Evanescence - Lithium (Live on David Letterman's Show) HD
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"Lithium" is a song by American rock band Evanescence. It was released on January 8, 2007, as the second single from their second studio album, The Open Door. It was solely written by Amy Lee, and has no connection to the song of the same name by grunge band Nirvana, which several fans mistakenly thought before its release.
Amy Lee describes the song as a song "which embraces feeling over numbness." The song was inspired by her relationship with ex-boyfriend Shaun Morgan, lead vocalist of Seether. During an interview with VH1, Lee said, "I wrote the chorus on the guitar when I was about 16. I always thought it was a cool chorus, but I never used it for anything. I started playing it on the piano and the verses came out. I have a pile of pieces stowed away in my mind that maybe I'll use some day. In a way it's an old song, but not really. It grew up."
In another interview with MTV Italy, Lee said, "It's not literal, it's not literal about the drug for me, I've never taken lithium before. It's sort of a metaphor about numbness and happiness and sort of like, it's me looking at happiness in a negative way because I've always been, you know, kind of afraid to be happy. Like with the band and the art and everything else, it's always like I'm never letting myself break through into the happiness it seems like, because it's not cool or something. And describing happiness is lithium, it's like saying 'that's numbness, I won't be able to be an artist anymore if I'm happy', which is hilarious because that's just not true, I'm happy. So it's like this fight within the song of like 'do I do this and get out of here and get happy or do I wallow in it like I always do?' and it's cool because at the end of the song I say 'I'm going to let it go', like I am going to be happy."
The drug itself, lithium carbonate, is typically used as a mood stabilizer to prevent acute manic behavior patients with bipolar disorder suffer.
Lyrics:
Lithium - don't want to lock me up inside
Lithium - don't want to forget how it feels without
Lithium - I want to stay in love with my sorrow
Oh but God I want to let it go
Come to bed, don't make me sleep alone
Couldn't hide the emptiness - you let it show
Never wanted it to be so cold
Just didn't drink enough to say you love me
I can't hold on to me
Wonder what's wrong with me
Lithium - don't want to lock me up inside
Lithium - don't want to forget how it feels without
Lithium - I want to stay in love with my sorrow
Don't want to let it lay me down this time
Drown my will to fly
Here in the darkness I know myself
Can't break free until I let it go
Let me go
Darling, I forgive you after all
Anything is better than to be alone
And in the end I guess I had to fall
Always find my place among the ashes
I can't hold on to me
Wonder what's wrong with me
Lithium - don't want to lock me up inside
Lithium - don't want to forget how it feels without
Lithium - I want to stay in love with my sorrow
Oh but God I want to let it go
Enjoy!
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her voice is so beautiful and her live singing is almost the same as her voice in her official songs, and you don't meet a lot of singers like that nowadays
I never realized how many piercings she has until I saw this. She's one of the few people that can have so many piercings and still maintain that natural sense of beauty in my opinion :)
@Barbara-qw9dh
3 жыл бұрын
She just had one piercing on the eyebrows lol the rest is common earings
@crust5909
11 ай бұрын
she once said in an interview "i have more piercings than you know of" 😅
What a beautiful woman...
Amy is so bad-ass !! No one in contemporary music compares. It's Sarah Brightman singing rock music as I see it.
So much underrated song
3:10 gave me chills
The lovely Amy… she starts off a tad pitchy, but soon enough those vocal cords warmed up and her voice was purring like a 12 cylinder, turbo charged Ferrari. Wonderful!
en esta actuación su voz si se le escucha perfecta al igual que la musica creo que es la mejor actuación de esta cancion
2:22 i can't believe she can sing that part exactly like the album, holy shit.
@nosecandie3890
3 күн бұрын
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@crust5909
3 күн бұрын
@@nosecandie3890 you clown i've specifically wrote in that post: "can sing exactly like the album version". You would be surprised at how many vocalists suck in live performances compared to their album version. That is if you actually understand anything about music 🤦♂
@crust5909
3 күн бұрын
@@nosecandie3890 Fool i've specifically wrote in the post "exactly like the album version". You would be surprised at the amount of vocalists who suck in live performances compared to their album recording.
her gorgeous voice. really want to be like amy lee.
happy bithday amy im missing you on radio stations
i like her voice!!!! go amy lee!!!! she's my angel!!!
perfect !!!!!
Good god I love her! Voice like no other.
The best As usual ^^
Her voice
КРАСОТКА!!!!
Se Ve Tan Hermosa!!!!
love you amy !!!
I relize what a beutuful woman
When I play the piano and I had a lot of practice on that particular song I don't look down too
I like that song heh
Fun fact: she still looks and sounds like a million bucks to this very day.
I like how he says thank ya gentleman! And the bassists nods and winks as if to to say no problem bro. I make millions and I'm just hitting the same note very slowly. Why do we even have two guitarists? Also I'm shitfaced bro.
@anakulic4143
7 жыл бұрын
lol
Letterman sapbeeeeeeeeeeeee !!!! :D
I WANT AN AMY LEE FOR MYSELF
How could someone possibly dislike this?? :( haha
Eu sou Índia o dia eu vou chegar loje
She looks many times donw to the see the keys, even if a person plays for years, they keep looking to their instruments to not commit errors, and Amy Lee doens't pretend, she plays, search for videos of her playing alone at home, live festivals, unplugged's, etc. If u don't know what u are talking about, and u came here to talk shit , do us a favor, and shut up. Thank You, and have a nice day ;)
just to mention that... terry has been already the co-writer on that album.
Most musicians do an occasional glance, as they do sometimes forget the a words.Night after Night after Night,
she's cute
If I could have any wife... guess who
1:33 - 1:42... Are you actually blind?
Nope, it's 2 piercings. Pause at around 0:38 , it's pretty easy to see.
i am like does she fart when she raises her pitch?
2 piercings in her ear? The other thing is a ear plug.
meh
okay so since she is not looking down she does not know how to play the piano right that's the reasoning behind not knowing how to play the piano.
@thedarkling760
Жыл бұрын
I can play this song on the piano and I can assure you she's actually playing.
@cayde-6.0
10 ай бұрын
she is a very good pianist...like her or not she can play better than anyone hating on her! I can't recall any of your work...also can you type without looking? no? that's what I thought...please sit down!
@Pango5697
5 күн бұрын
She is a classically trained pianist.
She is pretending to play the piano... Bad...
@cayde-6.0
10 ай бұрын
lmao jealous that you can't play? let's see what you can do! impress me....
@ptpt3107
9 ай бұрын
@@cayde-6.0the comment was 11 years ago but I agree with you