2011Released
4:29

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Being broken is one of several themes that run through Evanescence's self-titled third album, but this song is not about romantic heartbreak. Frontwoman Amy Lee explained to Kerrang! magazine: "A good friend of mine heads up an organization in New York that rescues victims of sex trafficking. My husband and I got involved and were really moved and horrified. As I was writing the song I was putting myself in that place - what would it be like to be trapped? Threatened? Alone? Unable to tell anyone what was happening because you're afraid of what would happen?"

During her long break between Evanescence's second and third albums, Amy Lee learnt to play the concert harp. This intense and rocking ballad is one of a handful of tracks that she wrote for Evanescence on the plucked stringed instrument.

Lee told MTV News how the song's subject matter of being trapped in a nightmare was inspired by her friend's experiences of rescuing victims of sex trafficking. "We were having conversations with her, and I was writing at the same time," she explained. "And a lot of times when I write, I just sort of make up words, and something will stick, and I'll be like, 'Oh, that's from my subconscious. That's what I need to write the song about.' And that sort of happened halfway through. I was like, 'I think I'm writing about this thing, it's on my heart,' just imagining being in such a trapped place and how that might feel, so the song was actually inspired by that idea."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of My Heart Is Broken.
F♯Key
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
96BPM

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The Bicycle Music Company
© 2011 The Bicycle Music Company
℗ 2011 The Bicycle Music Company

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