• Spanish Translation

From an interview with Spin in October 2006:

You’ve said that much of Fallen, which you cowrote with Moody, is about being in an abusive relationship for three years.

Just listen to that statement: I went through an abusive relationship for three years. It’s weird to stay in an abusive relationship for so long. I guess sometimes music makes me hang on longer because it makes me feel like I’m getting [my feelings] out somehow, so I don’t actually have to move on. After I recorded those songs, I was listening to my own words on “Going Under.” When it goes to the chorus, what I would have loved to hear myself sing is “I’m leaving and I’m not going to put up with this anymore.” But instead the line is “I’m going under, drowing in you.” I was thinking to myself, “You know what you need to do, and you’re not doing it.”

“Going Under.” That was the song that I really wanted for the first single, and [the label] really wanted “Bring Me to Life.” And the movie thing [the Daredevil soundtrack] came up and we had that opportunity, and it was like, “This is what’s happening. We were like, "OK, not gonna fight about it. But please let ‘Going Under’ be the second single, because we need something to really grab people. We wrote "Going Under” after “Bring Me to Life.” A lot of times when you’re writing an album you keep trying to top your last thing, and it felt in the moment to me like, “OK, we did it.” And that was the last one. It’s usually the last song you write, half the time, that ends up being your first single because you finally got to that place. I felt that way about “Going Under” but I [also] love “Bring Me to Life.” I love the expression [of “Going Under”]. I was going for a place of, “I’ve had enough and I’m standing up for myself.” Instead of “Bring Me to Life,” which was a little bit more of a cry for help.

–via RevolverMag (November, 2023)