The album's opening track, ' Going Under', was initially planned to be the first single, but the after the release of the Daredevil soundtrack, it was changed to the album's second single. 'Bring Me to Life' was released on February 7, 2003, it was the first single from the band's debut album, Fallen. One day someone said something that made my heart race for a second and I realized that for months I'd been numb, just going through the motions of life.' During an interview with Blender, Lee said that the person she had the conversation with that inspired her to write 'Bring Me to Life' was her then-acquaintance and future husband, Josh Hartzler, whom she married in 2007. It's about waking up to all the things you've been missing for so long. But he is a sociology major.' Lee said in a VH1 interview: 'Open-mindedness. 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. We were waiting for everyone else to show up, and we went into a restaurant and got a table.

So then I had spoken maybe 10 or 15 words to this guy, who was a friend of a friend. I was being completely abused and I was trying to cover it up I wouldn’t even admit it to myself. I was in a relationship and I was completely unhappy. During an interview from a tour stop in Tulsa she told The Boston Phoenix: 'I was inspired to write it when someone said something to me - I didn’t know him, and I thought he might be clairvoyant. 6.2 Australia/US/Europe- Second pressingĪccording to Amy Lee, the song was inspired by several things, the first being an incident at a restaurant.

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