Who Will You Follow – English Lyrics

• By: Evanescence
• Album: Sanctuary

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the dramatic world of Evanescence with 'Who Will You Follow.' This song is a perfect gateway for English learners to explore evocative, philosophical vocabulary and the use of rhetorical questions in a hauntingly beautiful musical setting.

[English]

What have you done to me?

You drained the life out of me till I

don't know myself. When all your faith

in reality fades away,

who will you follow?

Are we alone now? I can't find the way

out. Keep waking the same fear

for desire.

We're fing fire.

We draw the light. We're broken by

dying for years.

All this feel was born in my mind.

I gave you everything you'll ever be.

I feel the changes crack in the matrix.

Heat. Heat. Heat.

Heat. Heat. Heat.

Heat. Heat.

Oh,

heat, heat.

Heat.

Heat. Talk to me.

You train the life out of me. Till I

don't know myself.

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
drained /dreɪnd/ B2	verb - to empty liquid from something; to exhaust someone of strength
reality /riˈælɪti/ B1	noun - the state of things as they actually exist
fades /feɪdz/ B1	verb - to gradually disappear or lose brightness
desire /dɪˈzaɪər/ B2	noun - a strong feeling of wanting to have something
broken /ˈbroʊkən/ A2	adjective - damaged or having suffered a fracture
matrix /ˈmeɪtrɪks/ C2	noun - an environment or material in which something develops
changes /ˈtʃeɪndʒɪz/ A1	noun - the act or instance of making or becoming different

Key Grammar Structures

• What have you done to me?

  ➔ Present Perfect Tense

  ➔ Used "have done" to describe an action that started in the past and has a connection or effect on the present.

• When all your faith in reality fades away, who will you follow?

  ➔ Future Simple in a Time Clause

  ➔ The main clause uses "will you follow" for future prediction, while the 'when' clause establishes the condition.

• Are we alone now?

  ➔ Interrogative sentence structure

  ➔ Subject-verb inversion ("Are we") is used to transform a statement into a question.

• Keep waking the same fear for desire.

  ➔ Gerund as part of an imperative structure

  ➔ The verb "keep" is followed by the gerund "waking" to indicate a continuous or repeated action.

• We're broken by dying for years.

  ➔ Passive Voice with Present Perfect Continuous nuance

  ➔ "Are broken" is passive, while "for years" implies a duration that started in the past and continues to the present.

• All this feel was born in my mind.

  ➔ Simple Past Passive Voice

  ➔ "Was born" is the passive form of the verb "bear", indicating an action completed in the past.

• I gave you everything you'll ever be.

  ➔ Relative Clause (omitted 'that')

  ➔ The relative pronoun "that" is understood after "everything" to modify the noun.

• I feel the changes crack in the matrix.

  ➔ Verb of perception + bare infinitive

  ➔ The verb "feel" is followed by the object "the changes" and the bare infinitive "crack".