"Field of Innocence" is the sixth track on Evanescence's demo album, Origin.
Background[]
Amy Lee wrote the lyrics.[1] In the background of the song, Ben Moody reads out loud a poem he had written.[2] The Latin chant repeated throughout the song was not written by Evanescence. It is a snippet from the song "Morning Hymn" from the Preludium of the Broadway version of Sound of Music.[3] The Latin is translated to English as:
O Jesus, King most wonderful!
Thou Conqueror reknowned!
Thou Sweetness most ineffable!
in whom all joys are found!
Lyrics[]
[Iesu, Rex amirabilis]
I still remember the world from the eyes of a child
Slowly those feelings were clouded by what I know now
Where has my heart gone?
An uneven trade for the real world
Oh I, I want to go back to believing in everything and knowing nothing at all
I still remember the sun always warm on my back
Somehow it seems colder now
Where has my heart gone?
Trapped in the eyes of a stranger
Oh I, I want to go back to believing in everything
[Iesu, Rex amirabiliset triumphator nobilis dulcedo ineffabilis totus desiderabilis]
As the years pass by before my face [totus desiderabilis] As wars rage before me, finding myself in these last days of existence
This parasite inside me I forced it out in the darkness of the storm [Iesu, Rex amirabilis]
Lies an evil, but it's me
Where has my heart gone?
An uneven trade for the real world
Oh I, I want to go back to believing in everything
Oh, where, where has my heart gone?
Trapped in the eyes of a stranger
Oh I, I want to go back to believing in everything
