She founded the band with Ben Moody. The two met at a youth camp when Lee was playing Meat Loaf 's " I'd Do Anything for Love (but I Won't Do That) " on the piano. Within a month, the pair were playing acoustic sets at Arkansas book stores and coffee houses before recording two EPs, "Evanescence" EP (in 1998) and then the "Sound Asleep" EP (in 1999).
Another song, "You", was written by Amy Lee, but was never intended to be released. Rumors, though unsubstantiated, circulated that when "You" was leaked, she asked people to stop distributing the song and its lyrics .Many, but not all, lyrics websites took down their content for "You". In 2000, Evanescence recorded the longer EP "Origin".
The song "Hello" from Fallen has been reported to have been written for her late sister, as well as the song "Like You" from The Open Door with the lyrics,"I long to be like you, sis, Lie cold in the ground like you did", also hinting at the death of her sister and her grief for it.
This demo contains three songs which were used on the debut album Fallen and was written by Lee and Moody: " Whisper ", " Imaginary " and " My Immortal ". Whereas "Whisper" and "Imaginary" underwent further modifications before being included on Fallen , "My Immortal" is virtually identical.
A later "band version" of "My Immortal" was made available for download for those who had bought an official version of Fallen through their official web site, but required that a CD checker program also be downloaded for verification before it would play.The "band version" was included on later versions of Fallen, notably the Brazilian and Argentine Editions.
