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== General Information ==
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== General information ==
''Written by: [[A. Lee]], [[T. Balsamo]]''


Written by: ''A. Lee, T. Balsamo''
'''''Cloud Nine''''' is the fifth track from [[Evanescence]]'s second studio album, ''[[The Open Door]]''. It is described as a song which "could find a home in a Tim Burton movie" in an article.<ref name="canadacom" /> In an interview in Australia, Amy said that this was the hardest song to sing from the album.<ref name=youtube1 />


'''The Open Door:''' Track 5<br>
Amy's description of the song:
<BR><BR>An article describes it as "diving into the soundtrack of a dark movie, with Amy’s mumbling and singing that lightens us up. The very gloomy atmosphere lasts throughout the whole song. DJ Lethal’s samples once again perfectly match with the song."<BR><BR>


Described as the "poppiest" track on the album.
{{quote|''It's about breaking up. There are a lot of relationship struggles on the record. I always write about what I was feeling, because then it's genuine. I was struggling with a relationship and felt like a waste of space. The first lyric says it all, 'If you want to live, let live/ If you want to go, let go/ What are we doing here?/ Because I can live without you.'''<ref name="lyrics" group=note /><ref name=vh1 />}}


Amy description of the song (off a VH1 interview) -
Terry talked about how they recorded the song:
"A vocal tour de force, using strings, studio effects and Lee's own layered moaning.
It's about breaking up. There are a lot of relationship struggles on the record. I always write about what I was feeling, because then it's genuine. I was struggling with a relationship and felt like a waste of space. The first lyric says it all, 'If you want to live, let live/ If you want to go, let go/ What are we doing here?/ Because I can live without you.'"


== Lyrics ==
{{quote|''If it’s something like the song ''Cloud Nine,'' we got a cool drum beat that we liked. Then she came up with a vocal melody. It was cool because I just took the bass and started writing the bass line to the actual vocal melody. That was something different that I had never really done. We never really had any set way. If there was an idea, we would just do whatever we could to move forward with it.''<ref name=guitar9 />}}
If you want to live, let live<BR>
 
If you want to go, let go<BR>
The song was added to the setlist to support ''The Open Door'' in 2006-07. It was later played at the [[New York Secret Show 2009|NYC Secret Show]] on November 4, 2009.<ref name=nycsecret /> It was played for the last time at the [[Maquinaria Festival 2009|Maquinária Festival]] in Brazil on November 8, 2009. It was brought back to the setlist as part of a medley in 2019 and 2023.
I'm not afraid to dream- to sleep, sleep forever<BR>
 
==Versions==
===Studio Versions===
 
'''Cloud Nine'''
*''Recording date:'' September 2005 - March 2006
*''Status:'' Released
*''Released on:'' ''[[The Open Door]]'' (track #5)
*''Length:'' 4:22
 
 
===Live Versions===
 
'''Cloud Nine [Live]'''
*''Performing period:'' January 5 - August 24, 2007, November 4 - 8, 2009
*''Status:'' Unreleased
*''Example:'' Centre Bell, Montreal, Canada (January 5, 2007)
 
'''Cloud Nine [Live 2019 Medley]'''<ref>This version was played as a medley along with [[Haunted]], [[My Last Breath]], [[Everybody's Fool]], [[Weight of the World]] and [[Snow White Queen]] at the encore.</ref>
*''Performing period:'' May - September 26, 2019
*''Status:'' Unreleased
*''Example:'' Hard Rock Live, Hollywood, FL (May 5, 2019)
 
'''Cloud Nine [Live 2023 Big Medley]'''<ref>This version was played as a medley along with ''[[Haunted]]'', ''[[My Last Breath]]'', ''[[Everybody's Fool]]'', ''[[Weight of the World]]'' and ''[[Whisper]]''.</ref>
*''Performing period:'' June 2 - 9, August 24 - October 28, 2023
*''Status:'' Unreleased
*''Example:'' [[Rock im Park]] 2023, Nuremberg, Germany (June 2, 2023)
 
== Lyrics==
If you wanna live, let live<BR>
If you wanna go, let go<BR>
I'm not afraid to dream<br>
To sleep, sleep forever<BR>
I don't need to touch the sky<BR>
I don't need to touch the sky<BR>
I just want to feel that high<BR>
I just want to feel that high<BR>
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Guess it wasn't real after all<BR>
Guess it wasn't real after all<BR>
Guess it wasn't real all along<BR>
Guess it wasn't real all along<BR>
<BR>
''[I'm all alone]''<br>
<br>
If I fall and all is lost<BR>
If I fall and all is lost<BR>
It's where I belong<BR>
It's where I belong<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
If you want to live, let live<BR>
If you wanna live, let live<BR>
If you want to go, let go<BR>
If you wanna go, let go<BR>
I'm never gonna be your sweet, sweet surrender<BR>
I'm never gonna be your sweet, sweet surrender<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Guess it wasn't real after all<BR>
Guess it wasn't real after all<BR>
Guess it wasn't real all along<BR>
Guess it wasn't real all along<BR>
''[I'm all alone]''<br>
<BR>
<BR>
If I fall and all is lost<BR>
If I fall and all is lost<BR>
No light to lead the way<BR>
No light to lead the way<BR>
Remember that all alone is where I belong<BR>
''[Never thought that it would end up this way]''<br>
Remember that all alone<BR>
Is where I belong<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
In a dream<BR>
In a dream<BR>
Will you give your love to me<BR>
Will you give your love to me?<BR>
Beg my broken heart to beat<BR>
Beg my broken heart to beat<BR>
Save my life<BR>
Save my life<BR>
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If I fall and all is lost<BR>
If I fall and all is lost<BR>
No light to lead the way<BR>
No light to lead the way<BR>
Remember that all alone is where I belong<BR>
''[Never thought that it would end this way]''<br>
Remember that all alone<BR>
Is where I belong<BR>
 
==Guitar tabs & sheet music==
*[http://evanescencereference.info/music/sheet/Cloud%20Nine%20Tab%20by%20Evanescence%20@%20Ultimate%20Guitar%20Archive.pdf Guitar tab - arranged by Bristlehead]
 
== Notes ==
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<ref name="lyrics" group=note>This line is different in the actual song. It could be lyrics from earlier demo versions or Amy just messed it up.</ref>
 
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==References ==
{{reflist|refs=
 
<ref name=canadacom>{{cite news|date=November 11, 2006|url=http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/arts_life/story.html?id=0564d70c-be75-4fcf-aa10-77109fe79bd2|title='Open Door' to likeable return of Evanescence|work=Canada.com|accessdate=August 11, 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110121739/http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/arts_life/story.html?id=0564d70c-be75-4fcf-aa10-77109fe79bd2|archivedate=November 10, 2012}}</ref>
 
<ref name=youtube1>{{cite web|title=Evanescence Interview in Sydney|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAStnkZv_kg|work=YouTube|date=2007|accessdate=January 17, 2014}}</ref>
 
<ref name=vh1>{{cite news|last=Bottomley|first=C.|date=September 18, 2006|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20061016104811/http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1540914/story.jhtml|title=Evanescence: Amy Lee Explains the New Songs|work=VH1|url=http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1540914/story.jhtml|archivedate=October 16, 2006|accessdate=December 3, 2006}}</ref>
 
<ref name=guitar9>{{cite web|url=http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/interviews/interviews/evanescence_guitarist_filling_ben_moodys_shoes.html|title=Evanescence Guitarist: Filling Ben Moody's Shoes|work=Ultimate Guitar|date=November 3, 2006|accessdate=July 14, 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061116090630/https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/interviews/interviews/evanescence_guitarist_filling_ben_moodys_shoes.html|archivedate=November 16, 2006}}</ref>
 
<ref name=nycsecret>{{cite news|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/evanescence-returns-to-live-stage-taps-finger-eleven-guitarist/|title=Evanescence Returns To Live Stage, Taps Finger Eleven Guitarist|work=Blabbermouth.net|date=November 5, 2009|accessdate=August 11, 2013}}</ref>
 
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== Guitar Tabs & Sheet Music ==
{{Evanescence}}
[http://evanescencereference.info/music/sheet/Cloud%20Nine%20Tab%20by%20Evanescence%20@%20Ultimate%20Guitar%20Archive.pdf Guitar tab - arranged by Bristlehead]
[[Category:Songs]]
[[Category:The Open Door songs]]

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Across the Universe*
All That I'm Living For
Anything for You
Anywhere
Artifact/The Turn
Ascension of the Spirit
Away from Me
Before the Dawn
Better Without You
Bleed
Blind Belief
Breathe No More
Bring Me to Life
Broken Pieces Shine
Call Me When You're Sober
Catherine
Cloud Nine
Demise
Disappear
End of the Dream
Erase This
Eternal
Even in Death
Everybody's Fool
Exodus
Far From Heaven
Farther Away
Feeding the Dark
Field of Innocence
Forever You
Forgive Me
Give Unto Me
Going Under
Good Enough
Haunted
Hello
Hi-Lo
If You Don't Mind
Imaginary
Imperfection
Instrumental 1
Instrumental 2
Instrumental 3
Instrumental 4
Lacrymosa
Lies
Like You
Listen to the Rain
Lithium
Lose Control
Lost in Paradise
Made of Stone
Me & You
Missing
My Heart Is Broken
My Immortal
My Last Breath
Never Go Back
New Way to Bleed
Oceans
October
Origin
Overture
Part of Me
Perfect Dream
Say You Will
Secret Door
Sick
Snow White Queen
So Close
Solitude
Spanish
Surrender
Sweet Sacrifice
Swimming Home
Take Cover
Taking Over Me
The Chain*
The Change
The End
The Game is Over
The In-Between
The Last Song I'm Wasting on You
The Only One
The Other Side
Together Again
Tourniquet
Understanding
Unknown Title
Unraveling
Use My Voice
Wasted on You
Weight of the World
What You Want
Where Will You Go?
Whisper
Yeah Right
You Got a Lot to Learn
Your Love
Your Star
* Cover songs


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General information

Written by: A. Lee, T. Balsamo

Cloud Nine is the fifth track from Evanescence's second studio album, The Open Door. It is described as a song which "could find a home in a Tim Burton movie" in an article.[1] In an interview in Australia, Amy said that this was the hardest song to sing from the album.[2]

Amy's description of the song:

Vin1.jpg It's about breaking up. There are a lot of relationship struggles on the record. I always write about what I was feeling, because then it's genuine. I was struggling with a relationship and felt like a waste of space. The first lyric says it all, 'If you want to live, let live/ If you want to go, let go/ What are we doing here?/ Because I can live without you.'[note 1][3] Vin2.jpg


Terry talked about how they recorded the song:

Vin1.jpg If it’s something like the song Cloud Nine, we got a cool drum beat that we liked. Then she came up with a vocal melody. It was cool because I just took the bass and started writing the bass line to the actual vocal melody. That was something different that I had never really done. We never really had any set way. If there was an idea, we would just do whatever we could to move forward with it.[4] Vin2.jpg


The song was added to the setlist to support The Open Door in 2006-07. It was later played at the NYC Secret Show on November 4, 2009.[5] It was played for the last time at the Maquinária Festival in Brazil on November 8, 2009. It was brought back to the setlist as part of a medley in 2019 and 2023.

Versions

Studio Versions

Cloud Nine

  • Recording date: September 2005 - March 2006
  • Status: Released
  • Released on: The Open Door (track #5)
  • Length: 4:22


Live Versions

Cloud Nine [Live]

  • Performing period: January 5 - August 24, 2007, November 4 - 8, 2009
  • Status: Unreleased
  • Example: Centre Bell, Montreal, Canada (January 5, 2007)

Cloud Nine [Live 2019 Medley][6]

  • Performing period: May - September 26, 2019
  • Status: Unreleased
  • Example: Hard Rock Live, Hollywood, FL (May 5, 2019)

Cloud Nine [Live 2023 Big Medley][7]

  • Performing period: June 2 - 9, August 24 - October 28, 2023
  • Status: Unreleased
  • Example: Rock im Park 2023, Nuremberg, Germany (June 2, 2023)

Lyrics

If you wanna live, let live
If you wanna go, let go
I'm not afraid to dream
To sleep, sleep forever
I don't need to touch the sky
I just want to feel that high
And you refuse to lift me

Guess it wasn't real after all
Guess it wasn't real all along
[I'm all alone]

If I fall and all is lost
It's where I belong

If you wanna live, let live
If you wanna go, let go
I'm never gonna be your sweet, sweet surrender

Guess it wasn't real after all
Guess it wasn't real all along
[I'm all alone]

If I fall and all is lost
No light to lead the way
[Never thought that it would end up this way]
Remember that all alone
Is where I belong

In a dream
Will you give your love to me?
Beg my broken heart to beat
Save my life
Change my mind

If I fall and all is lost
No light to lead the way
[Never thought that it would end this way]
Remember that all alone
Is where I belong

Guitar tabs & sheet music

Notes

  1. ↑ This line is different in the actual song. It could be lyrics from earlier demo versions or Amy just messed it up.

References

  1. ↑ "'Open Door' to likeable return of Evanescence". Canada.com. November 11, 2006. Archived from the original on November 10, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121110121739/http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/arts_life/story.html?id=0564d70c-be75-4fcf-aa10-77109fe79bd2. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Evanescence Interview in Sydney". YouTube. 2007. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAStnkZv_kg. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
  3. ↑ Bottomley, C. (September 18, 2006). "Evanescence: Amy Lee Explains the New Songs". VH1. Archived from the original on October 16, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20061016104811/http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1540914/story.jhtml. Retrieved December 3, 2006.
  4. ↑ "Evanescence Guitarist: Filling Ben Moody's Shoes". Ultimate Guitar. November 3, 2006. Archived from the original on November 16, 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20061116090630/https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/interviews/interviews/evanescence_guitarist_filling_ben_moodys_shoes.html. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Evanescence Returns To Live Stage, Taps Finger Eleven Guitarist". Blabbermouth.net. November 5, 2009. http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/evanescence-returns-to-live-stage-taps-finger-eleven-guitarist/. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
  6. ↑ This version was played as a medley along with Haunted, My Last Breath, Everybody's Fool, Weight of the World and Snow White Queen at the encore.
  7. ↑ This version was played as a medley along with Haunted, My Last Breath, Everybody's Fool, Weight of the World and Whisper.
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