Evanescence
Evanescence
Evanescence
Evanescence
Evanescence
Evanescence
Evanescence
Evanescence
Evanescence
Evanescence
Evanescence
Evanescence
Evanescence
Evanescence
Evanescence
Evanescence
Evanescence
Released as a bonus track on Evanescence’s self-titled album, “New Way to Bleed” is about the band’s former record label Wind-Up “not getting what we were doing.”
It’s one of the three songs on the album to include harp.
[Verse 1]
Serve your twisted enemy
So you might earn forgiveness
You know your whole world is waiting
So why can’t you speak?
[Chorus]
I feel it coming over me
I’m still a slave to these dreams
Is this the end of everything?
Or just a new way to bleed?
[Verse 2]
So go and tell all your friends
That I’m a failure underneath
If it makes you feel like a bigger man
But it’s my, my heart, my life
That you're calling a lie
I’ve played this game before
And I can’t take anymore
[Chorus]
I feel it coming over me
I’m still a slave to these dreams
Is this the end of everything?
Or just a new way to bleed?
[Bridge]
By drifting far beyond the edge
Freedom, freedom
Can’t you feel the ground caving in?
Freedom
Give us a reason to believe again
[Chorus]
I feel it coming over me
I’m still a slave to these dreams
Is this the end of everything?
Or just a new way to bleed?
A New Way To Bleed was written by Terry Balsamo & Amy Lee.
A New Way To Bleed was produced by Nick Raskulinecz.
Evanescence released A New Way To Bleed on Tue Oct 11 2011.
Not at all. Amy Lee cited Björk, Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, MGMT, and Portishead as influences to Evanescence’s third album.
Source 1 and 2
In a Rockline Radio interview in 2011, Amy Lee was asked what was the inspiration behind the song and she said:
That was a song that Terry and I worked on together about a year ago. I think that song is the closest to sort of our moment from The Open Door. It’s hard to explain without pissing peopl...