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Revision as of 12:53, 14 November 2007

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 and T. Balsamo

Described as a song about Amy's "plea for perspective from the expectation of young fans" by Evanescence.com.

The guitars take off whilst Amy’s voice gets lost between sampled mumbling and a guitar riff by Balsamo. The vocals get more and more synthetic whilst the guitars get mixed with an electronic supplement. A track that is very easily distinguished from Evanescence’s repertoire.

Amy's description of the song: [1]

Vin1.jpg I live for the rock songs. With the line-up changing, I think a lot of people thought it would be more of the My Immortal stuff. But My Immortal was Ben [Moody]'s song! I was always trying to pull us in a crazier direction. Songs like Weight of the World and Sweet Sacrifice and All That I'm Living For are so amazing to me because of the adrenaline. Especially when we play them live. Vin2.jpg


The song was released as a radio single in Colombia, as announced in an article of October 18, 2007 [2].

Versions

Studio versions:

Weight of the World

  • Recording date: September 2005 - March 2006
  • Status: Released
  • Released on:
The Open Door (track #3)
Weight Of The World promotional single[3]
  • Length: 3:38


Live versions:

Weight of the World [live]

  • Performing period: October 5, 2006 - present
  • Status: Unreleased
  • Example: Live @ KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas 2006

Weight of the World [acoustic] [4]

  • Performing period: September 2006
  • Status: Unreleased
  • Length: Needed

Lyrics

Feels like the weight of the world
Like God in Heaven gave me a turn
Don't cling to me
I swear I can't fix you
Still in the dark, can you fix me?

Freefall, freefall
All through life

If you love me
Then let go of me
I won't be held down
by who I used to be
She's nothing to me

Feels like the weight of the world
Like all my screaming has gone unheard
And oh! I know you don't believe in me
Safe in the dark, how can you see?

Freefall, freefall
All through life

If you love me
then let go of me
I won't be held down
By who I used to be

If you love me
then let go of me
I won't be held down
By who I was

If you love me
then let go of me
I won't be held down
By who I used to be

Guitar Tabs & Sheet Music

CD Single Cover

The image below has been put at the internet as the Weight of the World single cover *(an unofficial image so far), anyway it's here for you check out.


File:Exemplo.jpg


For high quality image access: Weight of the World CD Cover

Notes and References

  1. C. Bottomley. Evanescence: Amy Lee Explains the New Songs - VH1.com
  2. http://www.lafm.com.co/noticia.php3?nt=25563 - See the article
  3. Weight of the World, lo nuevo de Evanescence - La FM
  4. Performed by Amy Lee (piano, vocals), John LeCompt (acoustic guitar) and David Eggar (cello)