“The Other Side” is track #5 on Evanescence’s self-titled record. The song is about loss, but not about mourning whereas the person longs to be together again with the loved one.
In an interview with NME, Amy Lee said:
It’s about loss, but not so much mourning for the dead as much as comitting you...
[Verse 1]
Make me whole again
Open your eyes
Taunted by the shadows of your light
Cold and far away
Like you're not even mine
Undo everything and take me higher
[Pre-Chorus 1]
Never believing what they say cause I'm
[Chorus]
Counting the days to meet you on the other side
I will always be waiting
Until the day that I see you on the other side
Come and take me home
[Verse 2]
I'm not giving in
I want you back
Holding together by the shards of our past
Stole my heart away
I can't let you go
Break these chains and let me fly to you
[Pre-Chorus 2]
High above the world below
Over and over in my mind
[Chorus]
Counting the days to meet you on the other side
I will always be waiting
Until the day that I see you on the other side
Come and take me home
[Bridge]
I am so lost without my place inside your heart
I won't survive, I need to know you hear me
Awaken and release my love
[Chorus]
Counting the days to meet you on the other side
I will always be waiting
Until the day that I see you on the other side
Come and take me
[Chorus]
Counting the days to meet you on the other side
I will always be waiting
Until the day that I see you on the other side
Come and take me home
The Other Side was written by Tim McCord & Terry Balsamo & Amy Lee.
The Other Side was produced by Nick Raskulinecz.
Evanescence released The Other Side on Tue Oct 11 2011.
During the MTV interview in which the track was previewed, Amy Lee talked about the song saying:
I wrote it with the guys. It was real collaborative. That was a hard one for me to write the lyrics for, because I had the chorus — it’s very epic and dramatic; ‘Counting the days to meet you on the oth...