Give Unto Me

[DarkFlare89]

Give Unto Me

-Located on the album(s): "Sound Asleep EP" as Track #1
-NO BMI# (!!!!!)
-Length Time: 2:00 (EP); 5:46 (Piano-Vocal)
-Acoustic Version Available? [NO]
-Live Version Available? (EP) [NO], (Piano-Vocal) [YES] - See: Live @ Vino's May 7th, 1999.

Lyrics:

Give Unto Me - Sound Asleep Version

INSTRUMENTAL

Song:

Give Unto Me - Piano-Vocal
Italics are background/back up vocals.

0:00 - 0:25

I've been watching you from a distance
But distance sees through your disguise
All I want from you is your hurting
I want to heal you
I want to save you from the dark

1:11 - 1:16

Give unto me your troubles
I'll endure your suffering
Place onto me your burden
I'll drink your deadly poison

1:49 - 2:02

Why should I care if they hurt you (Ooh)
Somehow it matters more to me
Than if I were hurting myself
Save you (save you ahh)
I'll save you

(Fear not the flame of my love's candle)
Give unto me your troubles (Fear not the flame of my love's candle)
I'll endure your suffering (Let it be the sun in your world of darkness)
Place onto me your burden (Give unto me all that frightens you)
I'll drink your deadly (I'll have your nightmares for you if you'll sleep soundly)

3:24 - 4:10 (Ooohhh)

Give unto me your troubles, Mmm (Fear not the flame of my love's candle)
I'll endure your suffering (Let it be the sun in your world of darkness)
Place onto me your burden (Give unto me all that frightens you)
I'll drink your deadly poison (I'll have your nightmares for you if you'll sleep soundly)

4:42 - 5:08

Fear not the flame of my love's candle
Let it be the sun in your world of darkness

Song:

Some Things To Think About/Debate Over:

-This is the third song Evanescence created (for the second, see Understanding; for the first, see Solitude).

-We, as the EvCommunity, didn't always have the Instrumental to Give Unto Me (i.e. the SA EP version). Back in late 2005/early 2006, people from the My Last Breath forums had INSISTED that the demo of GUM was what was on SA EP and that the instrumental didn't exist. They were proven wrong when FINALLY the instrumental surfaced. For some reason, when SA EP songs were spreading across the internet, the Instrumental (like the original AOTS) didn't spread like it should have, leading people to believe that the GUM (Piano-Vocal) was what was on the EP (hence fake versions on E-Bay selling the wrong song). It was only until people started spreading it (I found it on bleed-Evanescence fan-site around that time) did it start to stick. In addition, the Perfect Rip on EvReference solidified the place of the SA EP version of Give Unto Me.

Before this, we had people coming up with "crazy" theories about the Instrumental and what is sounded-like. Due to this, some people began thinking that the Instrumental was made first and then the Piano-Vocal version. This EvRumor, however, is nonsense:

I've always wondered about the Give Unto Me instrumental. It makes sense since Amy composed it without the intention of adding vocals to it. She did that later on. I'd be interested to hear it to see if it's any different.

-Notice that even though people call it the "Instrumental" (as I did in the previous paragraph), the "Instrumental" is NOT an instrumental of the Piano-Vocal version (although those are quite pretty as well). This version apparently was "inspired" by the intro/outro of the Piano-Vocal version, however. According to others, Amy went all "creative" and created the instrumental out of the Piano-Vocal version. *shrug* Creative minds and all that.

The Sound Asleep EP version is a greatly re-produced instrumental synth arrangement with many musical themes from the original song. The end of this version notably features a similar 'morse-code' effect as can be heard at the end of the Fallen and Origin versions of My Immortal.

Give Unto Me : Credited as the 3rd song ever written for Evanescence, Give Unto Me was written by Amy Lee. It was originally a piano (played by Amy) song, featuring the vocals of Amy, background vocals (apparently by Amy too) and some minor effects, that never made the cut of Evanescence EP. Was later cut, edited, re-produced with major effects and turned into an instrumental piece for the intro of the Whisper/Sound Asleep EP in 1998.

-Give Unto Me is one out of the five pre-Fallen songs whose studio version was played on the radio. I am unsure as to WHICH version was played, although one has to assume it was the Piano-Vocal version, right?

-Give Unto Me is one of the eight songs NOT listed on the BMI Website under Evanescence.

-Ben Moody on the meaning of the song 'Give Unto Me' (from the EV EP Release Party):

We just wanted to say that we're Christians; we play music about a lot of things but our number one goal is to tell every one of you and everyone else out there about the love that we have for Jesus Christ and the love Jesus Chris has for us and this next song is about how kinda we felt (audience applause) kinda how we felt God is coming to us, coming from the perspective of God, about all the garbage that'll come onto your everyday life, and all the crap that will bring you down and it's just, God is just waiting to take it away . . . you don't have to let it get you down. Anyway this is called 'Give Unto Me.'

THANKS to DoubleA for the lyrics and the videos are from FallenEvArmy!

[harridan]

I can't believe we didn't have a thread for this one *complains of the lazy mods* Oh! I can't complain of myself

I like the sound of the piano in this one. I actually prefer listening to the instrumental.

[Open The Door]

I know for a fact, they used part of GUM instrumental in My Immortal, but at the end of Breathe No More (demo), it sounds a little like the end of MI, which would have been part of the GUM instrumental. I think they used GUM Instrumental in MI and BNM.

[AeternusAmatorius]

Or it could have just been the same effect, because those songs are in completely different keys.

[Open The Door]

This is true. It just the very ending of BNM sounds like Sound Asleep GUM, well, at least to me.

[Rarkphoenix]

Has anybody managed to work out if it's morse code at the end of the instrumental and if so what it means? Would be pretty cool if it turned out to be a secret message (:

[AeternusAmatorius]

Ben confirmed that the beeps in My Immortal are not intended to be morse code. They were made from a synthesizer that when a key is held for a long time, it ends up making this beeping noise.

At the end of the Fallen and the band versions can be heard a beeps code. This effect was used also at the end of Breathe No More and of Give Unto Me. This code was believed to be a morse code, but it turned out to be a false information; this is what Ben Moody explained about it:

It's actually a preset pattern on a keyboard synthesizer that we were using on that song. And if you sustain the note long enough, it trails off into this beeping that sounds a lot like Morse Code and we thought that it sounded really cool, so we left it. So it's there by accident, to be perfectly honest with you.[1]

evanescencereference.info/wiki/index.php?title=My_Immortal#cite_note-0

Though, I'm sure someone could distinguish the beeps if they knew how to do morse code. When I have head phones with me, I'll dry to distinguish dot from dash and the stop to see if it means anything.

[Rarkphoenix]

Thanks AA! That's actually really cool in itself! (: *makes mental note to play around with ma keyboards with an aim to find some interesting glitches*

[jessicawhatsername]

i prefer the vocal version over the instrumental.

[Himmelslicht]

I really like both. The instrumental actually gives me a nice feeling, it's one of those songs that takes you places, if I make any sense

[Open The Door]

The instrumental is a tad bit creepy to listen to in the dark at 1 AM. Hahaha. But I love both versions!

[RapturedLight]

I tend to prefer the instrumental for some reason. I like the piano-vocal one, but it's never been one of my favorites despite the haunting piano and lyrics.

[AeternusAmatorius]

Hmm. I think I'm going to mess around with the instrumental and piano vocal versions... hehe. When I like what I've done, I'll upload it to YouTube and let you guys listen.



I've been messing around with the piano vocal and instrumental versions and putting them together. Not the greatest thing but...

[DarkFlare89]

Jul 1, 2013 13:59:03 GMT -5 AeternusAmatorius said:

^I think Ben meant the piano vocal version of GUM, not the instrumental. We can also bring up the debate on how we know that the first track on the SA EP is an instrumental version of GUM...

Taken from the AOTS Thread^

Didn't that get debate get buried and done with when Syd uploaded the Perfect Rips of all three of his EPs + Origin on the EvReference?

[AeternusAmatorius]

Jul 1, 2013 14:05:50 GMT -5 DarkFlare89 said:

Jul 1, 2013 13:59:03 GMT -5 AeternusAmatorius said:

^I think Ben meant the piano vocal version of GUM, not the instrumental. We can also bring up the debate on how we know that the first track on the SA EP is an instrumental version of GUM...

Taken from the AOTS Thread^

Didn't that get debate get buried and done with when Syd uploaded the Perfect Rips of all three of his EPs + Origin on the EvReference?

Those Perfect Rips were uploaded ages ago and I remember discussing the song names and how fans came across their names when we didn't have a tracklist (or artwork) for the SA EP and the Mysatry EP about last year or something. But I guess we can extinguish that debate because I guess we will never 100% know until we get our hands on a real SA or M EP and see if they have any "data files" on the disc... Though, Brad seems to know they were called GUM and AOTS... 

Aren't we still debating whether the photo on EvRef is an actual photo of the SA EP because we do not know for sure if they all were signed or if a few people had their signed after the "release" of the EP.


UGH! So many unanswered questions...    haha!