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Evanescence EP Lyrics

Where Will You Go
Solitude
Imaginary
Exodus
So Close
Understanding
The End

** All songs written by Amy Lee and Ben Moody except "So Close."
"So Close" written by Ben Moody, William Boyd, and Matt Outlaw.

Where Will You Go

You're too important for anyone
There's something wrong with everything you see
But I, I know who you really are
You're the one who cries when you're alone

Where will you go
With no one left to save you from yourself
You can't escape
You don't want to escape

How ever did you manage to push away
From every living thing you've come across
So afraid that anyone will hate you
You pretend you hate them first

Where will you go
With no one left to save you from yourself
You can't escape the truth
I realize you're afraid
But you can't refrain from everything
You can't escape
You can't escape

I'm so sick of speaking words that no one understands
Is it clear enough that you can't live your whole life all alone
I can hear you when you whisper
But you can't even hear me screaming

And where will you go
With no one left to save you from yourself
You can't escape the truth
I realize you're afraid
You can't reject the whole world
You can't escape
You won't escape
You can't escape
You don't want to escape

Solitude

2, 3, 4

How many times have you told me you love her
As many times as I wanted to tell you true
How long have I stood here beside you
I lived through you, you looked through me

Oo, solitude
Still with me is only you
Oo, solitude
I can't stay away from you

How many times have I done this to myself
How long will it take before I see
When will this hole in my heart be mended
Who now is left alone but me

Oo, solitude
Forever me and forever you
Oo, solitude
Only you, only true

Everyone leaves me stranded
Forgotten, abandoned, left behind
I can't stay here another night

Your secret admirer
Who could it be
Oo, can't you see
All along it was me
How can you be so blind
As to see right through me

Solitude
Still with me is only you
Oo, solitude
I can't stay away from you

Solitude
Forever me and forever you
Oo, solitude
Only you, only true

Imaginary

Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming
Cannot cease for the fear of silent night
Oh, how I long for the deep sleep dreaming
The goddess of imaginary light

In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullabies
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me

I linger in the doorway
Of alarm clocks screaming monsters
Calling my name
Let me stay
Where the wind will whisper to me
Where the raindrops as they're falling tell a story

If you need to leave the world you live in
Lay your head down and stay a while
Though you may not remember dreaming
Something waits for you to breathe again

Exodus

My black backpack's stuffed with broken dreams
Twenty bucks should get me through the week
Never said a word of discontentment
Thought it a thousand times but now
I'm leaving home

Here in the shadows
I'm safe, I'm free
I've nowhere else to go
But I cannot stay where I don't belong

Two months pass by and it's getting cold
I know I'm not lost, I'm just alone
But I won't cry, I won't give up, I can't go back now
Waking up is knowing who you really are

Here in the shadows
I'm safe, I'm free
I've nowhere else to go
But I cannot stay where I don't belong

Here in the shadows
I'm safe, I'm free
I've nowhere else to go
But I cannot stay where I don't belong

In the shadows
I'm safe, I'm free
I've nowhere else to go
But I cannot stay here

Oh, show me the shadow where true meaning lies
So much more dismay in empty eyes

So Close

I've spent so much time
Throwing rocks at your window
That I never even knocked on the front door

I walk by statues
Never even made one chip
But if I can leave a mark
On the monument of the heart
I just might lay myself down
For a little more than I had the last day
The last day
The last day

Wait a time
To spare these lies we tell ourselves
These days have come and gone
But this time is sweeter than honey

Understanding

You hold the answer deep within your own mind. Consciously, you've forgotten it. That's the way the human mind works.
Whenever something is too unpleasant, too shameful for us to entertain, we reject it, we erase it from our memory.
But the imprint is always there.

We wash it all away
We wish it all away
We hope it all away
Can't cry it all away

The pain that grips you
The fear that binds you
Releases life in me

In our mutual shame
We hide our eyes
To blind them from the truth
That finds a way from who we are

Please don't be afraid
When the darkness fades away
The dawn will break the silence
Screaming at our hearts

My love for you still grows
This I do for you
For I try to fight the truth
My final time

We're supposed to try to be real. When we feel alone, we are not together, and that is real.

Can't wash it all away
Can't wish it all away
Can't cry it all away
Can't scratch it all away

Lying beside you
Listening to you breathe
The light that flows inside of you
Burns inside of me

Hold and speak to me
Of love without a sound
Tell me you will live through this
And I will die for you

Cast me not away
Say you'll be with me
For I know I cannot bear it all alone

You're not alone, honey.
Never, never.

Can't fight it all away
Can't hope it all away
Can't scream it all away
It just won't fade away

Can't wash it all away
Can't wish it all away
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Can't cry it all away
Can't scratch it all away
Yeah

Can't fight it all away
Can't hope it all away
Can't scream it all away
Oh, will it all away
Oh, will it all away
Yeah, yeah

But the imprint is always there.
Nothing is ever really forgotten.

Because I'm dying
Because I'm dying too...