sections, with the rock instruments pushed to the background.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Take horrific and deadly situations, put a sexy riff behind it... See "Haunted", "Even in Death", "The Other Side", "Tourniquet"...
• Non-Appearing Title:
  • "My Immortal", "Cloud Nine", "October", "The Last Song I'm Wasting on You", "Haunted."
  • A few subversions, too:
    • "Lacrymosa" is not in the main lyrics, but "Lacrimosa" is sung in the background through the chorus.
    • "Hi-Lo" has "high or low" in the hook.
    • "The Change": How can I forgive you? You've changed.
    • "Whisper" instead drops the album title: Fallen angels at my feet, whispered voices at my ear.
• "Not So Different" Remark: In "Snow White Queen," the stalker invokes this with their victim: "Soon I know you'll see / You're just like me."
• Obsession Song:
  • "Snow White Queen" (both the stalker and the stalkee,) "Taking Over Me," "Surrender," "Anything for You," "Away from Me," "Farther Away," "The Other Side," "Haunted," "Even in Death," and "Lithium."
  • Subverted with "Haunted," as the lyrics seem to be from the mind of the victim of a Stalker with a Crush.
  • "Lithium:" Both in the sense of what the songs is about being in love with her own unhappiness and addicted to her own sorrow and the relationship she had with the guy who inspired her to write it. Of the kind of "passive" obsession type:
  Come to bed, don't make me sleep alone
  Anything is better than to be alone
  I want to stay in love with my sorrow.
• The Ophelia: "Erase This," "Swimming Home," and "Never Go Back" make a big deal out of death by drowning and insanity, and the greater theme of the Evanescence album is drowning to a degree.
• Ominous Latin Chanting: "Field of Innocence," "Whisper," "The End," "Lacrymosa."
• One-Woman Wail:
  • Amy's vocal when the rock is absent, especially on "Lacrymosa."
  • "The Change" shows she can do it when the rock is present as well.
  • She has a habit of doing this (and frequently does so) in concerts.
• Pimped-Out Dress: Amy in the cover◊ of The Open Door.
  • Also this◊ Synthesis promo pic.
• Precision F-Strike:
  • None of their own songs at the time of its release, but their cover of Korn's Thoughtless from the Anywhere But Home live album certainly counts; "You think it's funny/what the fuck you think you're doing to me". This caused some controversy as the album was released without a parental advisory warning, with the track unedited.
  • Amy finally busts one out in one of their own songs in "Imperfection".
    The world's a little more fucked up everyday
  • A downplayed example occurs with "Use My Voice".
    Label me "bitch" because I dare to draw my own line
  • "Yeah Right" features the line "I'm reaching a new level of not giving a fuck".
• Property of Love: The stalker in "Snow White Queen" tells their victim, "You belong to me."
• Real Life Writes the Plot: The band has stated that "My Last Breath" was inspired by the 9/11 attacks. "Never Go Back" was written after the 2011 Japanese tsunami
• Rock Me, Amadeus!: "Lacrymosa" samples the opening of the "Lacrimosa" from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Requiem" throughout the whole song.
  • The choir from the piece was previously sampled on the pre-chorus of the unreleased demo "Anything For You".
• Rousing Speech:
  • "End of the Dream" and "Whisper" are all about facing your fears, following your heart and showing off a little bit what you can achieve.
  • "Imperfection" has this:
    We stand undefined, can't be drawn with a straight line. This will not be our ending! WE ARE ALIVE!
• Sanity Slippage Song: In "Tourniquet," you can hear the narrator losing their mind to panic and fear towards the middle to end of the song.
  • "Lose Control," "The Other Side," "Haunted," "Imaginary," and many many many more...
• Sarcasm Mode:
  • In "Everybody's Fool":
    Look, here she comes now, bow down and stare in wonder. Oh, how we love you...
  • "Lacrymosa" minus the middle 8, in some interpretations.
  • "Taking Over Me" can also be interpreted as such, vocally.
  • "If You Don't Mind". All of it.
  • "Weight of the World:"
    And oh, I know you don't believe in me
• Self-Backing Vocalist:
  • On practically every song, especially noticeable in "What You Want," "Bring Me to Life," "Missing," and "Haunted." Amy does self-backing One-Woman Wail in "Lose Control."
  • Averted with "Call Me When You're Sober" (which brings in her sisters as support) and in "Use My Voice" (which uses not only her sisters but a team of guest vocalists)
• Self-Empowerment Anthem: "What You Want," "End of the Dream," "Whisper," "Use My Voice".
• Self-Titled Album: Well, EP... AND album.
• Siamese Twin Songs: "Unraveling" and "Imaginary" in Synthesis.
• Sleepy Depressive: The narrator of "Imaginary" builds her "sleeping refuge," her own world in her head, to escape the horror of reality. The song mentions "alarm clock screaming monsters." And this:
  Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming
  Cannot cease for the fear of silent nights
  Oh, how I long for the deep sleep dreaming
  The goddess of imaginary light
• Soprano and Gravel: "Lies".
  • "Bring Me to Life" is Soprano and Rap just until Paul McCoy pulls out a type 1 Metal Scream near the end.
• Spiritual Successor: "Secret Door" has this vibe that it may be the follow up to "Good Enough."
• Spoken Word in Music: "Understanding" uses dialogue from the 1958 film Terror in the Haunted House.
• Stalker with a Crush: "Snow White Queen," "Surrender," "Anything for You," "Away from Me," "Haunted," "The Other Side," "Farther Away," and "Taking Over Me."
• Subdued Section: "Taking Over Me," "Sick," "Imaginary," "My Heart is Broken," and "The Other Side."
• Surprisingly Gentle Song: "My Immortal," "Hello" (Fallen), "Good Enough" (The Open Door), and "Swimming Home" (Evanescence) are these on their respective albums.
  • Also the initial demo of Disappear, back then posted with the caption "Perfect Rainy Sunday". It's very different from the version of Disappear in the album
  • The piano part for Made of Stone, posted with the title "Meanwhile in the Studio". It's added with the heavy elements in the final version of Made of Stone.
• Switching P.O.V.: "Snow White Queen" is an Obsession Song that switches between the stalker's and the stalkee's point of view.
• Take That!:
  • "Everybody's Fool" to fake artificially perfect people and certain pop stars. Years later, the song would find a new meaning regarding the projected life people post on social media.
  • "Call Me When You're Sober" to Lee's ex-boyfriend Shaun Morgan.
  • Some Evanescence fans are taking "What You Want," and possibly even the entire new album, to be this to bands such as Linkin Park, which have changed their style in newer albums to make themselves more marketable, and consequently alienate their original audience.
  • "New Way to Bleed" at critics of their music and their... Ahem... "Issues" with their recording company...
  • "Oceans," "The Change," and "Erase This" could be even at their ex-former band mates.
  • "Sick" is about the... Ahem... "Issues" they had with their recording company.
  • On the band's 2016 tour, Lee introduced a new song, "Take Cover," as being "dedicated to every person who ever tried to tear this band apart from the inside out."
• Take That, Audience!: In an affectionate "Don't put me up on a pedestal" sense '"Weight of the World" was Amy Lee's "Plea for perspective from the expectation of young fans." Admitting she does not have all the answers, does not want to be perfect and is not a doctor or therapist, and doesn't appreciate the pressure of being a role model. Just distancing herself from that sort of pressure somewhat.
• Winter Royal Lady: The stalker dubs their crush "Snow White Queen."
• Woman Scorned: "Call Me When You're Sober," "Lacrymosa," "The Last Song I'm Wasting on You," "Oceans," "Sick," "Made of Stone," and "If You Don't Mind."
• Xtreme Kool Letterz: The "y" in "Lacrymosa."
• Yandere: "Taking Over Me," "Away from Me," "The Other Side," "Surrender," and "Anything for You."
• You Are Not Alone: "Like You", "Imperfection", and to some degree "The Only One".

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Tropes found in their music videos:

• All Just a Dream: "Bring Me to Life."
• Death by Falling Over: Amy at the end of "Bring Me to Life," or so it seems.
• Deliberately Monochrome: "My Immortal."
• Dramatic Wind: "Bring Me to Life."
• Fairytale Motifs: "Call Me When You're Sober" features a coldly handsome young man with grey eyes, real wolves, and Amy Lee wearing a red hood.
• Game Face: Almost everyone other than the band shifts between normal and demonic-looking faces over the course of the Performance Video parts. And then there's Ben...
• Happy Rain: The end of "Good Enough".
• Lonely Piano Piece: "The In-Between" is this for the "Imperfection" video.
• Mind Screw: "Imperfection" has scenes that ooze with this.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands:
  • Amy seems to develop telekinesis around the 2:35 mark of "Call Me When You're Sober."
  • Also, in "What You Want," Amy jumps off the Brooklyn Bridge, and lands in a perfect crouch, even though she should be seriously or even critically injured, if not dead.
• Of Corsets Sexy: "Call Me When You're Sober."
  • Amy's "Going Under" top isn't a corset at first glance, but with so many belts around the bodice, it can qualify.
• Once a Season: Or rather Once an Album: Amy underwater:
  • Going Under and Everybody's Fool in Fallen.
  • Lithium and to some extent Good Enough in The Open Door.
  • What You Want in Evanescence.
  • Imperfection in Synthesis.
• The Ophelia: How many times has Amy drowned or symbolically is lost underwater, in her videos, usually after an emotional down turn, revelation... "Everybody's Fool," "Going Under," "Lithium," "What You Want,", "Good Enough", and "Imperfection".
• Performance Video:
  • "What You Want" is mostly this, with a few brief scenes of Amy running, Amy jumping, Amy meeting up with the rest of the band and walking into the ocean... You get the idea.
  • "Going Under" is almost entirely this. With demons.
• Rage Against the Reflection: "Everybody's Fool."
• Shower of Angst: "Everybody's Fool," again.
• Stepford Smiler: "Everybody's Fool," once more.
• Take My Hand!: "Bring Me to Life."

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Must be exhausting to lose your own game.