Tourniquet (song)

Tourniquet is a song on the first studio album, Fallen.

Background

Originally recorded as a demo and revamped as track #6 on Fallen. Rocky Gray is credited with writing the song for his band Soul Embraced (The original, titled "My Tourniquet", was a track on an album called "For the Incomplete") and the rest of Evanescence reworked it for Fallen; Amy wrote a melody and a whole other second verse. If the song was released as a single (it would have possibly been released as a double A-side with Imaginary), the videos for the songs could have been very similar because of the outro of Tourniquet which links to the Intro of Imaginary.

On Fallen this track is titled 'Tourniquet' but on 2002 Demos it's called 'My Tourniquet'.

On Fallen version of the song Amy screams "I want to die". On demo versions it's a sample by Claire Danes saying "I long to die" from the Danes/DiCaprio movie version of Romeo & Juliet

Lyrics (Fallen version)

I tried to kill the pain
But it 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?

My god my tourniquet
Return to me salvation
My god my tourniquet
Return to me salvation

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?

My god my tourniquet
Return to me salvation
My god my tourniquet
Return to me salvation (x2) (Return to me salvation) (I want to die)

My wounds cry for the grave
My soul cries for deliverance
Will I be denied christ
Tourniquet
My suicide.. (Return to me salvation)(x2)

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