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"Tourniquet" is a song performed by the alternative rock band Evanescence. The song was track six on their debut album, Fallen (2003).
"Tourniquet" was originally written and performed by Soul Embraced, a Christian death metal band, for their 2000 debut album, For the Incomplete. When Soul Embraced guitarist Rocky Gray joined Evanescence as their drummer, Evanescence did their own adaptation of the song. Evanescence's adaptation has a second verse added. Soul Embraced's version is called "My Tourniquet", but it was changed to "Tourniquet" for the three demo versions and Fallen version by Evanescence.
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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? |
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—Amy Lee, VH1 News[1]
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In the demo versions, a clip from Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet is played during the bridge and the line "I long to die!" can be heard. In the Fallen version, Evanescence lead singer Amy Lee changed the line slightly, screaming "I want to die!"
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