Evanescence's Amy Lee has revealed who the band's breakout single “Bring Me To Life” was written about. She told Sonic Seducer that she wrote the song about her husband before they were married. She explained, “There was this moment, I was in a tough place and in a bad relationship, and my husband now, Josh, at the time was just a friend and a person that I barely knew. It was maybe the third or fourth time we'd ever met and we went in to go grab a seat at a restaurant while our friends parked the car. We sat across from each other, and he looked at me and he just said, 'So, are you happy?'” She continued, “It's amazing that that became the song, the first song that broke us on to the scene and made everyone hear of us, because it was about something so personal that I was recognizing in my life.”
She continued, “And it took me so off guard, and I just felt like it pierced my heart, because I felt like I had been pretending really well, and it was, like, somebody could see through me. And then that whole first verse came out of it — 'How can you see into my eyes, like open doors.' It really made me feel and recognize the sense of yearning that I had to get to a better place and it really kind of set me out on a journey. It's amazing that that became the song, the first song that broke us on to the scene and made everyone hear of us, because it was about something so personal that I was recognizing in my life.”
