@Evanescence #Tourniquet #Live In #Paris #Bercy

@Evanescence #Tourniquet #Live In #Paris #Bercy #AnywhereButHome #Fallen Era 🌌🌌🌌 Tourniquets are used to cut off blood supply to certain limbs. [Verse 1:] I tried to kill my pain But only brought more (So much more) I lay dying And I'm pouring crimson regret and betrayal I'm dying, praying, bleeding and screaming Am I too lost to be saved? Am I too lost? [Chorus:] My God, my tourniquet Return to me salvation My God, my tourniquet Return to me salvation [Verse 2:] Do you remember me? Lost for so long Will you be on the other side Or will you forget me? I'm dying, praying, bleeding and screaming Am I too lost to be saved? Am I too lost? [Chorus:] My God, my tourniquet Return to me salvation My God, my tourniquet Return to me salvation (Return to me salvation) [Hook:] (I want to die) [Chorus:] My God, my tourniquet Return to me salvation My God, my tourniquet Return to me salvation [Verse 3:] My wounds cry for the grave My soul cries for deliverance Will I be denied, Christ? Tourniquet My suicide [Outro:] (Return to me salvation Return to me salvation) Tourniquets are used to cut off blood supply to certain limbs, oftenmost used when a limb has been severed from the body. The song, however, was originally written by Rocky Gray for his band Soul Embraced and was then called “My Tourniquet”. It was then reworked by the entire Evanescence band and released as “Tourniquet”. Lyrically it’s written from a Christian standpoint, about suicide. It’s from the perspective of someone who has just committed suicide and it’s about the controversy in Christianity that if you commit suicide, will you go to heaven or hell? If all sins are forgiven after accepting Christ, why would there be an exception? What have the artists said about the song? Amy Lee told VH1 on May 2003: A lot of our songs are written in a way that you could take them to mean several different things. That one was written by our drummer Rocky [Gray], who was in a Christian death metal band before he joined us. He told me that it is coming from a Christian standpoint, but it’s about suicide. It’s from the perspective of someone who has just committed suicide and it’s about the controversy in Christianity that if you commit suicide, will you go to heaven or hell? If all sins are forgiven after accepting Christ, why would there be an exception? In a 2003 Metal Edge interview, she discussed how she and the band reworked the song: That is actually Rocky’s song, it’s a cover! Rocky, our drummer, was in another band in Little Rock called Soul Embranced – it’s like a Christian metal band – and he played guitar and did vocals. It was this awesome song, but it’s totally different now. We were friends with Rocky and he used to play drums for us, it was a weird song, and really cool, and Ben was just like, “Hey, we’ll just sort of change this and do it for a show…” So we took the song and I wrote a melody for it. The lyrics are basically the same, but I wrote a whole other second verse, and the melody pretty much changed the format. It just has this great groove, and we played it from then on, and then we were just like Produced By Dave Fortman Written By Ben Moody, Amy Lee, Rocky Gray & David Hodges Keyboards David Hodges & Amy Lee Publishers Spinning Audio Vortex (BMI), Dwight Frye Music, Inc., Forthefallen Publishing, Thirsty Moon River Publishing & Zombies Ate My Publishing Phonographic Copyright ℗ The Bicycle Music Company Copyright © The Bicycle Music Company, Dwight Frye Music, Inc., Forthefallen Publishing, Spinning Audio Vortex (BMI), Thirsty Moon River Publishing & Zombies Ate My Publishing Label Wind-up Records Piano David Hodges & Amy Lee Mastering Engineer Ted Jensen Mixing Engineer Dave Fortman Guitar Ben Moody Vocals Amy Lee Strings Arranger David Hodges & David Campbell Strings Recording Engineer Mark Curry Programmer Ben Moody Strings Engineer Bill Talbott Strings Mixed By Mark Curry Drums Josh Freese Bass Guitar Francesco DiCosmo Recorded At The Newman Stage, Twentieth Century Fox (Los Angeles, CA), Conway Studios (Los Angeles, CA), NRG Studios (North Hollywood, CA), Ocean Studios (Burbank, CA), and Track Record, Inc. (Burbank, CA) Release Date March 4, 2003 Tourniquet Is A Cover Of My Tourniquet by Soul Embraced Tourniquet Covers Tourniquet by Vitamin String Quartet Tags Rock Nu-Metal

Added 11 May 2026