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Evanescence

Surrender

Release date: 2001

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About This Track

‘Surrender’ by Evanescence is a 2001 track that treats love as an argument about control and commitment, leaning into the speaker’s insistence that the other person cannot simply leave. The lyrics move through a series of rhetorical challenges, with lines that frame devotion as possession, culminating in the direct plea to “Surrender” as a closing demand. The tone is urgent and possessive, and the perspective stays locked on the same claustrophobic conclusion: remaining together is presented as non-negotiable, while any attempt to escape is dismissed.

"Surrender" is a track by Evanescence, released 2001. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 4 articles about Evanescence.

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Evanescence

Evanescence

Lyrics

Surrender

Is this real enough for you

You were so confused

Now that you've decided to stay

We'll remain together

You can't abandon me

You belong to me

Breathe in and take my life in you

No longer myself only you

There's no escaping me, my love

Surrender

Darling, there's no sense in running

You know I will find you

Everything is perfect now

We can live forever

You can't abandon me

You belong to me

Breathe in and take my life in you

No longer myself only you

There's no escaping me, my love

Surrender

Hands up slowly

Give into...

Breathe in and take my life in you

No longer myself only you

There's no escaping me, my love

Surrender

Surrender

Surrender

Surrender

You will surrender to me

There's no escaping from me

I know you want her to be

You must surrender to me

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Surrender

2001
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