How has Amy inspired/helped you?

[AmyHill06]

Hey my name is Amy Hill and im 19 and i was just diagnosed with severe depression and during the time i was crying and depressed i listen to amy and things seem to become lighter for me. I did this thread on EVFanClub message board and i got a lot of responses. I wanted to do this on here because some fans cant get on the fan club or whatever reason so i wanted to get to know other fans too. I think this is a good way to share stories and get to know each other and we share that one thing in common Evanescence! I hope you will share your story and i hope that amy could read these :) this is a chance for you to tell amy your story that you may would have wanted to tell her.

[SunriseDream]

In my worst nights waiting for Ev albums has been my best aim and Ev songs have taken me away and helped me get my pressure and stress and also stupid self-pity out.

And Amy is a great role model, too. I've takes a couple leaves out of her book and I have some better attitudes now. My attitudes were just extra negative and they still kind of are that. But now I know that if I want to change things for myself, I really need to change them or the way I see them and not just sit and wait for things to get even worse. I know more of me, both positive and negative things, now that the songs have made me think of what I want to be and what I don't want to be. Ev music has totally changed me.

[latchmie]

she let me know I am not the only one, because for a long time I felt really alone

[SomethingIsMissing]

Well actually, I have always wanted to be a singer but I never tried to get into singing because my goal always seemed so far away. I've been an Ev fan for about 2 and a half months now and after I got my ABH dvd, I've been inspired to try and get into music! Thats why I sing to Ev songs every single day to try and improve my high notes!! THANK YOU AMY!!

[LuckyStar]

I love the music because I can relate to it. It's made me realize that I'm not the only one who feels alone or upset or whatever. I've had family problems since right before I started high school, and my mom passed away the summer before my senior year. I was able to take comfort in Fallen and in songs from Origin, and now The Open Door is perfect because I'm also at the 'hey look, I'm stronger' stage in my life. I love the songs because they reflect how I've felt at one point or another, and helped me realize different things about myself, which essentially helped me grow. And the music has helped me write. I don't anymore, but I did when I was upset, which helped me deal with everything that was going on.

So yeah, thanks to the band for helping not feel completely lost in life.

[Daniel_b38]

She made me play the piano! She's so inspiring. Writing songs from the age of 14, that's incredible.
And I've shown great interest for classical music lately.

[Scarla]

waiting for the open door kept me sane because it gave me a reason when i was really deppressed some nights i would just lay in bed listning to fallen and be thinking if i can just keep going till the open door comes out il be fine ,even when i knew i was lying to myself .Tod was like a symbol of hope to me. Amys made me realise that i need to change and not let people walk all over me i deffinantly (sp?) have a more positive attitude now and shes inspired me to write more . Evanescence especily amy has saved my life

[fallen_angel]

evanescence's music covers so many issues i can relate to, and i find that when i play any ev song, it just makes everything seem a little brighter. Amy has one of those voices that uplift you when you are feeling down, and her lyrics make you think. Amy and the boys have helped me through many struggles and many long nights awake. Some have made me cry and some have made me smile, but all have touched me...

[JamesMcFenlon]

Well when fallen came out I was only like 14 or so,I was quite derpressed back then and fallen helped me trough it.Teh day I 1st heard fallen was also the day relezied I wanted to be a singer!

[Shari]

Well, I used to be bullied a lot, I guess all over primary school a bit, in 7th and 8th grade a LOT. Then I listened Ev, and I got to listen more bands and all, and I changed quite a bit. I got social skill training, so actually Ev kind of set things in motion wich could not be stopped (I think such a quote had been said in a few movies, no? :/ ), I changed so damn much in one year, it's unbelieveble. The bullying stopped. And some of Amy's quotes got me to think a lot in a different way when I had a down time a few months ago. In time, I started to feel better.
I feel better when I listen to the music, and I can relate to quite some songs. It's as if there is always someone willing to listen, even though they're not here. But the music will "listen" ^^

[Yumi Yan]

ammmmm... well her music change me a bit..I like to listen to ev songs when I'm drowind or creating something..
when I turn on one of the ev cd's, while I listen them I feel some kind of force...am..I fell more trust in myself..it looks like all strength from song somehow appears in me...*huh?*..it's really strange but I feel that..

[EternalWanderer]

Amy's lyrics, Evanescence songs are so powerful, so emotional, it's also a way for you to escape your body and understand you're not the only one having deep problems, there are some others like you, and it's really a way for me to release my fears, my sadness and grief. But I also relate to the 'happy' songs, somehow I manage to express my feelings through the lyrics and melody =)

[Singularis]

What has Amy Lee given me?

1/ Beautiful music; but that goes without saying.

2/ She has changed my outlook on life with regards to myself; she made me to see that I was not the only angsty, depressed with my life, person out there. She gave me hope through her music, and a kind of will to help others. It is a kind of payment of respect in a way. She helps others withe very line of any of her songs she sings, I just wish I had that power. Anyway she made me more aware of others and gave me the compassion that I have now indirectly.

3/ The final point is she renewed my faith in mankind. She reminded me that despite the wars, the murders, there are still pinnacles of light even in the darkest areas. She renewed my fiaht in other people's compassion and taught me how to not judge others because they are angsty or depressed

To me she is a god send and a revolution.

xXLawXx

[Clayton]

Thanks to Amy I'm a much more confident person with much more guts.

before I used to be all silent and the outsider. I'm still am, but now I'm kinda that because I choose to be it. Before I used to be afraid when people were looking at me, and they were judging me.

And now I'm like: screw ya'll I look good...
just like Amy says.
I don't care what people thing of me or say about me...

Now I would also go up and just sing out loud ina crwod, before I would never do that!

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her music made me also more creative in every way... when I'm making graphics, when i wrote poetry, writting lyrics, drawing everything!
I'm not the same person I was before EV came in my life... I'm much better now!

EDIT: that doesn't mean my life is all roses and moonlight... hell no... but EV's music helps me get through it!

[Evan-Escence]

Amy and Evanescence helped me during a very low point in my life. I first heard Bring me to Life and thought wow this is amazing. Bought the album and after studying the lyrics realised how much the lyrics mirror our feelings and emotions.

There is hope for everyone no matter what you go through. Even the lowest times in our life we must realise and know that things can change for the better at any time. And finding someone or a group of people who go through what you go through, whom you can talk to and share your feelings can make you feel better.

ALWAYS BE POSITIVE, ALWAYS SMILE, AND REMEMBER MOST IMPORTANTLY, THERE IS ALWAYS SOMEONE OUT THERE WHO CAN HELP AND UNDERSTAND AND SUPPORT YOU. :)

[Ayria]

I'm not trying to come off as the "OMFG I'm so self-righteous person!" but I'm getting sick of a lot of "OMFG AMEZ IS TEH BESTEST WHO'S TEH GUYS?!" comments.

I'd like to point out that Amy is NOT the only member of the band. Without John, Terry, Rocky, and Will there wouldn't be an Evanescence. Amy writes the lyrics and sings, but they're the ones who put music to her words and work their butts off doing so.

[Evan-Escence]

I'm not trying to come off as the "OMFG I'm so self-righteous person!" but I'm getting sick of a lot of "OMFG AMEZ IS TEH BESTEST WHO'S TEH GUYS?!" comments.

I'd like to point out that Amy is NOT the only member of the band. Without John, Terry, Rocky, and Will there wouldn't be an Evanescence. Amy writes the lyrics and sings, but they're the ones who put music to her words and work their butts off doing so.

Thats very true, a band isn't a band with only one member. But I think its true of any band, the lead singer almost always takes the limelight. I think its this 'anyone can play a guitar or bang a drum, not everyone can sing so good' mentality. I know Amy would give as much credit to everyone else as take it all herself and its only fair that credit goes to all of them as a whole.

Your all stars in our eyes, all part of what makes Evanescence so very special. :)

[la.cry.mosa]

She definitely has said everything that I as a writer wish I could have penned at the moment I was feeling it, I guess she just has such a good idea of how to poetically express that emotion, and though I'd like to say I do too, she just is sooo much better at it haha I have a lot to learn. Fallen really came into my life at a time where, like Amy, but in different ways, I felt trapped and manipulated and betrayed on all sides, maybe not in the ways she did but more mentally. And now 3 years later I have definitely matured, too, like Amy and the new record really says all I feel at the moment, like, "Okay, you've shoved your foot down my throat for so damn long, and now I'm spitting you out with nothing but a bruised pride. I'm done with me then, this is me now, get the hell out of here." And especially in "Sweet Sacrifice," "Good Enough," and "Lacrymosa," she's really expressed my feelings of rebirth and willingness to accept my flaw and good quality.

Amy Lee is the best lyricist ever, she's done so much for me as a human being, and I hope she reads these threads and understands how powerful she is, especially without Ben and all of her 'chains'... she's responsible for helping so many and it's all through song. God, I hope she hits the US again so I can actually maybe meet her... and personally thank her. *teary eyed* Much love to you Amy from the bottom of my heart.

[AliceInOz]

I've been a fan for a while but just resently Fallen helped me though a hard time. I found out early this year I had a tumor on my spine and needed an operation. If I didn't get the operation I could have been paralyzed. If I did get it , the operation itself could paralyze me. After the surgery no one was sure if I would ever walk again. I just reasently got out of hospital and the whole time I was there I listened to fallen over and over.

[Ben]

I have to say I think it's amazing how music can change someones outlook on life, and I think it's great how Ev's music can help so many people in so many ways..

I know I haven't really had any BAD periods, but I have felt really down and I've been able to interpret a lot of the songs in the way that helps me.
I mean at school, I really did feel like I was singled out, because I had a lot of friends who were girls a lot of guys didn't like me (apart from my friends and stuff) and they all assumed I was gay and just completely tormented me all the time.
My Best Friend always makes me feel like I wasn't needed when I've been the one person who's been there for her all her life. A lot of stuff like Going Under and Sweet Sacrifice sorta relates to that, so does Lacrymosa. I mean these are just songs off the top of my head lol.
Now that I'm in college and all my friends are great, that's why I think I relate to Good Enough quite a bit, coz it's surreal having so many friends and people who think I'm good enough for them, I was never good enough for any of my old 'friends'. I was always second, third fourth or like 700th best.

Thinking about it now, all these songs have really helped me actually get through school and a really bad period of threats and hatred and stuff last year. When I fell out with my friend and EVERYONE who i was friends with all took her side and I couldn't go out or anything incase I had bricks or stuff thrown at me or abuse shouted at me. It was really the worst year for me, but I mean it's not as bad as other peoples problems but it's nice to know there's someone who you can realte to.
Anyways, I'm babbling now haha. Just to let everyone and Amy know how much her words have helped me, through big and even small things.

[la.cry.mosa]

I have to say I think it's amazing how music can change someones outlook on life, and I think it's great how Ev's music can help so many people in so many ways..

I know I haven't really had any BAD periods, but I have felt really down and I've been able to interpret a lot of the songs in the way that helps me.
I mean at school, I really did feel like I was singled out, because I had a lot of friends who were girls a lot of guys didn't like me (apart from my friends and stuff) and they all assumed I was gay and just completely tormented me all the time.
My Best Friend always makes me feel like I wasn't needed when I've been the one person who's been there for her all her life. A lot of stuff like Going Under and Sweet Sacrifice sorta relates to that, so does Lacrymosa. I mean these are just songs off the top of my head lol.
Now that I'm in college and all my friends are great, that's why I think I relate to Good Enough quite a bit, coz it's surreal having so many friends and people who think I'm good enough for them, I was never good enough for any of my old 'friends'. I was always second, third fourth or like 700th best.

Thinking about it now, all these songs have really helped me actually get through school and a really bad period of threats and hatred and stuff last year. When I fell out with my friend and EVERYONE who i was friends with all took her side and I couldn't go out or anything incase I had bricks or stuff thrown at me or abuse shouted at me. It was really the worst year for me, but I mean it's not as bad as other peoples problems but it's nice to know there's someone who you can realte to.
Anyways, I'm babbling now haha. Just to let everyone and Amy know how much her words have helped me, through big and even small things.

Mind-reader. Freaky.

[perfect ghost]

Amy has inspired me and helped me in more ways than I can tell you. I have been through a lot of big and traumatic things in my life, and I find a very tight connection with the thoughts in my mind and the lyrics of the songs. I can relate to everything, in either what I believe Amy to be saying, or the way that I interpret the words in my own head. It has always given me a certain level of confidance to know that I believed in someone so much and that allowed me to believe more in myself. Another big thing for me is the fact that Evanescence's music is something that will always be there no matter what, it is always something you can turn to and it is therapy that doesn't require you to rely on someone to be there for you. And in a sense, Amy will always be there too. Although I do not know Amy on a personal level, I do however feel that there is a spiritual relationship between us because of the common ground that has been established though understanding, and therefor does not require knowledge on a personal level. I feel I can always speak out to Amy, even though she can't physically hear what I am saying, I feel satisifed, and that's what works for me. It makes me feel good knowing that I have such a deep passion for this music, and that I respect Amy beyond belief. Seeing Amy progress through the music and with growing up from the things she went through,and seeing her happy now, gives me a lot of confidance that one day I can too, and that one day I can find that inner strength that she found.

[huskmc]

well, i guess evanescence inspired me not to be as much of a hater as i was. not just evanescence but other bands. I hated who I felt like were low class trash and didn't realize hey i have problems too. i guess the music and lyrics of evanescence has kind of touched my heart a lil and warmed it. :D I realized hey, Jesus Christ didn't come to call the rightous but sinners to repentance. i guess i was the type of guy who had no understanding of this type of people. I didn't go around beating them up, just didn't like them in my heart. still don't hang out with people like this cause i feel like they are out to destroy me, drag me down in their ways, but a kind hello i might give one of them. =I God is not willing that any should perish but all come to repentence. i figured hey they go to hell no big deal, but, I feel like now i shouldn't be that way

[Animato]

I really liked your post, perfect ghost.

What I really love about certain music in my life, such as Evanescence's music, is that it's compatible with you. People can't just drop everything when they're feeling weak; you have to persevere and weather it because we all have too. Sometimes that's a hell of a lot harder than it has to be, and music like this sort of pushes you back onto some sort of equilibrium, helps you stay on that road. At least that's what it's like for me.

It's incredible the way that the work of one group of human beings can reach out and stabilise so much. That's what it does. I can feel riled, crushed down by every single miserable pathetic person who thought they could grow in inflicting upset upon another, unaccepted, unrealised and all the rest of the mess my head gets itself into, but this can help me straighten things out.

It's a universal language of consolidation, of respite, and I'm always thankful.

[FlamesHaveDestroyed]

Actually, I was thinking, if I ever met Amy, I'd tell her this; but...I told myself, "I need to consider, everyone else does this...I want to say something memorable, something...different".

Of course, most people would think that...

I'm not going to say Evanescence or Amy saved my life. Because, a) They didn't and b) It's stalkerish, and downright disturbing.
They saved me in a completely different manner, musically, which takes up my whole life.
I've been playing piano since I was 6, by ear, but didn't start taking lessons until 11 or so. I never took it seriously, ever. Then I started listening to Ev, and it changed my life. I was looking at Give Unto Me a few days ago, and realized Amy probably wrote it when she was around 19 or 18.
That's incredible composition. You have to see it yourself, to realize, "Wow. She wrote that."
It gave me such a feeling of realization, that I need to start taking my poetry, songs, singing, and piano playing seriously. I started sitting in a closet downstairs (since no one would hear me that way) and started singing my heart out, back when...My voice would crack on My Immortal *shudders* anywho, I don't believe in voice lessons, I'm sure a lot of people on here are great if they take them, I'm just not into it...If Amy got where she was in a choir, it shows I have a miniscule chance of making it.
And so I sang, for six months, and I can actually say I am so much better, all thanks to Miss Lee and the band. Of course, words cannot describe how grateful I am, but I can only wish that I could ever compose something as incredibly as they can...

[CrackedOutLithium]

alot of people say the same things and im sure shes heard it all before but shes inspire me in alot of ways which is rare for me cuz artists/musicians dont really do that theyre more for entertainment IMO but the band all inspires me in diferent ways which is too boring and too repetative to post here. theyre a great bunch of people.

[huskmc]

alot of people say the same things and im sure shes heard it all before but shes inspire me in alot of ways which is rare for me cuz artists/musicians dont really do that theyre more for entertainment IMO but the band all inspires me in diferent ways which is too boring and too repetative to post here. theyre a great bunch of people.

I have to say that is probably the best way to look at it.

[CrAzYpLuToGuRl]

Now that I look back on it, there are no words to describe how Amy how helped and inspired me. Before I discovered Fallen, I didn't have that faviorte band or person to look up to. I didn't even know what happiness was or what it meant to be loved. I only knew pain and suffering for so long, that I became numb to my life. During my teenage years, to make a long story short, my sister was bipolar and never took her meds, she was in and out of mental wards and I'm pretty sure every cop in town knew our family. I had also had quite a few loved ones die. There were days when I just didn't want to live. My family was broken into peices down to the bare bone. But Amy changed all of that. When I had the toughest of my battles, I would turn Evanescence music up as loud as it could go and sit and listen to Amy's angelic voice and visualize the pain that was in the music, I would cry my eyes out until I didn't have any tears left. My mom at first was worried because she felt the lyrics were too dark, but then noticed how it always seemed to brighten my day when I had it tough. Amy was the one person who was able to bring my family back together again. My sister's and I were watching the video of My Immortal together, and for once we wern't fighting, we were a family even if it was only for that one moment. Amy has inspired me to acheive my every goal and dream even if people put me down and say I can't do it. She has taught me that we are not alone in the pain that we suffer and that we are all worth something. I said to myself, if I meet Amy one day and die the next I will die happy knowing that I have met my true idol and inspiration. Every time I look at the poster of her on my wall I can't help but to smile. She is loyal to her fans and has been through so much, and it amazes me how she uses her pain to write songs. Until that day comes of meeting her or even as to much talking to her, if Amy ever reads this I just wanted to say "Amy, thank you for mending the broken peices of my family, and inspiring me to live my life no matter what, your music has saved my life and I am so grateful for having someone I can truly look up to, I know you will go far in life, no matter what people say about you, just know that you will always have your true hardcore loving fans:)" Your awsome Amy!!!


love a die hearted fan,

CrAzYpLuToGuRl

[Before-The-Dawn]

Amy has helped me a lot with my life.. Don't want to say how but she has. I love her for that <33

[heartstringz]

Her words have helped me a great deal. No matter how many other songs she writes I will always love Whisper the most - as it is the song that means the most to me out of any I have ever heard. It showed me that I wasn't alone and that someone as amazing, talented and beautiful as Amy had felt the same way as me at some point in her life.

Not only that but until listening to Ev I never had the courage to write about how I was truely feeling. I was afraid to express my true thoughts and emotions, and afraid that my words would be too dark. Ev's songs pretty much broke the barrier or block that I had and I have barely stopped writing since.

Also, I love how we can spend ages on these internet sites interpreting the true meanings of all the Ev songs, yet they are so deeply interwoven that they can have a multitude of different meanings to different people. I have assigned many of their songs with events in my life and they alway seem to fit perfectly. I guess I'm trying to say that I love how Amy is generally not explicit about the meaning in the songs.

[Svetlana-S.V.D.]

There's so much in my heart about Evanescence that sometimes I afraid to say it out loud to not letting that go... it's really personal! and that is incredible... the world wide known band seems personal for me... like they tried to hit My heart... not someone else! I think many people can understand that!

Actually there're not so many things that affect our life really deeply... I think so! for me Evanescence is such one!

I have a list of 'special' music - it's music that in particular period of my life was like a thunder for me, it was the sound of my life.... Beethoven, Chopin, Nirvana, Evanescence.... It's not the line of my favorite music! It's the music that affected me much... and even if I'd never ever listen to it (I do not listen to this music every day.... actually I do listen it really seldom... except Ev) nothing could change the great meaing of this music for me! (oh! I've written all this several years ago in my letter to Amy... which I sent to her management... just curious..had she ever read it :D?)

That were general words.... a thousend times heard be Amy and a band!

As for my story how the band helped me.... and inspired me...

this music appeared in my life when I needed support.... when I was staying at home for a month by myself while my mother was in hospital near her death (she surived and ok now... may be because I had strength to believe that everything would be ok...)... and I wasn't asleep for whole night just to see Everybody's Fool on MTV to see something I could believe... and was listening to Hello for a thousend times just to let tears flow (I had to be strong in public... and I was)..... that support was without me trying to explain something to someone when my family was distroying by my father and I was "strong and adult enough" for undertanding and taking everything as it was...
and ... like for many people... this music helped me to understand who am I... and what i want to be.... and yet it does...
and here goes not only the music... and Amy's lyrics... I admire with this women!
but what about music...
several years ago this music reminded me how I want to sing... (how I always wanted since i was a child!)... how I like to play piano... how I like to be me but 'that best-in-something girl'... oh! and Amy reminded me I can draw... I used to love it in high school... but then I had a break... really longterm break! SO as you see... Evanescence is really good inspiration!

Amy says she's not a therapist... but her work has this effect... she's not responsible for that I think.... I am... I've found her music, words and voice healing for myself! her lyrics and Evanescence music doesn't have answers for each question I have... but they already gave me a lot of... so that's worth something! and I have a HUGE 'thank you' in my heart!!!!
oh....
and it's not less even after so many words (that may seem useless... and even may be useless)....


I'm sorry for this looooooooong post.... (it's Friday and I have nothing to do at work).... I just was putting some feelings in words....:) I don't like to feel like crazy fangirl! and actually I don't think I am.... just.... have some special feeling for this band (hmm... I think you've got it....)!

ps... thanks for brave people who read till this place my wordfall!!!

[BLAISE]

I won't say it's Just Amy...but the Band as a Whole has really helped me over the last couple of months for sure! My Papa Bob died on August 1st, and it was Really hard on me. In all honesty, i still am crying myself to sleep some nights thinking about him. He was like a Father to me...and i got 23 Amazing years. I should be thankful i got that long, and i should be Thrilled that he is Finally where he spent his entire life striving to go. He is roaming around Heaven with Jesus as his guide Right Now, and i am thrilled! But being the mortal I am, i miss him desperatly. There isn't anything i wouldn't do for a few more moments with him. :(

Anyway, about a month after he died, i got deployed (which is where i am today) to the desert for a few months. It wouldn't be so bad if there was something to take your mind off things. There is the gym, chow, and work, and that's about it. So there is a LOT of time to let your mind wonder. I don't want that, because every time it wonders i start to think about my Papa. Then i think *this is only the begining, how many more are going to die?* I don't Want to think that...it just happens. So then my heart gets very heavy, and i worry that i won't be able to go home if something happens to my family or friends, and it KILLS me. Every Damn Day i'm over here, it Kills me inside to think that I might not be able to be there when my Family needs me. You tend to think about that a LOT while your deployed.

So i guess that within this year (they've helped me before, but that would take WAY to much time to write about), I can say that Evanescence has helped me a Great Deal. How?! Because when i listen to Evanescence, that is THE ONLY time I don't think about my Papa Bob, and the rest of my family that i can't see for another couple of months. It is the only time i have peace in my heart, and peace in my mind out here. So THANK YOU EVANESCENCE! :cool: Thank you for giving me a few moments of comfort while i'm away from home. It means a Great deal to me! :D

[kakar]

well, the music of evanescence saved me and keeps me alive! the music something that alliviates to my pain when I need… sometimes when I feel myself very badly, I cut myself… and what holds me many times is the voice of amy… it makes me cry, but hinders me to make something more worse… Iit must give to much value the life that has… for to be so good and to really save as many people of the suicide and of other things…
amy is really an angel!

sorry the errors!!(my english is veryyyy bad!)

[Nightmare Angel]

It was 2005 when i first heared "fallen". The guy I was terribly in love with gave it to me. Then he left me in a really cruel way. Amy Lee helped me overcome this. Second, I live in a country, you haven't probably heared about: Moldova. No one speaks English here. Anyway, i was so eager to know what Amy was singing about, that i started learning English. In addition, her songs were so inspiring, that i started writing poetry, and i've already got two books published. Thanks a lot to Evanescence!!
P.S.: You can read my poems on: Paper flowers => Nightmares of a fallen angel. Just find my thread and see waht Evanescence songs have done to me!!

[LoseControl]

Wow, as it seems Amy has saved more lives than she could ever have expected... including mine...

You should know, I´m male and I fall in love with boys... So you can call me gay, I suppose...;)

Yeah, and what happens if a gayguy falls in love with a heterosexual, completely sweet, kind and handsome guy who´s unfortunately not in your closer community but in your Latin course?
Oh, dear, I admired him like a god... And I was unable to accept that the situation was completely hopeless, nothing more than a binding and blinding waste of feelings... because he never could have felt the things I felt for him...
At first I just waited and hoped that somehow any kind of contact could come but we never spoke more than 3 words with each other... and I was so damn fascinated of his eyes, his face, his appearance at all... I was even unable to talk to him because stottering interrupted every sentence...
But it was a status of standstill (wonder if that´s correct) because I waited hopelessly for anything that would bring a change but of course there came nothing.
But simply the thought of letting it go was so painful to me that I couldn´t get rid of these feelings...

Yeah, and this time was the time when 'Fallen' was played in my room about 3 times a day, just to protect me from that pain...
Taking over Me, Going Under, Haunted... they all became something like friends to me that soothed the feelings and pain... and everytime I was listening to it it felt like the pain was drained away, piece by piece.
And one more strange thing happened... Everytime when the CD was played Amy´s voice began to become something like a soul or ghost that streamed out of the boxes and floated around me, recovering and strengthing me with every note it sang...
Yeah, our sweet kind Amy is a reborn angel that was fighting against demons of pain in hell... with her voice as her weapon...;)
Maybe something like witchcraft really exists, maybe Amy is a magician...:)

Whatever, in every case she´s the reason why I´m still alive inside...

CU

[thatoneAnthony]

it's not really AMY who inspired me, it's more like the music. I don't know Amy personally, so I can't say SHE has helped me. The band's music made me feel that i'm not alone (even though it sounds corny ... tee hee). Both the music and the lyrics have helped me. the music just has this thing. idk. lol. Fallen helped me more than TOD, but i think it's because i'm at a part in my life where I'm not so depressed, compared to where i was 3 years ago with Fallen.

[Miss Charlotte]

So much. Since 2003 Amy and the rest of the band helped with their song. With their songs I could see that I was not alone, that was not only me that thought about things that others could think that I was crazy or something like this; With their song I could and still can set me free from myself, and it is so magic and very important.
That's why I love the band and it is my passion.


Ev <33342535757952142.

[..Lithium..]

My ex hated when I listened to Evanescence
I would sit there and sing to Amy Lee all the time. Trying to get my voice to match hers
And he would get upset, because he thought it caused me the depression, when he didn't realize it was him.
He was never there for me when I needed him. Depending on my mood, I would put on a specific song, and write in my journal. It has helped me so much. I love Amys writing style.
Im hoping to get a keyboard/piano soon so I can learn how to play. I play my guitar and viola when Im stressed, and the piano would be the most perfect way to let my stress and anger out. Im not depressed anymore, my life is great. Its just work that makes me so angry and stressed!

[Thais_Essence]

Helped me of a depression too, amy you don't know the way you helped me! :)

[evanescence64]

Amy's inspired me by expressing her songs in her art; songwrighting.
She's influenced me so much, that I'm trying my hand at song wrighting.
I've been depressed on and off, but the biggest thing that brings me back to myself is listening to Amy's voice, and listening to Evanescence's music. It calms me down more than anything, and it makes me feel like no one's waiting for me to mess up, just to listen to music and be free from the world.

[Alonos]

well, if Amy someday read this she would see that her band and their music had helped a lot of people, I include myself of course.

Music is a great therapy they say, now with Ev i know is true, at ends of 2003 my grandfather died, i was devastated i was really close to him, then 7 days after he died I went to the Cd store and saw Amy face there like Smiling me, I buyed the album and then well with every song i felt connected, but when it arrived to My Immortal i could felt the presence of My grandfather and with that song, trough Amy's voice i was telling him Good bye.

In that 2004 my life was full of good byes, I saw many people important in my life to go away, but Evanescence was there, 2004 was maybe the worst year of my life, but Evanescence helped to get trough.

So Thanks Evanescence, You have helped me a lot, more than many people.

[ev_nightessence]

Evanescence has helped so many times..

In this year, my grandfather died, and I was very sad because of it. Ev helped me a lot.
I was listenning "Breathe No More" a few days ago and it makes me cry, because was that song I listenned in this very difficult time of my life.


When everything seems to be crazy, when I want to die or just disappear, Ev is the only thing that makes me to be better.

[paper_h.e.a.r.t]

In the truth I admire it, for the voice of it and for the letters that it writes, I identify myself very…

[sweetdelirium]

I would say the ways she has helped me, but I would sound like a stereotypical, suicidal teenager, and I am not. But she has brought relief to me in those times of need. :)

[Soya]

Well, I think I can only agree with everyone here. Amy made me open my eyes for myself and for the world I'm living in. I had some worse Problems in my life with my family, friends and much more...Life wasn't always easy to me. So Amys songs showed me "Hey, you're not alone! Just open your eyes!" and I did.
:o I'm sooooo grateful for her. Never give up yourself amy. Don't stop writing those wonderful songtexts. We all love and need you.

[dark_whisper]

she has helped me in many ways, but it's more of how evanescence has helped me in many ways. (it's not just solely of amy...it's more than her). the music speaks for itself and thats what caught my attention of how true it is. i can relate to certain things that amy talks about in the music. some of it touches home for me. amy/evanescence has helped me view life in a positive way, in more ways of knowing that i'm not alone in what i'm feeling. she has inspired me to feel more passionate about life, art, music, and so on. it's really a great thing to relate to someone i don't even know personally, but i feel i know her through her art, and that's a wonderful thing. it's a great feeling. i am thankful to know a band, to listen to a band, and to relate and understand a band like evanescence and someone like amy that gives meaning to words and art and of course life.

[Chiara]

Evanescence's songs has helped me when i was sad and i needed to shout my sadness,so i sang them and now it is still in this way. They helps me so much and Amy Lee has make me understand how much i love music and singing cause since when i was a child,my dream is become a singer. I wish i could sing with Amy! It would be great!

ah! I forgot a thing! Amy's songs help me when i have problems too,they make me feel strong! Thank u very much Amy,thank u Evanescence!

[SpectralRaven]

Well, to put it simply, my mom had brain surgery April of 2003, which was in the middle of my Evanescence obsession. I know music is an emotional escape outlet for me, so I cannot imagine where I would be now without "Fallen". Quite frankly, I don't think I want to know.

[Lithium82]

Where do I start? I cry everytime I talk about this lol but tears of hope
I have always been a sad person behind closed doors, and would hide it from the world with a smile. Fallen and thier older songs showed me I'm not alone. Gave me a release I desperately needed. Than the open door came out and woh.... I relate to it so much. I was in a painful relationship for 3 years. He was an alcholic plus he had another hurtful addiction on top of that. When I would cry in bed and even right in front of him about us and he would ignore me or not want to talk about it. I lost myself in the midst of those years. i dont even remember who I was before I was with him. I spend all of my thoughts on him and our relationship and the deeper it went the more lost I got. Then a week after we broke up he slept with my best friend. They now have a baby and are engaged. They stabbed me in the back. I lost more friends because they sided with them, they never really treated me very well sometimes. they turned thier back when I needed them the most. I had finally gotten out of something that was tearing at my heart and they decided to dig it deeper. So The Open Door is like an angel, Its helping me find myself again. The songs tell exactly what i'm feeling and what I did/am going through, and are making me stronger.
I have a new man in my life and his love for me is what I've always wanted. So Good Enough is so amazing to me, I feel so connected to the song. I am picking myself up again and is helping me to find the person who was in me all along.
Also, I want to be a singer, I couldnt find my voice. Amy helped me find it.

[Army_of_1]

I felt so alone, just cut off from the outside world. Barely making it through the darkest, coldest nights. They just comfort me.

[keziya]

She just inspires me as a person to be myself. I know it sounds cheesy but its true. I mean I was pretty confident in being myself before but Amy's just reinforced it and makes it even better. I also think she's an awesome role model for the young people.

*excuse the cheese factor of this post lol*

[billy_magnum]

She made me realize that in music aswell as life..honesty is the best policy. She helped me see that by being honest/writing honestly the outcome is so much better and you are better for it. You are not always right or wrong and it takes a lot to be honest with yourself instead of just placing blame when you are wrong. You end up taking a lot of wieght off of yourself. Theres much more I can thank her for but she knows what she does for a lot of people already.

[xWriTeMeASoNgx3]

Amy actually helped me to discover that i can sing. When i bought fallen and started to sing along to it, i realized i had an upper range and i can belt! lol

They also help me whenever i'm sad or mad. I'll just blast any of their music and sing along or just listen and it will help me to feel better

<3

[Ben]

Amy actually helped me to discover that i can sing. When i bought fallen and started to sing along to it, i realized i had an upper range and i can belt! lol

They also help me whenever i'm sad or mad. I'll just blast any of their music and sing along or just listen and it will help me to feel better

<3

That's another reason for me too lol, singing along to Ev songs helped me develop a better range and helped me WANT to become a better singer. I still suck, but I'm better than before lol.

[fgd_86]

Amy is absolutely inspiring, she´s a successful rock singer, with a powerful and beautiful voice that can touch everyone´s heart, her music is fascinating, but what I really admire of her is her morality, she´s not like the others celebrities doing anything for money... she just love her music, her fans and being on stage...

she really helped me out looking the brighter side of things, and always doing my best

AMY YOU ROCK!!!!! :p

[kylo4]

Evanescence have helped me get through bullying. I'd be sad and Amy's voice would sound like it had some hurt in it and it would comfort me. The music is always there to help me and their albums always come along at the right time to help me. Lacrymosa especially helped me with its lyrics and the musical backdrop. Amy's voice is relaxing and enthralling at the same time and I don't know what I'd do without it.

[Cloud~Nine]

When i hear evanescence i don't feel alone anymore because amy's voice is in all my room and i'ts kinda depressant....when i've bought fallen i had a grievous phase and i felt misunderstood and alone...the songs on fallen helped me to endure this situation...her voice,the music and the lyrics give me the feeling not to be alone and it make me stronger because there are a lot of songs,which speak out of my soul *sigh* :D i love that...i love evanescence <3

[amylee1213]

I myself have been diagnose with depression since i was 15. I was so angry at life before i discover Evanescence. Now whenever i am angry, sad, stress, or feeling lonely, i put on Ev's cd and just let the music relax me. I feel connect with her music. I feel like she is like my free therapy. Help me feel less alone.

[Darklouis]

anything thing of Amy , save me and help me....

shes piece of my life,

tank's amy....you're very special to me!!!
And one day i'm gona see you!!!

[xxinanimatexxlithiumxx]

About 2 months ago when my dog Pokey passed, it was a difficult time. He's been in my family since I was only 1. He lived with me for 17 years. To see him on the table at the vet was like seeing my brother lying down waiting to be killed, while i held him in my arms. He was old and too brittle, Tumor in his rectum and loosing his legs and already lost hearing a few years back.

The song "Goodnight" really helped me start to cope with it about a week before it happened. The last thing I ever said to him before the vet had told me he passed on through, was "goodnight".

& back in like '04, I found out one of my friends was a fake phone, and listening to "Everybody's Fool" & "My Last Breath" helped me get my anger out, of course writing my own lyrics too :P

[gothicprince]

The Evanescence´s lyric (of the Fallen) haunted me since the first time. All the lyric help me in a way or other, but Everybody´s Fool help me to feel good when I´m with "hately" people; Tourniquet, to think about suicide (the sweet dark way).
By other hang Where Will You Go is a hymn to me and Taking Over Me is the ideal song for the woman of my live.

Sadly, I don´t feel anything about The Open Door´s lyric, not like the Fallen use to be for me.

I remember, always that I cry, "Ascension of the Spirit". Is so beatiful !!!

By other hand, Solitude impress me since the first time.

Hello is the beloved one of the sadness.

(I´m cuban, a spoke spanish and a not very well english)

A personal story: Once I almost die drown on the sea and, in my "supposed" final moment, I think on "Bring Me To Life"

[BLAISE]

Well, there have been a few times where I have sat down and had to listen to EV. Simply because it calms me and takes my mind off of the matter at hand. Like when my Papa Bob passed away in August. I had EV going non stop pretty much, just so I wouldn't have to think about the situation for once 24/7. Thinking about it led me to crying about it, and I didn't want to do that because my Mom, adn siblings needed me to be strong, ya know? So it helped a lot there...

In more recent history, Ev is The ONLY THING keeping me Sane through this deployment. I've been stuck out here for almost 6 months, and if I don't listen to them, at least once a day, then I swear I would severly hurt somebody. Haa haa..people are getting on my last nerves...so in a way, you can say Ev boosts my moral, and keeps ORM alive. :p

[Alter Mann]

Well...she kinda changed my life...
Before I got to know the band Evanescence and other rock bands like Nightwish, Marilyn Manson etc. etc., I was a big Eminem-fan and also addicted to other rappers too.
But then...a miracle happened and in just one evening I became "metalhead".
Thanks to you, Amy and Evanescence! ;)

[EVANESCENCE_freak]

she let me know I am not the only one, because for a long time I felt really alone

Same with me!!

[Birgitta]

^^ This is also the same with me. The lyrics of the songs have helped me with many personal problems. I can't imagine Evanescence's music not being in my life these past four years.

[Ciera]

In my worst nights waiting for Ev albums has been my best aim and Ev songs have taken me away and helped me get my pressure and stress and also stupid self-pity out.

And Amy is a great role model, too. I've takes a couple leaves out of her book and I have some better attitudes now. My attitudes were just extra negative and they still kind of are that. But now I know that if I want to change things for myself, I really need to change them or the way I see them and not just sit and wait for things to get even worse. I know more of me, both positive and negative things, now that the songs have made me think of what I want to be and what I don't want to be. Ev music has totally changed me.

Yeah shes such a good role model
Shes helped me durning the tough times during my dads depression and my moms too
Thankyou Evanescence :)

[McBunbunz]

She helped me save my life. I don't think there's much else to say except thank you.

[eirs_within_amy]

I can't really say that amy has changed my life, but i can say that after reading this thread I am coming to realize the impact of her words to the world. I had heard on a few occasions that she kept some people from suicide, but i did not know that she has affected people on many different emotional levels. I also don't think she will ever fully understand how important she is to others. She knows, but she doesn't? If that makes sense..? lol We need more amys in the world, ;)

[Lauren1]

Amy, and the rest of the band, have helped me through so many tough times. I've been suffering from back pain for about 3 years and the doctors have just figured out what's wrong. Unfortunatly, there is nothing they can do. I'm always in pain, it never stops. Knowing that I will have to live with this is a scary thought, but when I listen to Ev it really helps. I feel like I can take it.....

[LittleAmy]

The music of Evanescence I help myself with many problems,to know me my same one and to understand the life the songs really reflect that I am and Amy She made me play the piano :) thankyou Evanescence for everything lol :rolleyes:

[Emptiness]

she let me know I am not the only one, because for a long time I felt really alone

This forum really made me realize that..

[ashton78]

Amy inspired me to play the piano. Her words have made me a better person.Evanescence inspired me to be more creative.They have helped me feel better when I was feeling down I just like listening to their music and just drift away.To put it short Evanescence has helped me and inspired me.

[~*AutumnRain*~]

Amy Lee is for real. She's not a faker, let me not name, like some artists out there. She is so honest and he songs and her lyrics have helped through some rough times. Like MISSING and THE ONLY ONE(A problem i am dealing with now and I am gettin through it) I learned that it's ok to express your self and now i write lyrics because she said that if you got like a problem. Write it out, do something about it. And I have learnt to put my feelings on paper. Look at my lyrics, I express myself through them. I learnt it's ok to be different. My mom introduced me to ev in 2003..At first I wasnt to thrilled with BMTL...But I heard it over and over and the lyrics moved me. And at that time i was getting ready, cause we were moving to greece, so I bought the cd and i felt like so inspired. I wrote my first lyrics on the plane. Then here in Greece, the 3 years here, I have changed so much cause of amy and the band. I've become more creative. I'm learning how to play piano. I feel better when I listen to their music and lyrics. I've become a better person. She's a great role model and I totally agree with Sunrise Dream...If it weren't for Amy and Ev, I probably would have been a totally different person of what now. But I love me for what I am and accept me. Like amy lee once said NOBODY'S PERFECT. I AM PERFECTLY FLAWED...and i love that quote

[CaptainNapalm]

She is an inspiration to anyone who dances to their own beat. She does what she wants artistically and the result is some pretty amazing music. I like that she doesn't give in to public pressure, as a lot of famous people do. She didn't cave in and change the song she had written for the Narnia movie. I also saw an interview with her about the making of the video for Call Me When You're Sober and she said that the director had tried to convince her to straddle the guy at the end part of the video. She refused. That might not seem like a big deal, given some of the things protrayed in videos today, but it shows she has integrity and isn't going to back down. Very classy and very tough. Me likey!

[follylane]

I'm just glad that there's some ACTUAL talent in the music industry because of them. They aren't screaming guys with hair over their eyes who only know a couple of chords, and Amy isn't some slut stripping on stage. Amy is actually talented. That is very inspiring, because she shows that its ok to be good at what you do, and to try your hardest, and EARN your success, instead of grabbing it by tearing off your clothes, or bribing record companies with your money.

Amy is real. And boy, is that hard to find among people, let alone celebs, these days.

[Zebra]

When I get enormously mad I'll sit in my room in the dark and listen to Going Under and Sweet Sacrifice over and over for hours. I really don't wanna get into specifics, though.

[Cfw828]

As far as how Amy has handled herself...one of the things that I appreciate being close to her age group is that she's not afraid to stand up for what she believes in. Being naturally shy, I appreciate the idea of somebody simply not giving two ****s about what anybody else thinks.

She's received a lot of criticism for it...but I think in "essence" (:P) whether it's in song or whether it's an interview, it's what makes her real.

Aside from that, I appreciate that Amy and Ben were able to take something that they believed in so early in their lives to the level that they took it to. Any teenager should look at their dedication and become inspired.

They weren't some overnight sensation either. They worked for 8 years before they earned that album that they deserved. Fallen. Any lesser band/artist would have long been broken up.

Even though it broke the two apart, their efforts will always be remembered and rewarded.

[Mellbie]

I fell in love with the imagery created by the words in Amy's songs. We played "My Immortal" at my mums funeral when she lost her battle with cancer just over two years ago. The strength of Amy after losing her sister Bonnie, and all her songs relating to how much she misses her, helps me come to terms with the loss of my own mum. Such an inspiration to everyone. I am proud to be a fan.

[Sparkling Gray]

of Amy after losing her sister Bonnie

How do you know her sister's name is Bonnie? I don't think she ever even revealed it...

[Mellbie]

I have my sources...LOL. But her sisters name is definately Bonnie, she lost her when she was just 6 years old. How? I dont know. But...yeah. I have a secret source...LOL. The net rocks.

[Thatiana]

(Some parts are a copy of what I wrote in another thread)
She inspires and helps me a lot.
She´s helping me not to feel so hurt and don´t take things to heart when people are just being insensitive or being rude, and I´m trying to get better.
She also shows that she is a very confidence person now and I´m trying to become a confidence person too
Amy also shows that we can overcome the bad things, the problems, that we all can have in our lives, and become a stronger and better person. In the last years my life became a hell, because I have some big problems and I´m trying to fix this things now, it´s hard but I´m trying, because I want to be the happy person that I used to be a long time ago.
And I agree when ~*Lacrymosa*~ says that Amy is real and not a faker, like many artist that whe can see today
Have the great music too, which helps me a lot and really touchs my soul.
Those are some reasons that makes me love this girl so much, because of those things she will have a place in my heart forever and I´ll be always thankful.

[thatoneAnthony]

has Amy helped me? no. i don't know her personally, so i can't say she has. but she has inspired me. more than any other artist these days. when i wanna get in the mood to write something good, i listen to Ev. when i need to get in a sad/intense mood for a play..or movie.. i listen to ev.

[DDeReK]

Amy Lee in particular has helped me to understand and respect a woman's point of view. She has helped me to relate to and communicate my own feelings and to be more aware of and open to the feelings of others. She is a shining example of the Goddess reaching out to all of us. Thank you for being you, Amy.

[!evanescence!4!eva!]

firstly the band has helped me with their music in many ways
amy has helped me because i now have a role model, who can help me when im feeling down...she rocks!

[Sparkling Gray]

I have my sources...LOL. But her sisters name is definately Bonnie, she lost her when she was just 6 years old. How? I dont know. But...yeah. I have a secret source...LOL. The net rocks.

The only place I know that said it was Bonnie was TV.com...

[laurap2007]

Yeah i totally agree with all of you, Music is the best kind of therapy, especially Evanescence.
It makes you really emotional at times too(either i have a big cry or a big smile), i think its brilliant. The music makes me happy when i'm down and i'd like to thank evanescence for being the best band ever.

[Faded_Elegance]

I just found out last year that I have depression, and whenever I'm in a depressed state, I play Ev songs. Their music gives me solace. It is just so powerful, moving, and deep, and Amy's voice is so beautiful. I find a comfort in it that not just any music gives me. That's why they're my favorite band. I'm also an aspiring singer, and Amy is my rolemodel. She's not a shallow slut who sells sex and can't sing worth a damn. She's a real artist who demands respect. Don't stop being you, Amy! :)

[Evhead007]

Amy and the band in general has inspired me so deeply!I think i was dpresssed for about a year when i was about 12. I'v gotten over that thanks to Ev, and my own strength.I'm older now but, i still am misunderstood and I get taken adventage of ALOT because i'm smart.Also people make fun of me but now i dont even care what the heck people think of me!Evanescence moved me, and Amy inspired me <3


Also my friend has epilepsy so I could not thank her enough for what she has done for my best friend and me!:D

<3:love:

[gothicprince]

She makes me an artist, all of me is for her. I only live to see her sing and play with Evanescence.

She is the reason of all my steps...

[katie08]

I have my sources...LOL. But her sisters name is definately Bonnie, she lost her when she was just 6 years old. How? I dont know. But...yeah. I have a secret source...LOL. The net rocks.

:down: :no: Out of respect for Amy and her family, you shouldn't mention her name. (as Amy herself once said in an interview that it would just be too hard to see her name in print and her family would be very upset).

[LadyChaos]

I can't say that she has, but this thread is very heartwarming. Any artist would be (and very well should be) proud to inspire so many.

[Julieann]

When I bought "Fallen," it was the first album I'd ever listened to where I didn't want to fast forward to the songs I already knew. Then I started noticing that every song -- EVERY ONE -- opened me up in a way I can't really describe. Each song was a feeling I didn't know how to express, a thought I couldn't quite put into words.

I'm sure people say this all the time, but whatever. I'll go ahead and be repetitive. Amy Lee saved my life, on more than one occasion. I'll spare you all the gory details, but honestly there are a couple times when I wouldn't have made it through the night without "Fallen." And now "The Open Door" is like a celebration that I did make it.

Thank you Amy. You kick my ass, in a really good way. :yes:

[!evanescence!4!eva!]

amy has inspired me because of the great person she is...she's amazing!

[CatherineLovett]

Haha. I know this is kinda repetitive because of people saying this, but Amy has saved my life. Seriously. I was going to commit suicide a few weeks ago....but I thought I'd listen to one last song. My mp3 player was on shuffle....and what song comes on but Tourniquet. Hello comes after that. It was like....my mind saying, "Okay, Sakura. This is the during(Tourniquet), and this will be the after(Hello) if you go through this." It was a little creepy, having Hello playing right after Tourniquet....but then after that, Lithium comes on, followed by Weight of the World.

This may sound really weird, but I believe that choice of songs appeared not by coincidence, but by some weird twist of fate. It was like Evanescence telling me, "Don't do this, you don't want to die."

Now, whenever I feel miserable, I listen to Ev. I'm also getting help from a therapist....haha, I have my own therapist! Okay.

Actually, I feel like I have 2...^^

[Julieann]

CrimsonTwilight--that's a little like what was going on with me a couple years ago. Now, if I have to have angry time, I listen to "Going Under" and other stuff off "Fallen" and when I'm done with angriness and I feel better I listen to TOD.

I'm glad you're doing better. I know what it's like to be in that place inside your head where it's always freezing cold nighttime, and I hope we can both stay out of it.

[Clairic]

Haha. I know this is kinda repetitive because of people saying this, but Amy has saved my life. Seriously. I was going to commit suicide a few weeks ago....but I thought I'd listen to one last song. My mp3 player was on shuffle....and what song comes on but Tourniquet. Hello comes after that. It was like....my mind saying, "Okay, Sakura. This is the during(Tourniquet), and this will be the after(Hello) if you go through this." It was a little creepy, having Hello playing right after Tourniquet....but then after that, Lithium comes on, followed by Weight of the World.

This may sound really weird, but I believe that choice of songs appeared not by coincidence, but by some weird twist of fate. It was like Evanescence telling me, "Don't do this, you don't want to die."

Now, whenever I feel miserable, I listen to Ev. I'm also getting help from a therapist....haha, I have my own therapist! Okay.

Actually, I feel like I have 2...^^

OMG. Your story is the one that got my eye. I always think of you is funny, I've seen you on here, and you are so, so funny. Your art is so good and beautiful. So hunny I'm happy Evanescence helped you, and that is weird the MP3 Player played "Tourniquet" and "Hello". And I hope Amy see's this post, because it made me cry.:love:

[gabriel1802]

Letting me know that im know the only one.

[lynn_farie]

Well, Amy's musical ability has inspired me quite a lot, I don't think I could sing half as good right now if it wasn't for her ^ ^

Also, when first purchased Fallen (which was about a year ago) the words of the songs fit my feelings perfectly, and somehow that supported me on the way. When Open Door came out, I was a much stronger, happier person, and the songs fit my feelings so thoroughly that it was scary. Seriously, I just gawked at my CD player when I first heard Lithium and All That I'm Living For, it was as if they came straight from my heart. Weird.

[Darkangelofrock]

She saved my life. I was user of self-injuries a lot when I started to listen Ev for the first time. I was 14 years old and this year was really difficult for me. Some events happened in my life and I was depressive. When I heard Hello for the first time, I cried for many hours. And I decided to buy Fallen ( my first cd )...Since this time, I use to listen Ev in hard moments of my life, and Amy became a model for me, to help me to pass through all pain I lived, cause she lived the same thing. She's so amazing now, It gave me the courage to pass through it. That's why, Evanescence became a kind of religion for me, the only thing in what I believe. I don't see Amy as a goddess...I see Amy like a mother, the mother that I never had.

[Evhead007]

I don't see Amy as a goddess...I see Amy like a mother, the mother that I never had.

aww thats so sad...:(

i kno how u feel... a similar thing happened to me

Amy needs to see this thread...if she hasn't already:confused: .I hope she post on it:p

srry im smiley happy

[Lovely_Lithium]

Amy Lee/Evanescence has helped me out in so many ways. I've been put through alot of crap with my writing, and just trying to be myself in general. The latest thing I've had to go through with that is that I wrote something for school, a poem actually, and they called DHR because they thought that I was being abused/raped/mistreated which was so far from the truth. So I just felt so full of hatred and anger and sadness. I listened to her and it took all of that away. She's helped me see that I shouldn't be so selfish because I'm not the only one who has these kinds of things happen to them. I shouldn't just give up and go and like jump off a cliff and die to save myself from this, and that I have to be strong and live through it with my head held high and my feet on the ground and I shouldn't take crap from anyone.
She really is a great role model because she isn't fake like so many people out there. I'm not fake. I'm as myself as I can get, and if that means I don't have any friends, than that's fine, I don't need a bunch of fake loser as friends anyway. I could go on and on but I'll stop here.
Thnx Amy. ILY!

[Eduardo]

Haha. I'm from México and i'm new in all of this i'd never post in some other place on the web (so, sorry if i'm not doing rigth), and i was searching for, someplace to say something like this, i even searching for places to contact Amy, and say her this and i found it, AT LAST!!!.... I just hope someday she read this...
In my most saddest moments and even in my happiest moments, Evanescence and Amy's songs have always been there, it's means a lot for me, really, more in this moments, i'm having a really hard time with my family and friends (as all of the guys that have been posted) and the open door and the other songs, it's helping me to find out a way to put out all of the sadness, sickness and frustation, and most of all to realize that i'm not alone in all of this, like it's says in like you "no matter what they told you, you'r not alone" and it's right, i'm not alone, i got me, it sounds weard, but it's truth, when you don't have no one, who's left?? you, has been hard but i'm here and that what's matters... i just want to thank to Amy and the band for all of this, without them probably i wasn´t here... Thank you!!!... really!!!! (I apoologyse if i don't explain myself... my english it's not so good)

[Zack]

im from melbourne, australia. before i started to listen to evanescence i always put myself into situations i knew would get bad, and one day someone that used to be my friend bashed me and i was bleeding and everything, the the people who helped me (my other friends) acted like they knew nothing about it then i found out they helped plan it (jaming the phone box with bus tickets so you cant use it, getting me to the place to get attacked), at school the next week the person who bashed me kept telling people and i was getting sick of it day by day, then i listened to GOING UNDER and EVERYBODY's FOOL (that was the same year fallen came out and i already had some of their older work) and those 2 songs really woke me up to what was happening, THEY were everybody's fool and i was going under, the strange thing was i underestimated how likeable i am, people started to stick up for me but she kept going on about bashing me, then i carefully listened to going under and stood up to her and told her to shut her lie infested mouth (because she was also making up other things), then almost all of my class said "YEAH, GO HOME!" to her and she stuck her finger up at me and then someone was forcing her to apologise to me and i said "I dont want her apology" and then people told her to **** off and she left the school and never came back


last year i spoke to her because i thought she would have changed but she didnt... after about 2 weeks of listening to her twisted lies i realised i dont hate her, but i dont like her, shes nothing to me

[Zack]

Haha. I'm from México and i'm new in all of this i'd never post in some other place on the web (so, sorry if i'm not doing rigth), and i was searching for, someplace to say something like this, i even searching for places to contact Amy, and say her this and i found it, AT LAST!!!.... I just hope someday she read this...
In my most saddest moments and even in my happiest moments, Evanescence and Amy's songs have always been there, it's means a lot for me, really, more in this moments, i'm having a really hard time with my family and friends (as all of the guys that have been posted) and the open door and the other songs, it's helping me to find out a way to put out all of the sadness, sickness and frustation, and most of all to realize that i'm not alone in all of this, like it's says in like you "no matter what they told you, you'r not alone" and it's right, i'm not alone, i got me, it sounds weard, but it's truth, when you don't have no one, who's left?? you, has been hard but i'm here and that what's matters... i just want to thank to Amy and the band for all of this, without them probably i wasn´t here... Thank you!!!... really!!!! (I apoologyse if i don't explain myself... my english it's not so good)

that was fine, i can understand what youre saying, its so good that you get something out of Evanescence's Lyrics and music

[Luminescence]

Evanescence have helped and inspired me in many ways.

Ben's guitar music helped me take guitar lessons, it was fun, Amy and her lyrics inspired me to write, acually most of my songs are slightly ripped off of the band, but then I take my guitar and make it my own :rolleyes:

The songs: Solitude(my theme, i like to call it), Away From Me, Missing, BMTL, ATILF, Understanding, Ascension Of The Spirit, Eternal, Even In Death, I Must Be dreaming (I can go on forever ya know ;)) made me get through things :) hurtful, heartfelt, angry things...

the song that really helped me though some of my life experiances was( hope I'm not mualled after this) 'You', it helped me alot, but once i knew about the song I gave it up, It was so hard to give it up T____T *cries*
I still know the lyrics, LOL....but that song sure helped me through a very big and tall wall in my life.....Solitude is anotherr song that helped me through alot just like 'You' and I hate myself for keeping that song so close to me D;

I thank Evanescence for giving us all these songs! Thanks guys! *glomps*

Omar~

[follylane]

I worship Amy Lee. All I think about is Amy Lee. I wear clothes from Hot Topic just so I can look like Amy Lee. I grow out my hair and then dye it so people will think I look like Amy Lee, therefore I am Amy Lee. Because of Amy Lee and my obsession thereof, I have nothing original about me.

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[carorlz]

in soooooooooo many ways .
I just can't say how much!

[Smiles_like_summer]

I can say that when i'm in a mood i don't want to be in(sad or just fustrated) i listent to Ev ballads or Tourniquet and i write at the sametime i usually do that with any song off of any CD i have that is as my mood:) .I don't call myself a poet but i should 'cause all i do is write peotry.I mean it comes naturally.And the song 'Hello' just made me write a poem out of nowhere.As Amy was singing the words i replied like if she was talking to me,like she was going to read what i have to say in return.I get inspired alot,so thank you for making meaningful music,Amy.You're really talented!:D And so is Terry.
Rock on!:cool:

[Goddess_Of_Imaginary_Lite]

Anytime I'm upset or worried or just in a bad mood, i listen to evanescence and Amy's voice makes me feel so much happier.

I'm so thankful for evanescence <3

[shinobe777]

How has EV (Amy) helped me? wow. So many ways...

Couldn't take the blame.
Sick with shame.
Must be exhausting to lose your own game.
Selfishly hated,
No wonder you're jaded.
You can't play the victim this time,
And you're too late.

There is much in this single song for me. (CMWYS) Had to play the "blame", "shame" & "guilt" game w/ my X-gf and it really sucked. I was ALWAYS the one who needed to change. The one who was hurting her. The one who caused her ALL her pain.

So I
had to change.

EV's lyrics creep me out because they speak so eloquently of my broken soul.

To be always blamed as "THE PROBLEM" really hurts & ticks me off.
Then
Amy writes these words....
these words that sing my tortured victum soul TO the one who was my pain, my accusor.

Then EV puts out the video for this song. Good grief. Some how, she shows how a victim appears even more a victim to an alcoholic manipulative individual by simply what they "wear", how the victim "speaks", how the victim "acts".

Black, Red, Yellow - these colors in nature indicate "death" because the creatures (inspects, others) that are these colors are dangerous and even deadly - i.e. hornets are Red, Yellow Jackets - yellow & black.

Well, to the controlling, manipulative alcoholic (CMA), these "signs" of resistence are turn-ons. The CMA sees these signs as challenges and aggressively attempts to dominate the victim.

Finally, the ending. I love. "I've made up your mind."
Just love it. Victim takes control of abuser and kicks them out!

Oh, don't know if you know:
Alcoholism is more than liquor: It's being drunk on something: (power over others, dispondent to others needs or desires, drunkn on self, ...)

And physical abuse ain't far behind.

EV's lyrics & music really sing my tortured soul..... beautifully;

[shinobe777]

I worship Amy Lee. All I think about is Amy Lee. I wear clothes from Hot Topic just so I can look like Amy Lee. I grow out my hair and then dye it so people will think I look like Amy Lee, therefore I am Amy Lee. Because of Amy Lee and my obsession thereof, I have nothing original about me.

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ha, ha, ha... :D I think what you've said is humorous. You brought a smile to my face. Keep the image but find your originality. Amy's an original. She prides herself on that. You're an original too. You'll soon see.

[Jaded_Whisper]

Amy inspired me to let out my inner bitch. Thanks Amy!

[shinobe777]

Amy inspired me to let out my inner bitch. Thanks Amy!

ha, ha, ha, ha...:p :p

I still hope your nice whilest beating thine accusor... ;)

[_crimson_regret_]

my best friend in the world/ex-grilfriend/grl that i was still in luv w/ was murdered when her dad lost his mind. he killed himself & her mom 2. i m a grl (i'm bi) last yr this grl & me came outta the closet 2gether & her conservative dad flipped. her mom thought it was just a 'phase' i nevr told her how much i still luved her or how much she had helped me when my 1st bf dumped me (b4 her) i was gonna kill myself & she was my only reason 2 live at that point. i wish i could have told her, but no...i have dealt w/ a lot of loneliness/stress/guilt/insomnia/broken-heartedness/deep deep DEEP depression. this grl luved ev as much as i do & she luved the music & amy & the lyrics especially. once more, i would have taken my own life, but rly, amy saved my life. b/c she has endured so much & is still a strong, successful, beautiful woman. her words can mean a ton of things & knowing even w/out the 1 person i have truly luved w/ all my heart, i am not alone. the songs about amy's sister hit rly close 2 home...

thanx amy

[Trina Segelbaum]

Amy has helped me in alot of ways!! I was born with A.D.H.D, and F.A.S.D, and I was never able to get passed written work in school. Amy inspired me because, she has had to face alot of challenges in her life, and has overcome alot of them, and never gave up, and whatever she has had to go through, only has made her into a stronger person!! She has made me see, that whatever obsticle, or if whatever challenge I have to face, I to can over come it and only become a better, and stronger person!!Not to long ago as well, all the surgery's I have had to under go, I was always seeing all the negative sides of it all, and seeing Amy doing all that she does, and all the differences she makes, I to can change my life into a possitive thing, and do all that I can do, even if I do have metal through out my entire spine!! Amy only makes me want to try harder, and fight even harder, and never give up!! Going to see Amy and Ev inconcert, even though I new I was going to be in alot of pain the next day, It was all worth it, because Ev gave me such a memorie, that words can't even describe!! I have never been to a concert before, because of my back, it was always to high risk, But I'm SO very glad I was able to see Ev for the very first time!!:D ;) Thank You SO Very Much Ev, I can never thank you enough, for giving me that gift, seeing you in concert!!!:) :D ;) :p :§cool:

[Zack]

Going Under was the big thing that hit me, i was in a place where i was backed up against a wall and had no way out and after listening to this song for the first time (i mean the lyrics, ive listened to it many times) i started not to back down for anything and i got myself out of that place.

the words that struck me were

DONT WANT YOUR HAND THIS TIME, ILL SAVE MYSELF
MAYBE ILL WAKE UP FOR ONCE
NOT TOURMENTED DAILY, DEFEATED BY YOU
JUST WHEN I THOUGHT I REACHED THE BOTTOM

she has also helped me through the death of many people in my family, and im sure she will help me when my mum dies.

[sewn_together]

She definitely has said everything that I as a writer wish I could have penned at the moment I was feeling it, I guess she just has such a good idea of how to poetically express that emotion, and though I'd like to say I do too, she just is sooo much better at it haha I have a lot to learn. Fallen really came into my life at a time where, like Amy, but in different ways, I felt trapped and manipulated and betrayed on all sides, maybe not in the ways she did but more mentally. And now 3 years later I have definitely matured, too, like Amy and the new record really says all I feel at the moment, like, "Okay, you've shoved your foot down my throat for so damn long, and now I'm spitting you out with nothing but a bruised pride. I'm done with me then, this is me now, get the hell out of here." And especially in "Sweet Sacrifice," "Good Enough," and "Lacrymosa," she's really expressed my feelings of rebirth and willingness to accept my flaw and good quality.

Amy Lee is the best lyricist ever, she's done so much for me as a human being, and I hope she reads these threads and understands how powerful she is, especially without Ben and all of her 'chains'... she's responsible for helping so many and it's all through song. God, I hope she hits the US again so I can actually maybe meet her... and personally thank her. *teary eyed* Much love to you Amy from the bottom of my heart.
i totally agree. ha

[Adam X]

Not really inspired but I love her music and find her voice to be one of the most soothing things in my life.

I also share a love of her with the most important person in my life right now and who happens to look almost indentical to Amy in every way.

[Charlie]

Well, I used to be bullied a lot, I guess all over primary school a bit, in 7th and 8th grade a LOT. Then I listened Ev, and I got to listen more bands and all, and I changed quite a bit. I got social skill training, so actually Ev kind of set things in motion wich could not be stopped (I think such a quote had been said in a few movies, no? :/ ), I changed so damn much in one year, it's unbelieveble. The bullying stopped. And some of Amy's quotes got me to think a lot in a different way when I had a down time a few months ago. In time, I started to feel better.
I feel better when I listen to the music, and I can relate to quite some songs. It's as if there is always someone willing to listen, even though they're not here. But the music will "listen" ^^

My story is almost scarily similar to yours! I, too, changed so much in one year - or even just that one summer, really... and I'm not bullied anymore. I can be free to be me. Which I've had to learn all over again, and am still learning.. for one thing, trying to realize and accept both the flaws and the qualities that I have. Most people in my social environment think that everyone knows what they're good at but tend to leave out the flaws. I, however, have a harder time figuring out the qualities, and have a chronic tendency to focus too much on the flaws o_O So yeah.. one of many things I am still learning.

But there's so much that I have finally let go, and so many new doors that I opened since I started listening to Ev (followed by many other bands)... it's ****ing unbelievable when I think back to it. How much the zeros and ones on a plastic disc can do. They introduced me to some amazing people that kicked me into gear for that motion you described Shari.