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 The song was released as a promotional single to coincide with the album's pre-order on December 4, 2020.<ref name="preorder" /> On Spotify, it was released as a four-song EP titled ''Songs From The Bitter Truth'', including the three previously released singles.

EternalRemorse at 12:36, 1 May 2025

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	[[Category:The Bitter Truth songs]]		[[Category:The Bitter Truth songs]]
	[[Category:Evanescence (album) outtakes]]		[[Category:Evanescence (album) outtakes]]
	~~[[Category:Singles]]~~

EternalRemorse: /* Video */

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Video

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	More than it was worth to sell our souls…<br>		More than it was worth to sell our souls…<br>

	==Video==		==Music Video==
	The music video was released on December 31, 2023. Directed and edited by Eric Richter, it was shot in their 2023 South American tour in support of ''The Bitter Truth''.		The music video was released on December 31, 2023. Directed and edited by Eric Richter, it was shot in their 2023 South American tour in support of ''The Bitter Truth''.

Octopia: /* Lyrics */

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Lyrics

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	Happiness can be hard to find<br>		Happiness can be hard to find<br>
	I’m so slap silly happy everybody wants to take mine<br>		I’m so slap silly happy everybody wants to take mine<br>

	Yeah right<br>		Yeah right<br>
	That sounds nice<br>		That sounds nice<br>
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	Someday we’ll get paid<br>		Someday we’ll get paid<br>
	More than it was worth to sell our souls<br>		More than it was worth to sell our souls<br>
	Yeah right<br>		Yeah, yeah right<br>

	Yeah, I’m a rock star<br>		Yeah, I’m a rock star<br>
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	twist the knife hard<br>		twist the knife hard<br>
	just makes it easier to tell you I don’t need you anymore<br>		just makes it easier to tell you I don’t need you anymore<br>

	Life’s a game, till you lose- then what?<br>		Life’s a game, till you lose- then what?<br>
	I’m reaching a new level of not giving a fuck<br>		I’m reaching a new level of not giving a fuck<br>
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	That sounds nice<br>		That sounds nice<br>
	Everything we ever wanted and more<br>		Everything we ever wanted and more<br>
	Someday we’ll get paid ~~more~~ than it was worth to sell our souls<br>		Someday we’ll get paid ''(I can't wait for the day)''<br>
			More than it was worth to sell our souls<br>

	Tell me how is the real world treating you?<br>		Tell me, how is the real world treating you?<br>
	Is that my fault too?<br>		Is that my fault too?<br>
	My one mistake was giving more and more and more<br>		My one mistake was giving more and more and more<br>
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	Baby, that sounds nice<br>		Baby, that sounds nice<br>
	Everything we ever wanted and more<br>		Everything we ever wanted and more<br>
	Someday we’ll get paid<br>		Someday we’ll get paid ''(I can't wait for the day)''<br>
	More than it was worth to sell our souls, sell our souls<br>		More than it was worth to sell our souls, sell our souls<br>

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	That sounds nice<br>		That sounds nice<br>
	More than it was worth to sell our souls…<br>		More than it was worth to sell our souls…<br>


	==Video==		==Video==

Octopia at 20:15, 31 October 2024

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	''Written by: [[A. Lee]] and [[Will "Science" Hunt\|W. B. Hunt]]''		''Written by: [[A. Lee]] and [[Will "Science" Hunt\|W. B. Hunt]]''

	'''''Yeah Right''''' is the fourth track and fourth single from [[Evanescence]]'s fifth studio album, ''[[The Bitter Truth]]''. The title was registered on BMI repertoire in late June 2020.<ref name="bmi" /> It was one of the first four songs recorded for the album in early 2020.<ref name=nylon /> It was released on December 4, 2020 as a single, along with the album's pre-order.		'''''Yeah Right''''' is the fourth track and fourth single from [[Evanescence]]'s fifth studio album, ''[[The Bitter Truth]]''. The title was registered on BMI's repertoire in late June 2020.<ref name="bmi" /> It was one of the first four songs recorded for the album in early 2020.<ref name=nylon /> It was released on December 4, 2020 as a single, along with the album's pre-order.

	The song was originally recorded on the [[Evanescence (album)#The_Lillywhite_sessions_.282010.29\|2010 Lillywhite sessions]] for the band's third album, but was scrapped by their then [[Wind-Up Records\|label]], along with much of what they wrote and recorded for what would become their 2011 album, ''[[Evanescence (album)\|Evanescence]]''. Amy explained it in an Instagram post and how it was revamped with a new perspective:		The song was originally recorded on the [[Evanescence (album)#The_Lillywhite_sessions_.282010.29\|2010 Lillywhite sessions]] for the band's third album, but was scrapped by their then [[Wind-Up Records\|label]], along with much of what they wrote and recorded for what would become their 2011 album, ''[[Evanescence (album)\|Evanescence]]''. Amy explained it in an Instagram post and how it was revamped with a new perspective:
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	{{Quote\|So far, I feel like each song that we put out is a very different colour of the spectrum and there are more colours yet to come, for sure. Yeah Right has been a long time coming; I started that song a decade ago. It was mostly there, it had been at the top of the pile for a really, really long time – we’ve always had a cool pile of extra scraps and pieces of unfinished songs. That’s just one that kept on not plugging in, and then something happened this year when we got together and started playing and pulling songs together in pre-production – I was like, ‘I finally know how we can make it work!’ It’s one of those songs that we’re going to have to figure out how to do live because I don’t want to be glued to the moog the whole time. It might be a good time to whip out the keytar!<ref name="kerrangdec20" />}}		{{Quote\|So far, I feel like each song that we put out is a very different colour of the spectrum and there are more colours yet to come, for sure. Yeah Right has been a long time coming; I started that song a decade ago. It was mostly there, it had been at the top of the pile for a really, really long time – we’ve always had a cool pile of extra scraps and pieces of unfinished songs. That’s just one that kept on not plugging in, and then something happened this year when we got together and started playing and pulling songs together in pre-production – I was like, ‘I finally know how we can make it work!’ It’s one of those songs that we’re going to have to figure out how to do live because I don’t want to be glued to the moog the whole time. It might be a good time to whip out the keytar!<ref name="kerrangdec20" />}}

	According to Amy, this is a difficult song to describe and go into detail about because it touches on some elements of her past that she's moved on from, “but apparently there’s still some things that I needed to get off my chest.”<ref>Garner, George (March 10, 2021). [https://www.kerrang.com/features/i-needed-to-face-the-abyss-head-on-evanescences-bitter-truth-laid-bare/ "“I needed to face the abyss head on”: Evanescence’s Bitter Truth laid bare"]. ''Kerrang!''.</ref> The original version was very electronic and its lyrics and the way the song sounded was a "joke" and sarcastic.<ref name=":0" /> The original lyrics were self-deprecating rather than empowered.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XyyIiG4vcs "BBC World Service - 'Songwriting Made Me Who I Am' with ICE T, AURORA, AMY LEE and OLI SYKES"]. June 6, 2021. ''YouTube''.</ref> The bulk of it was written before the [[Evanescence (album)#Nick Raskulinecz sessions .282011.29\|2011 sessions]] for the self-titled album,<ref name=":0">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1294&v=6VgQDMYPhbs&feature=youtu.be "Evanescence - Amy Lee On 'The Bitter Truth', "Better Without You" & More!!!"]. April 21, 2021. ''YouTube''.</ref> being part of a scrapped album referred to as "[[Broken Record\|broken record]]" that was originally intended to be the third album.<blockquote>I wrote most of the lyrics back then, 10 years ago. And I definitely was going through a period of time where I didn't know what I wanted to do next. And I was sick of the cartoon version that was being reflected back at myself and also just feeling misunderstood on the outside and part of that has been keeping some of those dragon slaying stories to myself to rise above it and go, "okay, all right, well I'm not gonna let that drive my narrative and we're gonna move on" kind of vibe, but that song came out of a lot of just angst and frustration and a big middle finger to people that have been a part of this and tried to rip it apart.<ref name=":0" /></blockquote>In the choruses, Amy talks about getting paid, which alludes to how she has seen money change people in a negative way.<ref name=loudwire2021 />		According to Amy, this is a difficult song to describe and go into detail about because it touches on some elements of her past that she's moved on from, “but apparently there’s still some things that I needed to get off my chest.”<ref>Garner, George (March 10, 2021). [https://www.kerrang.com/features/i-needed-to-face-the-abyss-head-on-evanescences-bitter-truth-laid-bare/ "“I needed to face the abyss head on”: Evanescence’s Bitter Truth laid bare"]. ''Kerrang!''.</ref> The original version was very electronic and its lyrics and the way the song sounded was a "joke" and sarcastic.<ref name=":0" /> The original lyrics were self-deprecating rather than empowered.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XyyIiG4vcs "BBC World Service - 'Songwriting Made Me Who I Am' with ICE T, AURORA, AMY LEE and OLI SYKES"]. June 6, 2021. ''YouTube''.</ref> The bulk of it was written before the [[Evanescence (album)#Nick Raskulinecz sessions .282011.29\|2011 sessions]] for the self-titled album,<ref name=":0">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1294&v=6VgQDMYPhbs&feature=youtu.be "Evanescence - Amy Lee On 'The Bitter Truth', "Better Without You" & More!!!"]. April 21, 2021. ''YouTube''.</ref> being part of a scrapped album referred to as "[[Broken Record\|broken record]]" that was originally intended to be the third album.<blockquote>I wrote most of the lyrics back then, 10 years ago. And I definitely was going through a period of time where I didn't know what I wanted to do next. And I was sick of the cartoon version that was being reflected back at myself and also just feeling misunderstood on the outside and part of that has been keeping some of those dragon slaying stories to myself to rise above it and go, "okay, all right, well I'm not gonna let that drive my narrative and we're gonna move on" kind of vibe, but that song came out of a lot of just angst and frustration and a big middle finger to people that have been a part of this and tried to rip it apart.<ref name=":0" /></blockquote>

			In the choruses, Amy talks about getting paid, which alludes to how she has seen money change people in a negative way.<ref name=loudwire2021 />

	==Versions==		==Versions==
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	'''Yeah Right [Live]'''		'''Yeah Right [Live]'''
	*''Performing period:'' November 5, 2021; May 9 - 16, 2024		*''Performing period:'' November 5, 2021; May 9 - 16, June 14 - October 12, 2024
	*''Example:'' Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR, USA (November 5, 2021); Coliseo José Miguel Agrelot, San Juan, Puerto Rico (May 9, 2024)		*''Example:'' Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR, USA (November 5, 2021); Coliseo José Miguel Agrelot, San Juan, Puerto Rico (May 9, 2024)

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	The song was released as a promotional single to coincide with the album's pre-order on December 4, 2020.<ref name="preorder" /> On Spotify it was released as a four song EP titled ''Songs From The Bitter Truth'', including the three previously released singles.		The song was released as a promotional single to coincide with the album's pre-order on December 4, 2020.<ref name="preorder" /> On Spotify, it was released as a four-song EP titled ''Songs From The Bitter Truth'', including the three previously released singles.

	==References==		==References==

Octopia: /* Live Version */

2024-05-29T20:23:27Z

Live Version

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	'''Yeah Right [Live]'''		'''Yeah Right [Live]'''
	*''Performing period:'' November 5, 2021		*''Performing period:'' November 5, 2021; May 9 - 16, 2024
	*''Example:'' Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR, USA		*''Example:'' Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR, USA (November 5, 2021); Coliseo José Miguel Agrelot, San Juan, Puerto Rico (May 9, 2024)

	==Lyrics==		==Lyrics==

Octopia: Added music video

2024-01-01T03:16:50Z

Added music video

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	'''Yeah Right [Live]'''		'''Yeah Right [Live]'''
	*''Performing period:'' November 5, 2021 -		*''Performing period:'' November 5, 2021
	*''Example:'' Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR, USA		*''Example:'' Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR, USA

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	That sounds nice<br>		That sounds nice<br>
	More than it was worth to sell our souls…<br>		More than it was worth to sell our souls…<br>


			==Video==
			The music video was released on December 31, 2023. Directed and edited by Eric Richter, it was shot in their 2023 South American tour in support of ''The Bitter Truth''.

			A portion of the video was previewed via an Instagram post on October 18, 2023.<ref name=buenosaires>[https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyjVvZOuKjb/?igsh=MXZlejdtd20xYnNjcg== "Ok Buenos Aires. The bar has been RESET"]. ''Instagram''. October 18, 2023.</ref>

			*Watch it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ1pXOPkqdA here].

	==Commercial Release==		==Commercial Release==

Octopia at 20:29, 10 March 2023

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	''Written by: [[A. Lee]] and [[Will "Science" Hunt\|W. B. Hunt]]''		''Written by: [[A. Lee]] and [[Will "Science" Hunt\|W. B. Hunt]]''

	'''''Yeah Right''''' is the fourth track and fourth single from [[Evanescence]]'s fifth studio album, ''[[The Bitter Truth]]''. The title was registered on BMI repertoire in late June 2020.<ref name="bmi" /> It was one of the first four songs recorded for the album in early 2020. It was released on December 4, 2020 as a single, along with the album's pre-order.		'''''Yeah Right''''' is the fourth track and fourth single from [[Evanescence]]'s fifth studio album, ''[[The Bitter Truth]]''. The title was registered on BMI repertoire in late June 2020.<ref name="bmi" /> It was one of the first four songs recorded for the album in early 2020.<ref name=nylon /> It was released on December 4, 2020 as a single, along with the album's pre-order.

	The song was originally recorded on the [[Evanescence (album)#The_Lillywhite_sessions_.282010.29\|2010 Lillywhite sessions]] for the band's third album, but was scrapped by their then [[Wind-Up Records\|label]], along with much of what they wrote and recorded for what would become their 2011 album, ''[[Evanescence (album)\|Evanescence]]''. Amy explained it in an Instagram post and how it was revamped with a new perspective:		The song was originally recorded on the [[Evanescence (album)#The_Lillywhite_sessions_.282010.29\|2010 Lillywhite sessions]] for the band's third album, but was scrapped by their then [[Wind-Up Records\|label]], along with much of what they wrote and recorded for what would become their 2011 album, ''[[Evanescence (album)\|Evanescence]]''. Amy explained it in an Instagram post and how it was revamped with a new perspective:
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	{{Quote\|So far, I feel like each song that we put out is a very different colour of the spectrum and there are more colours yet to come, for sure. Yeah Right has been a long time coming; I started that song a decade ago. It was mostly there, it had been at the top of the pile for a really, really long time – we’ve always had a cool pile of extra scraps and pieces of unfinished songs. That’s just one that kept on not plugging in, and then something happened this year when we got together and started playing and pulling songs together in pre-production – I was like, ‘I finally know how we can make it work!’ It’s one of those songs that we’re going to have to figure out how to do live because I don’t want to be glued to the moog the whole time. It might be a good time to whip out the keytar!<ref name="kerrangdec20" />}}		{{Quote\|So far, I feel like each song that we put out is a very different colour of the spectrum and there are more colours yet to come, for sure. Yeah Right has been a long time coming; I started that song a decade ago. It was mostly there, it had been at the top of the pile for a really, really long time – we’ve always had a cool pile of extra scraps and pieces of unfinished songs. That’s just one that kept on not plugging in, and then something happened this year when we got together and started playing and pulling songs together in pre-production – I was like, ‘I finally know how we can make it work!’ It’s one of those songs that we’re going to have to figure out how to do live because I don’t want to be glued to the moog the whole time. It might be a good time to whip out the keytar!<ref name="kerrangdec20" />}}

	According to Amy, this is a difficult song to describe and go into detail about because it touches on some elements of her past that she's moved on from, “but apparently there’s still some things that I needed to get off my chest.”<ref>Garner, George (March 10, 2021). [https://www.kerrang.com/features/i-needed-to-face-the-abyss-head-on-evanescences-bitter-truth-laid-bare/ "“I needed to face the abyss head on”: Evanescence’s Bitter Truth laid bare"]. ''Kerrang!''.</ref> The original version was very electronic and its lyrics and the way the song sounded was a "joke" and sarcastic. The original lyrics were self-deprecating rather than empowered.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XyyIiG4vcs "BBC World Service - 'Songwriting Made Me Who I Am' with ICE T, AURORA, AMY LEE and OLI SYKES"]. June 6, 2021. ''YouTube''.</ref> The bulk of it was written before the [[Evanescence (album)#Nick Raskulinecz sessions .282011.29\|2011 sessions]] for the self-titled album,<ref name=":0">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1294&v=6VgQDMYPhbs&feature=youtu.be "Evanescence - Amy Lee On 'The Bitter Truth', "Better Without You" & More!!!"]. April 21, 2021. ''YouTube''.</ref> being part of a scrapped album referred to as "[[Broken Record\|broken record]]" that was originally intended to be the third album.<blockquote>I wrote most of the lyrics back then, 10 years ago. And I definitely was going through a period of time where I didn't know what I wanted to do next. And I was sick of the cartoon version that was being reflected back at myself and also just feeling misunderstood on the outside and part of that has been keeping some of those dragon slaying stories to myself to rise above it and go, "okay, all right, well I'm not gonna let that drive my narrative and we're gonna move on" kind of vibe, but that song came out of a lot of just angst and frustration and a big middle finger to people that have been a part of this and tried to rip it apart.<ref name=":0" /></blockquote>		According to Amy, this is a difficult song to describe and go into detail about because it touches on some elements of her past that she's moved on from, “but apparently there’s still some things that I needed to get off my chest.”<ref>Garner, George (March 10, 2021). [https://www.kerrang.com/features/i-needed-to-face-the-abyss-head-on-evanescences-bitter-truth-laid-bare/ "“I needed to face the abyss head on”: Evanescence’s Bitter Truth laid bare"]. ''Kerrang!''.</ref> The original version was very electronic and its lyrics and the way the song sounded was a "joke" and sarcastic.<ref name=":0" /> The original lyrics were self-deprecating rather than empowered.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XyyIiG4vcs "BBC World Service - 'Songwriting Made Me Who I Am' with ICE T, AURORA, AMY LEE and OLI SYKES"]. June 6, 2021. ''YouTube''.</ref> The bulk of it was written before the [[Evanescence (album)#Nick Raskulinecz sessions .282011.29\|2011 sessions]] for the self-titled album,<ref name=":0">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1294&v=6VgQDMYPhbs&feature=youtu.be "Evanescence - Amy Lee On 'The Bitter Truth', "Better Without You" & More!!!"]. April 21, 2021. ''YouTube''.</ref> being part of a scrapped album referred to as "[[Broken Record\|broken record]]" that was originally intended to be the third album.<blockquote>I wrote most of the lyrics back then, 10 years ago. And I definitely was going through a period of time where I didn't know what I wanted to do next. And I was sick of the cartoon version that was being reflected back at myself and also just feeling misunderstood on the outside and part of that has been keeping some of those dragon slaying stories to myself to rise above it and go, "okay, all right, well I'm not gonna let that drive my narrative and we're gonna move on" kind of vibe, but that song came out of a lot of just angst and frustration and a big middle finger to people that have been a part of this and tried to rip it apart.<ref name=":0" /></blockquote>In the choruses, Amy talks about getting paid, which alludes to how she has seen money change people in a negative way.<ref name=loudwire2021 />

	==Versions==		==Versions==
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	'''Yeah Right [Lillywhite sessions]'''<ref name="lillywhite" />		'''Yeah Right [Lillywhite sessions]'''<ref name="lillywhite" />
	*''Recording date:'' February - April 2010		*''Recording date:'' February 22 - April 2010
	*''Status:'' Unreleased		*''Status:'' Unreleased
			*''Released On:'' ''[[Broken Record]]'' <small>(scrapped)</small>

	===Live Version===		===Live Version===
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	Yeah right<br>		Yeah right<br>
	Baby that sounds nice<br>		Baby, that sounds nice<br>
	Everything we ever wanted and more<br>		Everything we ever wanted and more<br>
	Someday we’ll get paid<br>		Someday we’ll get paid<br>
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	<ref name="tweet2">{{cite web\|last=Lee\|first=Amy\|title=2/2 ...But real life is rarely...\|url=https://twitter.com/AmyLeeEV/status/1335262176144216064\|work=Twitter\|date=December 5, 2020}}</ref>		<ref name="tweet2">{{cite web\|last=Lee\|first=Amy\|title=2/2 ...But real life is rarely...\|url=https://twitter.com/AmyLeeEV/status/1335262176144216064\|work=Twitter\|date=December 5, 2020}}</ref>

	<ref name="kerrangdec20">{{cite web\|last=Garner\|first=George\|title=Evanescence’s Amy Lee: “I have total hope… but it’s important to be ready to fight when it’s time”\|url=https://www.kerrang.com/features/evanescence-amy-lee-my-year-2020/\|work=Kerrang!\|date=December 22, 2020}}</ref>		<ref name="kerrangdec20">{{cite web\|last=Garner\|first=George\|title=Evanescence’s Amy Lee: “I have total hope… but it’s important to be ready to fight when it’s time”\|url=https://www.kerrang.com/features/evanescence-amy-lee-my-year-2020/\|work=Kerrang!\|date=December 22, 2020\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201223194916/https://www.kerrang.com/features/evanescence-amy-lee-my-year-2020/\|archivedate=December 23, 2020}}</ref>

	<ref name="preorder">{{cite web\|title=Evanescence Debut New Song, Announce Album Release Date\|url=https://www.revolvermag.com/music/evanescence-debut-new-song-announce-album-release-date\|date=December 4, 2020\|work=Revolver}}</ref>		<ref name="preorder">{{cite web\|title=Evanescence Debut New Song, Announce Album Release Date\|url=https://www.revolvermag.com/music/evanescence-debut-new-song-announce-album-release-date\|date=December 4, 2020\|work=Revolver}}</ref>

			<ref name=loudwire2021>{{cite web\|last=Schaffner\|first=Lauryn\|title=The Tragedies That Inspired Evanescence's 'The Bitter Truth'\|url=https://loudwire.com/evanescence-amy-lee-interview-tragedies-inspired-the-bitter-truth-lyrics/\|date=May 10, 2021\|work=Loudwire}}</ref>

			<ref name=nylon>{{cite news\|last=McCarthy\|first=Lauren\|url=https://www.nylon.com/entertainment/evanescence-amy-lee-2020-interview\|title=Evanescence's Amy Lee On New Music And What 'Goth' Really Means\|date=June 23, 2020\|work=NYLON}}</ref>

	}}		}}

EternalRemorse: /* General Information */

2022-05-08T12:33:42Z

General Information

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	{{Quote\|So far, I feel like each song that we put out is a very different colour of the spectrum and there are more colours yet to come, for sure. Yeah Right has been a long time coming; I started that song a decade ago. It was mostly there, it had been at the top of the pile for a really, really long time – we’ve always had a cool pile of extra scraps and pieces of unfinished songs. That’s just one that kept on not plugging in, and then something happened this year when we got together and started playing and pulling songs together in pre-production – I was like, ‘I finally know how we can make it work!’ It’s one of those songs that we’re going to have to figure out how to do live because I don’t want to be glued to the moog the whole time. It might be a good time to whip out the keytar!<ref name="kerrangdec20" />}}		{{Quote\|So far, I feel like each song that we put out is a very different colour of the spectrum and there are more colours yet to come, for sure. Yeah Right has been a long time coming; I started that song a decade ago. It was mostly there, it had been at the top of the pile for a really, really long time – we’ve always had a cool pile of extra scraps and pieces of unfinished songs. That’s just one that kept on not plugging in, and then something happened this year when we got together and started playing and pulling songs together in pre-production – I was like, ‘I finally know how we can make it work!’ It’s one of those songs that we’re going to have to figure out how to do live because I don’t want to be glued to the moog the whole time. It might be a good time to whip out the keytar!<ref name="kerrangdec20" />}}
	According to Amy, this is a difficult song to describe and go into detail about because it touches on some elements of her past that she's moved on, “but apparently there’s still some things that I needed to get off my chest.”<ref>Garner, George (March 10, 2021). [https://www.kerrang.com/features/i-needed-to-face-the-abyss-head-on-evanescences-bitter-truth-laid-bare/ "“I needed to face the abyss head on”: Evanescence’s Bitter Truth laid bare"]. ''Kerrang!''.</ref> The original version was very electronic and its lyrics and the way the song sounded was a "joke" and sarcastic. The original lyrics were self-deprecating rather than empowered.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XyyIiG4vcs "BBC World Service - 'Songwriting Made Me Who I Am' with ICE T, AURORA, AMY LEE and OLI SYKES"]. June 6, 2021. ''YouTube''.</ref> The bulk of it was written before the [[Evanescence (album)#Nick Raskulinecz sessions .282011.29\|2011 sessions]] for the self-titled album,<ref name=":0">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1294&v=6VgQDMYPhbs&feature=youtu.be "Evanescence - Amy Lee On 'The Bitter Truth', "Better Without You" & More!!!"]. April 21, 2021. ''YouTube''.</ref> being part of a scrapped album referred to as "[[Broken Record\|broken record]]" that was originally intended to be the third album.<blockquote>I wrote most of the lyrics back then, 10 years ago. And I definitely was going through a period of time where I didn't know what I wanted to do next. And I was sick of the cartoon version that was being reflected back at myself and also just feeling misunderstood on the outside and part of that has been keeping some of those dragon slaying stories to myself to rise above it and go, "okay, all right, well I'm not gonna let that drive my narrative and we're gonna move on" kind of vibe, but that song came out of a lot of just angst and frustration and a big middle finger to people that have been a part of this and tried to rip it apart.<ref name=":0" /></blockquote>
			According to Amy, this is a difficult song to describe and go into detail about because it touches on some elements of her past that she's moved on from, “but apparently there’s still some things that I needed to get off my chest.”<ref>Garner, George (March 10, 2021). [https://www.kerrang.com/features/i-needed-to-face-the-abyss-head-on-evanescences-bitter-truth-laid-bare/ "“I needed to face the abyss head on”: Evanescence’s Bitter Truth laid bare"]. ''Kerrang!''.</ref> The original version was very electronic and its lyrics and the way the song sounded was a "joke" and sarcastic. The original lyrics were self-deprecating rather than empowered.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XyyIiG4vcs "BBC World Service - 'Songwriting Made Me Who I Am' with ICE T, AURORA, AMY LEE and OLI SYKES"]. June 6, 2021. ''YouTube''.</ref> The bulk of it was written before the [[Evanescence (album)#Nick Raskulinecz sessions .282011.29\|2011 sessions]] for the self-titled album,<ref name=":0">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1294&v=6VgQDMYPhbs&feature=youtu.be "Evanescence - Amy Lee On 'The Bitter Truth', "Better Without You" & More!!!"]. April 21, 2021. ''YouTube''.</ref> being part of a scrapped album referred to as "[[Broken Record\|broken record]]" that was originally intended to be the third album.<blockquote>I wrote most of the lyrics back then, 10 years ago. And I definitely was going through a period of time where I didn't know what I wanted to do next. And I was sick of the cartoon version that was being reflected back at myself and also just feeling misunderstood on the outside and part of that has been keeping some of those dragon slaying stories to myself to rise above it and go, "okay, all right, well I'm not gonna let that drive my narrative and we're gonna move on" kind of vibe, but that song came out of a lot of just angst and frustration and a big middle finger to people that have been a part of this and tried to rip it apart.<ref name=":0" /></blockquote>

	==Versions==		==Versions==

Octopia: Live version

2021-11-06T14:05:25Z

Live version

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	{{Quote\|So far, I feel like each song that we put out is a very different colour of the spectrum and there are more colours yet to come, for sure. Yeah Right has been a long time coming; I started that song a decade ago. It was mostly there, it had been at the top of the pile for a really, really long time – we’ve always had a cool pile of extra scraps and pieces of unfinished songs. That’s just one that kept on not plugging in, and then something happened this year when we got together and started playing and pulling songs together in pre-production – I was like, ‘I finally know how we can make it work!’ It’s one of those songs that we’re going to have to figure out how to do live because I don’t want to be glued to the moog the whole time. It might be a good time to whip out the keytar!<ref name="kerrangdec20" />}}		{{Quote\|So far, I feel like each song that we put out is a very different colour of the spectrum and there are more colours yet to come, for sure. Yeah Right has been a long time coming; I started that song a decade ago. It was mostly there, it had been at the top of the pile for a really, really long time – we’ve always had a cool pile of extra scraps and pieces of unfinished songs. That’s just one that kept on not plugging in, and then something happened this year when we got together and started playing and pulling songs together in pre-production – I was like, ‘I finally know how we can make it work!’ It’s one of those songs that we’re going to have to figure out how to do live because I don’t want to be glued to the moog the whole time. It might be a good time to whip out the keytar!<ref name="kerrangdec20" />}}
	According to Amy, this is a difficult song to describe and go into detail about because it touches on some elements of her past that she's moved on, “but apparently there’s still some things that I needed to get off my chest.”<ref>Garner, George (March 10, 2021). [https://www.kerrang.com/features/i-needed-to-face-the-abyss-head-on-evanescences-bitter-truth-laid-bare/ "“I needed to face the abyss head on”: Evanescence’s Bitter Truth laid bare"]. ''Kerrang!''.</ref> The original version was very electronic and its lyrics and the way the song sounded was a "joke" and sarcastic. The original lyrics were self-deprecating rather than empowered.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XyyIiG4vcs "BBC World Service - 'Songwriting Made Me Who I Am' with ICE T, AURORA, AMY LEE and OLI SYKES"]. June 6, 2021. ''YouTube''.</ref> The bulk of it was written before the [[Evanescence (album)#Nick Raskulinecz sessions .282011.29\|2011 sessions]] for the self-titled album,<ref name=":0">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1294&v=6VgQDMYPhbs&feature=youtu.be "Evanescence - Amy Lee On 'The Bitter Truth', "Better Without You" & More!!!"]. April 21, 2021. ''YouTube''.</ref> being part of a scrapped album referred to as "broken record" that was originally intended to be the third album.<blockquote>I wrote most of the lyrics back then, 10 years ago. And I definitely was going through a period of time where I didn't know what I wanted to do next. And I was sick of the cartoon version that was being reflected back at myself and also just feeling misunderstood on the outside and part of that has been keeping some of those dragon slaying stories to myself to rise above it and go, "okay, all right, well I'm not gonna let that drive my narrative and we're gonna move on" kind of vibe, but that song came out of a lot of just angst and frustration and a big middle finger to people that have been a part of this and tried to rip it apart.<ref name=":0" /></blockquote>		According to Amy, this is a difficult song to describe and go into detail about because it touches on some elements of her past that she's moved on, “but apparently there’s still some things that I needed to get off my chest.”<ref>Garner, George (March 10, 2021). [https://www.kerrang.com/features/i-needed-to-face-the-abyss-head-on-evanescences-bitter-truth-laid-bare/ "“I needed to face the abyss head on”: Evanescence’s Bitter Truth laid bare"]. ''Kerrang!''.</ref> The original version was very electronic and its lyrics and the way the song sounded was a "joke" and sarcastic. The original lyrics were self-deprecating rather than empowered.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XyyIiG4vcs "BBC World Service - 'Songwriting Made Me Who I Am' with ICE T, AURORA, AMY LEE and OLI SYKES"]. June 6, 2021. ''YouTube''.</ref> The bulk of it was written before the [[Evanescence (album)#Nick Raskulinecz sessions .282011.29\|2011 sessions]] for the self-titled album,<ref name=":0">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1294&v=6VgQDMYPhbs&feature=youtu.be "Evanescence - Amy Lee On 'The Bitter Truth', "Better Without You" & More!!!"]. April 21, 2021. ''YouTube''.</ref> being part of a scrapped album referred to as "[[Broken Record\|broken record]]" that was originally intended to be the third album.<blockquote>I wrote most of the lyrics back then, 10 years ago. And I definitely was going through a period of time where I didn't know what I wanted to do next. And I was sick of the cartoon version that was being reflected back at myself and also just feeling misunderstood on the outside and part of that has been keeping some of those dragon slaying stories to myself to rise above it and go, "okay, all right, well I'm not gonna let that drive my narrative and we're gonna move on" kind of vibe, but that song came out of a lot of just angst and frustration and a big middle finger to people that have been a part of this and tried to rip it apart.<ref name=":0" /></blockquote>

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	*''Recording date:'' February - April 2010		*''Recording date:'' February - April 2010
	*''Status:'' Unreleased		*''Status:'' Unreleased

			===Live Version===

			'''Yeah Right [Live]'''
			*''Performing period:'' November 5, 2021 -
			*''Example:'' Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR, USA

	==Lyrics==		==Lyrics==
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	of the first little flower on the brightest patch of snow<br>		of the first little flower on the brightest patch of snow<br>
	Happiness can be hard to find<br>		Happiness can be hard to find<br>
	I’m so slap silly happy everybody wants to take mine~~<br>~~<br>		I’m so slap silly happy everybody wants to take mine<br>

	Yeah right<br>		Yeah right<br>
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	Someday we’ll get paid<br>		Someday we’ll get paid<br>
	More than it was worth to sell our souls<br>		More than it was worth to sell our souls<br>
	Yeah right~~<br>~~<br>		Yeah right<br>

	Yeah I’m a rock star<br>		Yeah, I’m a rock star<br>
	I’m a queen resurrected just as messed up as before<br>		I’m a queen resurrected just as messed up as before<br>
	twist the knife hard<br>		twist the knife hard<br>
	just makes it easier to tell you I don’t need you anymore~~<br>~~<br>		just makes it easier to tell you I don’t need you anymore<br>

	Life’s a game, till you lose- then what?<br>		Life’s a game, till you lose- then what?<br>
	I’m reaching a new level of not giving a fuck~~<br>~~<br>		I’m reaching a new level of not giving a fuck<br>

	Yeah right<br>		Yeah right<br>
	That sounds nice<br>		That sounds nice<br>
	Everything we ever wanted and more<br>		Everything we ever wanted and more<br>
	Someday we’ll get paid more than it was worth to sell our souls~~<br>~~<br>		Someday we’ll get paid more than it was worth to sell our souls<br>

	Tell me how is the real world treating you?<br>		Tell me how is the real world treating you?<br>
	Is that my fault too?<br>		Is that my fault too?<br>
	My one mistake was giving more and more and more~~<br>~~<br>		My one mistake was giving more and more and more<br>

	More and more and more, hey yeah~~<br>~~<br>		More and more and more, hey yeah<br>

	Yeah right<br>		Yeah right<br>
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	Everything we ever wanted and more<br>		Everything we ever wanted and more<br>
	Someday we’ll get paid<br>		Someday we’ll get paid<br>
	More than it was worth to sell our souls, sell our souls~~<br>~~<br>		More than it was worth to sell our souls, sell our souls<br>

	Yeah right<br>		Yeah right<br>