Inspired by Amy Lee’s frustration with her former record label Wind-Up, “Sick” is the eighth track on Evanescence’s self-titled album. Lee said the following:
Honestly, it was at a time I was sort of like frustrated creatively and in a place where I seriously felt misunderstood by the record label...
[Verse 1]
Embrace the silence
Cause there's nothing
That can change the way I feel
Taken all that you wanted
Now there's nothing
That can change the way I feel
[Pre-Chorus]
Hold on, little girl
The end is soon to come
[Chorus]
Sick of it all, sick of it all
We will not follow
Sick of it all, sick of it all
They don't understand how
Sick we are, sick we are
Of this bottomless
Pit of lies
Behind closed eyes
[Verse 2]
Oceans between us
And there's nothing
That can change the way I feel
I can still taste the poison
Of every thought
Every breath I wasted here
[Pre-Chorus]
Hold on, little girl
The end is soon to come
[Chorus]
Sick of it all, sick of it all
We will not follow
Sick of it all, sick of it all
They don't understand how
Sick we are, sick we are
Of this bottomless
Pit of lies
Behind closed eyes
[Verse 3]
Someday you'll know the pain
Someday the light will break through
And nothing you tell yourself
Will save us from the truth
Screaming out
[Chorus]
Sick of it all, sick of it all
We will not follow
Sick of it all, sick of it all
They don't understand how
Sick we are, sick we are
Of this bottomless
Pit of lies
Behind closed eyes
Sick was written by Will Hunt (Drummer) & Will Hunt & Tim McCord & Terry Balsamo & Amy Lee.
Sick was produced by Nick Raskulinecz.
Evanescence released Sick on Tue Oct 11 2011.
Lee discussed the writing of the song on a NME track-by-track interview in 2011:
“Sick” is the song that was one of the first one we came up with when we had like a band jam session, about a year ago. And I don’t know, we were really excited about it right away. Sometimes you get in a room with a g...