Whisper

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For the Whisper EP, see Sound Asleep EP.

General information

Written by: A. Lee, B. Moody and D. Hodges

Whisper is the twelfth track from Evanescence's debut album, Fallen.

It was originally recorded on Amy and Ben's Sound Asleep EP in 1998. It's one of the first songs Amy Lee and Ben Moody wrote as Evanescence.

At the beginning of the song on the Sound Asleep EP, there is an introduction which is actually a part of the song itself played backward that culminates in a sound clip from the movie My World Dies Screaming, also known as Terror in the Haunted House (1958), the same film some clips on Understanding are taken from.

The post-Origin demo of Whisper contains sound clips from the Romeo and Juliet soundtrack. This version begins with a sample intro from "Death Scene" and "O Verona" and includes backup vocals by David Hodges on the chorus. There are a few versions of the song floating around the internet and various bootleg discs (see Fake). One version has a burst of noise before the vocals in the intro sample (at approximately 0:29). Another version does not have this burst of noise, but has distinct 'skipping' sounds that appear after the 0:30 mark.

Whisper received local radio play in Little Rock. It was the #1 most requested new single for more than two weeks on the radio station KLEC "Lick" 106.3 FM.

The We The Living Vol. 3 version is the Sound Asleep EP version without the reversed intro and sound clip from the movie. It also has an extended drum outro. The Post-Sound Asleep demo is mostly the same as the We The Living version, only without the extended drum outro.

The Automata Magazine 3.0 version is the Origin version of Whisper and the song "Origin" merged into one track.

In pre-releases of the demo on Origin, Origin and Whisper are separate tracks but there is no gap of silence between track 1 and 2, almost appeared merged as the same track.

In the Fallen version, at the end the choir sings "Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum," which is roughly translated from Latin as "Save us from danger, save us from evil". As with all the other choir parts throughout the album, the choir on "Whisper" was written and arranged by Amy. The Millenium Choir performed the vocals, and it was recorded at NRG Studios in North Hollywood. The same choir voiced the rest of Fallen, and later Lacrymosa on The Open Door.

While answering questions from fans in an EvClub interview, a question comes up that asks "Can you still relate to the songs you wrote years ago?" Amy's response about this song is:

Whisper is something that we still play on stage a lot and I love playing it, it's a great live song. But lyrically it doesn't hold a ton of meaning for me anymore 'cause I'm not really at a very dark place in my life at all right now. I'm at a pretty positive place. So unless I'm really angry, I don't totally relate to Whisper.

A part of Whisper was played by Amy in Overture, the intro song on Evanescence's fourth studio album, Synthesis;

That progression includes bits from some of our earliest music, including Whisper, which was one of the first songs we ever recorded and anyone ever heard from us.

Versions

Studio Versions:

Whisper [Fallen version]

• Recording Date: August - November 2002
• Status: Released
• Released On: Fallen (track #11)
• Length: 5:27

Whisper [Sound Asleep EP version]

• Recording Date: 1998
• Status: Released
• Released On: Sound Asleep EP (track #2)
• Length: 4:06

Whisper [Post-Sound Asleep demo]

• Recording Date: 1998
• Status: Unreleased
• Length: 3:51

Whisper [We The Living Vol. 3 version]

• Recording Date: 1998
• Status: Released
• Released On: We The Living, Vol. 3 (track #6)
• Length: 4:06

Whisper [Origin version]

• Recording Date: 1999
• Status: Released
• Released On: Origin (track #2)
• Length: 3:56

Whisper [Automata Magazine 3.0 version]

• Recording Date: 1999
• Status: Released
• Released On: Automata Magazine 3.0 (track #2)
• Length: 4:32

Whisper [Post-Origin demo]

• Recording Date: 2001-2002
• Status: Unreleased
• Length: 5:12

Whisper [Demo 10.10.01]

• Recording date: October 10, 2001
• Status: To be released in February 2024
• Released on: Fallen 20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition (track #A2)
• Length: TBT

Live Versions:

Whisper [2000-2004 live]

• Performing period: 2000 - August 14, 2004
• Status: Released
• Recording date: October 17, 2003 (Everybody's Fool single); May 25, 2004 (Anywhere but Home)
• Released on:

Anywhere but Home (track #13)

"Everybody's Fool" single (track #3)

• Length: 5:27 ("Everybody's Fool" single); 5:43 (Anywhere but Home)
• Example: River Market Pavillion, Little Rock (2000), Rock am Ring (June 7, 2003)

Whisper [2006-2007 live]

• Performing period: October 5, 2006 - December 8, 2007
• Example: Rock am Ring (June 3, 2007)

Whisper [2009 live]

• Performing period: November 4 and November 8, 2009
• Performed at: New York City Secret Show (November 4) and Maquinaria Festival, São Paulo, Brazil (November 8)

Whisper [2011-2012 live]

• Performing Period: August 17, 2011 - November 9, 2012
• Example: War Memorial Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee, USA (August 17, 2011)

Whisper [2015 live]

• Performing Period: November 2015
• Example: Ozzfest Festival, Japan (November 21)

Whisper [2016 live]

• Performing Period: April - November 2016
• Status: Unreleased

Whisper [2017 live]

• Performing Period: April - July 9, 2017
• Status: Unreleased

Whisper [2019 live]

• Performing Period: May 3 - September 26, 2019
• Status: Unreleased
• Example: Welcome to Rockville (May 3)

Whisper [Live 2023 Big Medley]

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

Whisper [2023 live]

• Performing Period: August 2023
• Status: Unreleased
• Example: Summer Sonic, Osaka, Japan (August 20, 2023)

Whisper [Acoustic]

• Performing period: 2003
• Status: Unreleased
• Example: The acoustic performance at Juanita's

Whisper [Live Sound Asleep EP version]

• Performing Period: January 1999; May 7th, 1999
• Status: Unreleased
• Example: Concert at Vino's Bar on January 2 and May 7, 1999

Download

• Whisper (Sound Asleep EP)

• Whisper (Origin)

• Whisper (Post-Sound Asleep Demo)

• Whisper (Automata Magazine 3.0)

• Whisper (Post-Origin Demo)

• Whisper (We The Living Vol. 3)

Lyrics

Fallen Version

Catch me as I fall
Say you're here and it's all over now
Speaking to the atmosphere
No one's here and I fall into myself
This truth drives me into madness
I know I can stop the pain
If I will it all away
If I will it all away

Don't turn away [Don't give in to the pain]
Don't try to hide [Though they're screaming your name]
Don't close your eyes [God knows what lies behind them]
Don't turn out the light [Never sleep, never die]

I'm frightened by what I see
But somehow I know
That there's much more to come
Immobilized by my fear
And soon to be blinded by tears
I can stop the pain
If I will it all away
If I will it all away

Don't turn away [Don't give in to the pain]
Don't try to hide [Though they're screaming your name]
Don't close your eyes [God knows what lies behind them]
Don't turn out the light [Never sleep, never die]

Fallen angels at my feet
Whispered voices at my ear
Death before my eyes
Lying next to me, I fear

She beckons me shall I give in?
Upon my end shall I begin?
Forsaking all I've fallen for
I rise to meet the end [I rise to meet my end]

Don't turn away [Don't give in to the pain]
Don't try to hide [Though they're screaming your name]
Don't close your eyes [God knows what lies behind them]
Don't turn out the light [Never sleep, never die]

[Servatis a periculum] Don't turn away [Don't give in to the pain]
[Servatis a maleficum] Don't try to hide [Though they're screaming your name]
[Servatis a periculum] Don't close your eyes [God knows what lies behind them]
[Servatis a maleficum] Don't turn out the light [Never sleep, never die]

[Servatis a periculum] Don't turn away [Don't give in to the pain]
[Servatis a maleficum] Don't try to hide [Though they're screaming your name]
[Servatis a periculum] Don't close your eyes [God knows what lies behind them]
[Servatis a maleficum] Don't turn out the light [Never sleep, never die]

Servatis a periculum
Servatis a maleficum
Servatis a periculum
Servatis a maleficum
Servatis a periculum
Servatis a maleficum
Servatis a periculum
Servatis a maleficum
Servatis a periculum
Servatis a maleficum
Servatis a periculum
Servatis a maleficum
Servatis a periculum

Sound Asleep EP version

Death in- Death in it's most hideous form

Catch me as I fall
Say you're here and it's all over now
Speaking to the atmosphere
No one's here and I fall into myself
This truth drive me into madness
I know I can stop the pain
If I will it all away

Don't turn away [Don't give in to the pain]
Don't try to hide [Though they're screaming your name]
Don't close your eyes [God knows what lies behind them]
Don't turn out the light [Never sleep, never die]

I'm frightened by what I see
But somehow I know
That there's much more to come
Immobilized by my fear
And soon to be
Blinded by tears
I can stop the pain
If I will it all away

Don't turn away [Don't give in to the pain]
Don't try to hide [Though they're screaming your name]
Don't close your eyes [God knows what lies behind them]
Don't turn out the light [Never sleep, never die]

Fallen angels at my feet
Whispered voices at my ear
Death before my eyes [death before my eyes]
Lying next to me, I fear

She beckons me shall I give in
Upon my end shall I begin
Forsaking all I've fallen for
I rise to meet my end [I rise to meet my end]
[I rise to meet my end]
Don't turn away [Don't give in to the pain]
Don't try to hide [Though they're screaming your name]
Don't close your eyes [God knows what lies behind them]
Don't turn out the light [Never sleep, never die]

Origin version

Catch me as I fall
Say you're here and it's all over now [it's all over now]
Speaking to the atmosphere
No one's here and I fall into myself
This truth drive me into madness
I know I can stop the pain
If I will it all away

Don't turn away [Don't give in to the pain]
Don't try to hide [Though they're screaming your name]
Don't close your eyes [God knows what lies behind them]
Don't turn out the light [Never sleep, never die]

I'm frightened by what I see
But somehow I know
That there's much more to come
Immobilized by my fear
And soon to be
Blinded by tears
I can stop the pain
If I will it all away

Don't turn away [Don't give in to the pain]
Don't try to hide [Though they're screaming your name]
Don't close your eyes [God knows what lies behind them]
Don't turn out the light [Never sleep, never die]

Fallen angels at my feet
Whispered voices at my ear
Death before my eyes
Lying next to me, I fear

She beckons me shall I give in
Upon my end shall I begin
Forsaking all I've fallen for
I rise to meet the end
Don't turn away [Don't give in to the pain]
Don't try to hide [Though they're screaming your name]
Don't close your eyes [God knows what lies behind them]
Don't turn out the light [Never sleep, never die]

Post-Sound Asleep demo and We The Living Vol. 3

Catch me as I fall
Say you're here and it's all over now
Speaking to the atmosphere
No one's here and I fall into myself
This truth drive me into madness
I know I can stop the pain
If I will it all away

Don't turn away [Don't give in to the pain]
Don't try to hide [Though they're screaming your name]
Don't close your eyes [God knows what lies behind them]
Don't turn out the light [Never sleep, never die]

I'm frightened by what I see
But somehow I know
That there's much more to come
Immobilized by my fear
And soon to be
Blinded by tears
I can stop the pain
If I will it all away

Don't turn away [Don't give in to the pain]
Don't try to hide [Though they're screaming your name]
Don't close your eyes [God knows what lies behind them]
Don't turn out the light [Never sleep, never die]

Fallen angels at my feet
Whispered voices at my ear
Death before my eyes [death before my eyes]
Lying next to me, I fear

She beckons me shall I give in
Upon my end shall I begin
Forsaking all I've fallen for
I rise to meet my end [I rise to meet my end]
[I rise to meet my end]
Don't turn away [Don't give in to the pain]
Don't try to hide [Though they're screaming your name]
Don't close your eyes [God knows what lies behind them]
Don't turn out the light [Never sleep, never die]

Automata Magazine 3.0 version

I'm sure it's getting darker
Don't close your eyes
Don't make a sound
Don't make a sound

You hold the answer deep within your own mind
Death in it's most hideous form

Catch me as I fall
Say you're here and it's all over now [it's all over now]
Speaking to the atmosphere
No one's here and I fall into myself
This truth drive me into madness
I know I can stop the pain
If I will it all away

Don't turn away [Don't give in to the pain]
Don't try to hide [Though they're screaming your name]
Don't close your eyes [God knows what lies behind them]
Don't turn out the light [Never sleep, never die]

I'm frightened by what I see
But somehow I know
That there's much more to come
Immobilized by my fear
And soon to be
Blinded by tears
I can stop the pain
If I will it all away

Don't turn away [Don't give in to the pain]
Don't try to hide [Though they're screaming your name]
Don't close your eyes [God knows what lies behind them]
Don't turn out the light [Never sleep, never die]

Fallen angels at my feet
Whispered voices at my ear
Death before my eyes
Lying next to me, I fear

She beckons me shall I give in
Upon my end shall I begin
Forsaking all I've fallen for
I rise to meet the end
Don't turn away [Don't give in to the pain]
Don't try to hide [Though they're screaming your name]
Don't close your eyes [God knows what lies behind them]
Don't turn out the light [Never sleep, never die]

Post-Origin demo

Catch me as I fall
Say you're here and it's all over now
Speaking to the atmosphere
No one's here and I fall into myself
This truth [this truth] drives me into [into] madness [madness]
I know I can stop the pain
If I will it all away [will it all away]

Don't turn away [Don't give in to the pain]
Don't try to hide [Though they're screaming your name]
Don't close your eyes [God knows what lies behind them]
Don't turn out the light [Never sleep, never die]

I'm frightened by what I see
But somehow I know
That there's much more to come
Immobilized by my fear
And soon to be blinded by tears
I can stop the pain
If I will it all away [will it all away]

Don't turn away [Don't give in to the pain]
Don't try to hide [Though they're screaming your name]
Don't close your eyes [God knows what lies behind them]
Don't turn out the light [Never sleep, never die]

Fallen angels at my feet
Whispered voices at my ear
Death before my eyes
Lying next to me I fear

She beckons me shall I give in
Upon my end shall I begin
Forsaking all I've fallen for
I rise to meet the end

Don't turn away [Don't give in to the pain]
Don't try to hide [Though they're screaming your name]
Don't close your eyes [God knows what lies behind them]
Don't turn out the light [Never sleep, never die]

Guitar tabs & sheet music

• Piano sheet music with guitar tabs
• Piano sheet music with vocal - arranged by amadeus88
• Piano sheet music - transcribed by Devin Eastman
• midi file