“Exodus” is a song recorded by Evanescence for their first, self-titled EP released in 1998.
The live performance from May 7th, 1999 features lyrics from “Missing” at the end, and the song features a guitar in the beginning.
[Verse 1]
My black backpack's stuffed with broken dreams
20 bucks should get me through the week
Never said a word of discontentment
Fought it a thousand times but now
I'm leaving home
[Chorus]
Here in the shadows
I'm safe
I'm free
I've nowhere else to go but
I cannot stay where I don't belong
[Verse 2]
Two months pass by and it's getting cold
I know I'm not lost
I am just alone
But I won't cry
I won't give up
I can't go back now
Waking up is knowing who you really are
[Chorus]
Here in the shadows
I'm safe
I'm free
I've nowhere else to go but
I cannot stay where I don't belong
[Outro]
Show me the shadow where true meaning lies
So much more dismay in empty eyes
Exodus was produced by Ben Moody.
Evanescence released Exodus on Tue Dec 29 1998.
It’s just hard because you’re your own worst critic and I hear myself say “my black backpack stuffed with broken dreams” and want to shoot myself. I seriously can’t listen to the verses to that song without squinting. But I don’t deny that there was a magic in those early songs. Each one was so exci...