“Swimming Home” is the closing track (for the standard edition) of the band’s self-titled record. It’s the only track on the standard edition of the album to include harp. According to Amy Lee, it’s the truest picture of a creative phase in which everything was more ethereal and driven by programmin...
[Verse 1]
Way down
I’ve been way down
Underneath this skin
Waiting to hear my name again
[Chorus]
I’m sorry
Nothing can hold me
I adore you still
But I hear them calling
And nothing can hold me
[Verse 2]
Way down
(Do you really want me?)
All the way down
(Do you really want me here?)
I will hear your voice
(Do you really want me?)
But I’ll no longer understand
(But it's really not me here)
[Chorus]
I’m sorry
Nothing can hold me
I adore you still
But I hear them calling
[Bridge]
I was looking to the sky
When I knew I’d be swimming home
And I cannot betray my kind
They are here
It’s my time
[Chorus]
I’m sorry
Nothing can hold me
(Do you really want me here?)
I adore you still
But I hear them calling
(Calling)
And nothing can hold me
Swimming Home was written by Will Hunt (Drummer) & Terry Balsamo & Tim McCord & Troy McLawhorn & Amy Lee.
Swimming Home was produced by Nick Raskulinecz.
Evanescence released Swimming Home on Tue Oct 11 2011.
In a interview with Kerrang!, Lee said the song is about the acceptance of death:
It’s goodbye. It’s partly about the acceptance of death. I love that song because it’s not angry and it’s not perfectly happy. It’s sad but it’s accepting the things in life that are hard – like someone leaving this w...