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Bring Me To Life, 2003
I was in a really dark place when I wrote that.
Josh, my husband now, was visiting us.
He was a friend I didnt really know very well.
We went into a restaurant, he sat down across from me and goes, Are you happy?
My heart sank into my stomach, and I was just so not ready to talk about it.
I played it down, but I instantly was like, How does this person see into my eyes?
How does he know what Im feeling?
We rented a place in Florida near the water and just stayed there for months.
I was playing around with this song, and he could hear it from the other room.
He was working on a heavy riff, not like what I was doing at all.
I was like, Would it be super weird if these two things mashed up?
I love this song because it has this fun spirit that was new for us as a band.
you might still be heavy with a smile on your face.
Everybodys Fool, 2004
I was writing with the voice of an angsty teenager.
Its about my frustration with fakeness.
It was the late 90s and early 00s, when all these bubblegum pop acts were super popular.
I had young siblings, junior high and younger, who looked up to them at the time.
It sickened me because I felt like these pop acts were put together like products.
I wanted to say, Hey, youre not real!
I wanted to feel something real.
Even if its not perfect, its coming from someones heart, and thats more valuable.
Its definitely one of those personal, hard moments, when beauty is born out of pain.
It feels like redemption.
