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Evanescence: Origin

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s


Label: Bigwig Enterprises
Released: 2000.04.11
Time:
 46:27
Category: Gothic Rock
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: ****...... (4/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.evanescence.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2010.04.13
Price in €: 2,00





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[1] Origin [intro] (Lee/Moody) - 0:35
[2] Whisper [Origin version] (Lee/Moody) - 3:56
[3] Imaginary [Origin version] (Lee/Moody) - 3:31
[4] My Immortal [Origin version] (Lee/Moody) - 4:26
[5] Where Will You Go [Origin version] (Lee/Moody) - 3:47
[6] Field of Innocence (Lee/Moody/Hodges) - 5:13
[7] Even in Death (Lee/Moody/Hodges) - 4:09
[8] Anywhere (Lee/Moody/Hodges) - 6:03
[9] Lies (Lee/Moody) - 3:49
[10] Away from Me (Lee/Moody/Hodges) - 3:30
[11] Eternal [Instrumental] (Moody/Hodges) - 7:22

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Amy Lee - Vocals
Ben Moody - Guitar, Bass, Drums
David Hodges - Piano, Keyboard, Vocals

William James Boyd Esquire, III - Bass on "Away From Me"
Bruce Fitzhugh (Living Sacrifice) & Stephanie Pierce - Vocals on "Lies"
Suvi Petrajajrvi - female vocal ensemble on "Field of Innocence"
Sara Moore - female vocal ensemble on "Field of Innocence"
Catherine Harris - female vocal ensemble on "Field of Innocence"
Samantha Strong - female vocal ensemble on "Field of Innocence"

Ben Moody - Engineer, Photography
Brad Caviness - Executive Producer
Rocky Gray - Artwork
Amy Bennett - Photography
Adrian James - Package Design

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2000 CD Bigwig 2

Recorded and mixed at Sound Asleep Studios
Mastered by Ardent Studios, Memphis, tn
Manufactured & distributed by Bigwig Enterprises - bigwigenterprises.com
Recording technology by Soundforge - sonicfoundry.com
Package Design by Adrian James - adrian@dasgift.com
In affiliation with monstorgraphix.com - info@monstorgraphix.com

The Evanescence debut album Origin on the independent Bigwig Enterprises label was limited to 2500 copies due to legal reasons when the band signed to Wind-Up Records. Songs on later releases with the same titles as below are re-recordings of the originals on this album. This album initially contained a 12th track called "Listen To The Rain", but that track was removed from the album at the last moment before release, supposedly because the band was unsatisfied with the choir that sung the song.



Origin is the first full length CD released by American  rock  band Evanescence on the Bigwig Enterprises label. Although it is occasionally considered to be Evanescence's first album, lead singer Amy Lee has explicitly said that she doesn't consider it to be an album but rather a "dressed up" demo CD. Released in 2000, Origin was only sold to concert audiences in their hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas and on the Bigwig Enterprises website. Only 2,500 discs were printed, but due to the band's increased popularity, significant numbers of pirated copies have been produced and sold (sometimes in the form of a "Russian Re-Release" with 19 tracks). These fakes make an actual copy less likely to be found. Members of Evanescence have stated that they prefer their fans to copy/download the CD rather than buy it. Evanescence re-recorded three songs from this CD for their début album Fallen. While "Whisper" and "My Immortal" are fundamentally the same on both discs, "Imaginary" exhibited a major change in structure between Origin and Fallen. In addition to these three songs, the band continued to play "Even in Death" in concert until March 2004.

Official versions of the CD have a hidden track prior to the start of the CD containing an outtake from the song "Anywhere" that can be accessed in some CD players through the use of the 'previous track' button at the beginning of the first track. This outtake features David Hodges doing vocal ad-libs into his high range. He then says to the person controlling the recording, "You're not saving that." This is followed by Ben Moody saying, "There's a lot of prejudice against the undead," which is a reference to a line in the motion picture My Boyfriend's Back.

Two songs, "Listen to the Rain" (a song Amy Lee wrote for her high school graduation which included her school's choir) and "Demise", were cut from the album. The band originally had "Eternal" as track 11, "Listen to the Rain" as track 12, and "Demise" as track 13. However, it was decided to merge "Eternal" and "Demise" and cut "Listen to the Rain" from the album. "Demise" became the outro of "Eternal". Two other songs that didn't make it onto the CD were "Catherine", a song written by Lee and Ben Moody and played live to only a handful of people, as well as "Spanish".

Various tracks on Origin are themselves notable, and some have relations with other tracks, albums and even other artists. "My Immortal" is nearly identical to the version on the album Fallen, minus strings. "Even in Death" uses an intro sample from the White Zombie song "Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls", and its outro consists of a sample of the film The Crow, featuring words spoken by Rochelle Davis' character Sarah. "Anywhere" features an ending that is a simpler version of the outro on "Where Will You Go". "Lies" has been remade into another version with different lyrics, but the first chorus intro is used in bo Album artth versions. The track "Origin" has been incorporated into demo versions of the songs "Haunted" and "Whisper", the latter of which appears on the Automata 3.0 magazine CD. "Origin" also has two lines from a film called Terror in the Haunted House. The track "Eternal" has been through several revisions. The final version begins with an orchestrated rock tune, transitions into a thunderstorm and piano solo, and finishes with a sixteen note repeating melody. This ending was once intended to be the album's twelfth track, titled "Demise", but was eventually combined with "Eternal" to form one long piece. At one point, however, the final track was an even longer fourteen minute compilation of the tracks "Away From Me", "Eternal", "Listen to the Rain" and "Demise".

The CD's front cover features a black and red background with various iterations of the word "Evanescence" printed across it, both forward and backward. Barely visible amongst the background is a woman. The back features the same color scheme with three stacked images depicting different angles of the "Angel of Grief" sculpture, an image of which is also featured on the Evanescence EP CD cover.
 

 L y r i c s


Origin

Instrumentals


Whisper

Catch me as I fall
Say you're here, and it's all over now
Speaking to the atmosphere
No one's here, and I fall into myself
This truth drives me into madness
I know I can stop the pain, if I will it all away
If i will it all away...

Don't turn away
(Don't give in to the pain)
Don't try to hide
(Though they're screaming your name)
Don't close your eyes
(God knows what lies behind them)
Don't turn out the light
(Never sleep, never die...)

I'm frightened by what I see
But somehow, I know that there's much more to come
Immobilized by my fear
And soon to be blinded by tears
I can stop the pain, if I will it all away
If I will it all away...

Don't turn away
(Don't give in to the pain)
Don't try to hide
(Though they're screaming your name)
Don't close your eyes
(God knows what lies behind them)
Don't turn out the light
(Never sleep, never die...)

Fallen angels at my feet
Whispered voices at my ear
Death before my eyes
Lying next to me, I fear
She beckons me, shall I give in?
Upon my end, shall I begin?
Forsaking all I've fallen for, I rise to meet the end

oh oh oh oooh oh
Don't turn away
(Don't give in to the pain)
Don't try to hide
(Though they're screaming your name)
Don't close your eyes
(God knows what lies behind them)
Don't turn out the light
(Never sleep, never die...)

Don't turn away
(Don't give in to the pain)
Don't try to hide
(Though they're screaming your name)
Don't close your eyes
(God knows what lies behind them)
Don't turn out the light
(Never sleep, never die...)

Don't turn away
(Don't give in to the pain)
Don't try to hide
(Though they're screaming your name)
Don't close your eyes
(God knows what lies behind them)
Don't turn out the light...
(Never sleep, never die...)

Servatis a periculum...
Servatis a maleficum...
(repeat and fade out)


Imaginary

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 there falling
Tell a story

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

Don't say I'm not in touch
With this rampant chaos
Your reality
I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge
The nightmare i built my own world to escape

Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming
Cannot stop fir the fear of silent nights
Oh how i long for the deep sleep dreaming
The goddess of imaginary light


My Immortal

I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
Because your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

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've held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me

You used to captivate me
by your resonating light
But now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away all the sanity in me

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

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've held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me

I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

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've held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me


Where Will You Go

You're so important for anyone
You play the role of all you long to be
But I, I know who you really are
You're the one who cries when you're alone

[Chorus]
But where will you go
(where will you go)
With no one left to save you from yourself
You can't escape
You can't escape

You think that I can't see right through your eyes
Scared to death to face reality
No one seems to hear your hidden cries
You're left to face yourself alone

[Chorus]
But where will you go
(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 abandon everyone
You can't escape
You don't want to escape

I am 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 in a whisper
But you can't even hear me screaming

[Chorus]
Where will you go
(where will you)
With no one left to save you from yourself oh
You can't escape the truth

I realize you're afraid
But 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

yah.yah x5


Field Of Innocence

I still remember the world
From the eyes of a child
Slowly those feelings
Were clouded by what I know now

Where has my heart gone?
An uneven trade for the real world
Oh I, I want to go back to
Believing in everything and knowing nothing at all

I still remember the sun
Always warm on my back
Somehow,it seems colder now

Where has my heart gone?
Trapped in the eyes of a stranger
Oh I, I want to go back to
Believing in everything

[Latin hymn:]
Iesu, Rex admirabilis
et triumphator nobilis,
dulcedo ineffabilis,
totus desiderabilis.

[Translation:]
O Jesus, King most wonderful
the conqueror renowned
the sweetness most ineffable,
entirely desirable.

[Man:]
"As the years pass by
Before my face,
As wars rage before me,
Finding myself
In these last days of existence,
This parasite inside me,
I forced it out.
In the darkness of the storm
Lies an evil,
But it's me."

Where has my heart gone?
An uneven trade for the real world
Oh I, I want to go back to
Believing in everything

Oh where, where has my heart gone
Trapped in the eyes of a stranger
Oh I, I want to go back to
Believing in everything

I still remember.


Even In Death

Give me a reason to believe that you're gone
I see your shadow so I know they're all wrong
Moonlight on the soft brown earth
It leads me to where you lay
They took you away from me but now I'm taking you home

I will stay forever here with you
My love
The softly spoken words you gave me
Even in death our love goes on

Some say I'm crazy for my love,oh my love
(my love)
But no bonds can hold me from your side,oh my love
They don't know you can't leave me
They don't hear you singing to me

I will stay forever here with you
My love
The softly spoken words you gave me
Even in death our love goes on
And I can't love you anymore than I do
(ohhhh,oh,oh)
(guitar solo)

I will stay forever here with you
My love
The softly spoken words you gave me
Even in death our love goes on
And I can't love you anymore than I do
(people die,but real love is forever)


Anywhere

Dear my love, haven't you wanted to be with me, and
Dear my love, haven't you longed to be free
I can't keep pretending that I don't even know you
And at sweet night, you are my own
Take my hand

We're leaving here tonight
There's no need to tell anyone
They'd only hold us down
So by the morning's light
We'll be half way to anywhere
Where love is more than just your name

I have dreamt of a place for you and I
No one knows who we are there
All I want is to give my life only to you
I've dreamt so long I cannot dream anymore
Let's run away, I'll take you there

We're leaving here tonight
There's no need to tell anyone
They'd only hold us down
So by the morning's light
We'll be halfway to anywhere
Where no one needs a reason

Forget this life
Come with me
Don't look back you're safe now
Unlock your heart
Drop your guard
No one's left to stop you
Forget this life
Come with me
Don't look back you're safe now
Unlock your heart
Drop your guard
No one's left to stop you now

We're leaving here tonight
There's no need to tell anyone
They'd only hold us down
So by the morning's light
We'll be half way to anywhere
Where love is more than just your name


Lies

Ohhh oohh oohh oohh ahh ohh ohh oohh oohh oohh ohh ohh oooh ohh(x3)
: Deep Heavy Speaking :
Bound at every limb by my shackles of fear
Sealed with lies through so many tears
Lost from within and persuing the end
I fight for the chance to be lied to again

You will never be strong enough
You will never be good enough
You were never conceived in love
You will not rise above

They'll never see
I'll never be
I struggle on and on to feed this hunger
Burning deep inside of me

: Deep Heavy Speaking :
But through my tears breaks a blinding light
Birthing a dawn to this endless night
Arms outstretched, awaiting me
An open embrace upon a bleeding tree

Rest in me and I'll comfort you
I have lived and I died for you
Abide in me and I vow to you
I will never forsake you

They'll never see
I'll never be
I struggle on and on to feed this hunger
Burning deep inside of me

They'll never see
I'll never be
I struggle on and on to feed this hunger
Burning deep inside of me

Ohhh oohh ahh oohh ahh ohh (x4)

:Heavy Scream:
Rest in me and I'll comfort you
I have lived yet died for you
Abide in me and I vow to you
I will never forsake you

They'll never see
I'll never be
I struggle on and on to feed this hunger
Burning deep inside of me

Ohhh oohh ahh oohh ahh ohh (x4)
fade out


Away From Me

I hold my breath as this life starts to take its toll
I hide behind a smile as this perfect plan unfolds
But oh, God, I feel I've been lied to
Lost all faith in the things I have achieved, and I-

I've woken now to find myself
In the shadows of all the lie I've created
I'm longing to be lost in you
(away from this place I have made)
Won't you take me away from me

Crawling through this world as disease flows through my veins
I look into myself, but my own heart has been changed
I can't go on like this, I loathe all I've become

I've woken now to find myself
In the shadows of all the lie I've created
I'm longing to be lost in you
(away from this place I have made)
Won't you take me away from me

Lost in a dying world I reach for something more
I have grown so weary of this lie I live

I've woken now to find myself
In the shadows of all the lie I've created
I'm longing to be lost in you, I-
Have woken now to find myself
I'm lost in shadows of my own
I'm longing to be lost in you
Away from me
From me (x7)


Eternal

Instrumental

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