The Last Song I'm Wasting On You

Album: The Open Door (2006)
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Songfacts®:

  • In this song, Evanescence lead singer Amy Lee shuts the door on a person who caused her a great deal of pain. When Spin magazine asked her if the song is about Ben Moody, her co-founder in Evanescence, she replied: "If I answer that, then I'm not hiding anything anymore. But I just sort of answered it, didn't I?"

    Moody abruptly left the band in 2003 while they were touring in support of their debut album, Fallen, which was a runaway hit. Earlier in the interview, Lee talked about how he bailed. "Ben is all about the drama," she said, before explaining how she wouldn't indulge him by begging him to stay.
  • Lee wrote this song at a soundcheck before a 2004 show in Auckland, where it flowed out of her. "This song came out of a moment where I had to be very strong and very independent," she told Entertainment Weekly. "I was in the middle of a tour and felt so inspired to write that I recorded in the bathroom on this huge analog recording device. It's definitely one of those personal, hard moments, when beauty is born out of pain."
  • The title doesn't show up in the lyric, and there's no chorus in the song, just a straight narrative from Amy Lee. It was included as a bonus track on The Open Door, the first Evanescence album since Ben Moody's departure.

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