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Evanescence

Going Under

Release date: 4th March 2003

From Fallen
Track 1
3:35
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About This Track

Amy Lee, Ben Moody and David Hodges wrote this account of emotional suffocation within a relationship, one that finds Lee's voice cracking under the weight of unreciprocated effort. The song moves through cycles of drowning and gasping for air, each repetition of the chorus a small act of resistance. Lee sings of fifty thousand tears, of screaming and bleeding for someone who will not listen, before pivoting to a harder stance: she will save herself, she will not be broken again. The production sits somewhere between nu-metal heaviness and alternative rock restraint, letting the vocal melody carry the emotional centre. Lyrically, the song trades in the language of submersion and suffocation, blurring truth and lies until the narrator cannot trust her own mind. What emerges is not catharsis but a quiet, determined break. The song was the last to be written for the album, and it became the second single, a choice that proved prescient: it remains one of the most recognisable tracks from Evanescence's debut.

"Going Under" is a single by Evanescence, from the album Fallen, released 4th March 2003. The track is 3:35 long. It's filed under Hard Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 6 articles about Evanescence.

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Evanescence

Evanescence

Lyrics

Going Under

Now I will tell you what I've done for you
50 thousand tears I've cried
Screaming, deceiving, and bleeding for you
And you still won't hear me (going under)

Don't want your hand this time, I'll save myself
Maybe I'll wake up for once (wake up for once)
Not tormented, daily defeated by you
Just when I thought I'd reached the bottom

I'm dying again

I'm going under (going under)
Drowning in you (drowning in you)
I'm falling forever (falling forever)
I've got to break through
I'm going under

Blurring and stirring the truth and the lies
(So I don't know what's real)
So I don't know what's real and what's not
(Don't know what's real and what's not)
Always confusing the thoughts in my head (ooh)
So I can't trust myself anymore

I'm dying again

I'm going under (going under)
Drowning in you (drowning in you)
I'm falling forever (falling forever)
I've got to break through
I'm...

So go on and scream
Scream at me, I'm so far away (so far away)
I won't be broken again (again)
I've got to breathe, I can't keep going under

I'm dying again

I'm going under (going under)
Drowning in you (drowning in you)
I'm falling forever (falling forever)
I've got to break through
I'm going under (going under)

Going under (drowning in you)
I'm going under

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Track details

From Fallen

3:352003Single
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Album
Fallen
Fallen
Evanescence
4th March 2003
Track number
1
Release year
2003
  1. 1Going Under
    3:35
  2. 2Bring Me to Life
    3:56
  3. 3Everybody's Fool
    3:16
  4. 4My Immortal
    4:23

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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
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