Evanescence - My Immortal Chords & Tabs

My Immortal
Evanescense
Track number 4 form Fallen (2003)
Tabbed by: Mariano Arnaiz
Anything to: marianoarnaiz@hotmail.com

This, as everybody know is a great song, is not for guitar completly, and hell it´s hard
tab.
After a while and because new Evanescense album is coming out i disided to correct my
tab
and it had some pretty seriuos erros, after listening to the song a while i correct some things.
Remember as this is originany for piano, there are things that you will fell werid cause
piano
you can play the chords in many differnt ways, this is the closest to the real deal in
have
fun with it.

About how to play the song pick the chords down (from E to e), up (from e to G or D),
then
back down (from G or D to e), sometimes dont pick some of the middle strings (specially
A).
Listen to the piano closely cause this are the chords. Also all the D in the song can be
and
you can play with the changing of them (as the piano does).


Piano intro (Main riff)

     A                       Cm#
e||--------------9---------|--------4------9-------------||
B||------------------10----|------5—-(5)--------(9)------||
G||--------6-------9----9--|-------(6)--------(9)---(9)--|| x4
D||------7---7-------------|------6---6------------------||
A||--0-----------0---------|--4--------------------------||
E||------------------------|--------------9--------------||

Verse 1 (You can play it picking some notes like in the Main riff)


A                     C#m
I'm so tired of being here
A                       C#m
suppressed by all of my childish fears
A
and if you have to leave
  C#m
I wish that you could just leave
A
because your presence still lingers here
C#m
and it won't leave me alone

(Main riff)

     A                       Cm#
e||--------------9---------|--------4------9-------------||
B||------------------10----|------5—-(5)--------(9)------||
G||--------6-------9----9--|-------(6)--------(9)---(9)--|| x4
D||------7---7-------------|------6---6------------------||
A||--0-----------0---------|--4--------------------------||
E||------------------------|--------------9--------------||

Pre-Chorus

F#m                         C#m
   These wounds won't seem to heal
F#m                     C#m
    this pain is just too real
F#m                        E             E7
there's just too much that time cannot erase

Chorus

F#m     (C#m)  D   E         C#m
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
F#m       (C#m)   D   E          C#m        (Riff 2)
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your        fears
F#m     (C#m) D    E            C#m
And I've held your hand through all of these years
F#m    (C#m) D  E    (Riff 2)
but you sti…ill have         all of me


Riff 2 (this riff can be placed 2 differnt ways all depends in your way of playing
way)

     Esus4    E                  Esus4    E
e||------5-4----------|  OR  |-------------------||
B||----------5--------|      |------10-9---------||
G||------------4------| THIS |-----------9-------||
D||---2-----------2---|      |-------------9-----||
A||-------------------| WAY  |---7-----------7---||
E||--(0)--------------|      |--(0)--------------||

Pre-Verse

   A                       Cm#
e||--------------9---------|--------4------9-------------||
B||------------------10----|------5—-(5)--------(9)------||
G||--------6-------9----9--|-------(6)--------(9)---(9)--|| x2
D||------7---7-------------|------6---6------------------||
A||--0-----------0---------|--4--------------------------||
E||------------------------|--------------9--------------||


Verse 2

A                        Cm#
You used to captivate me by your resonating light
A                        Cm#
but now I'm bound by the life you left behind
A                   Cm#
Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
A                         Cm#
your voice it chased away all the sanity in me

(Main riff)
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/e/evanescence/my_immortal_tab_ver_12.html ]
      A                       Cm#
e||--------------9---------|--------4------9-------------||
B||------------------10----|------5—-(5)--------(9)------||
G||--------6-------9----9--|-------(6)--------(9)---(9)--|| x4
D||------7---7-------------|------6---6------------------||
A||--0-----------0---------|--4--------------------------||
E||------------------------|--------------9--------------||


Pre-Chorus

F#m                         C#m
   These wounds won't seem to heal
F#m                     C#m
    this pain is just too real
F#m                        E             E7
there's just too much that time cannot erase

Chorus

F#m     (C#m)  D   E         C#m
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
F#m       (C#m)   D   E          C#m        (Riff 2)
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your        fears
F#m     (C#m) D    E            C#m
And I've held your hand through all of these years
F#m    (C#m) D  E    (Riff 2)
but you sti…ill have         all of me


Riff 2 (this riff can be placed 2 differnt ways all depends in your way of playing
way)

     Esus4    E
e||------5-4----------|  OR  |-------------------||
B||----------5--------|      |------10-9---------||
G||------------4------| THIS |-----------9-------||
D||---2-----------2---|      |-------------9-----||
A||-------------------| WAY  |---7-----------7---||
E||--(0)--------------|      |--(0)--------------||


Bridge

D             F#m              E                 D
I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
F#m                  C#m
but though you're still with me
D             E
                                      I've been alone all along                   of
second time)
I´ve been alone, all alone


Instrumental (guitar solo, i dont have it)

F#m   D   E  C#m (x2 or play the solo instead)


Chorus

Chorus

F#m     (C#m)  D   E         C#m
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
F#m       (C#m)   D   E          C#m        (Riff 2)
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your        fears
F#m     (C#m) D    E            C#m
And I've held your hand through all of these years
F#m    (C#m) D  E    (Riff 2)
but you sti…ill have         all of me

Riff 2 (this riff can be placed 2 differnt ways all depends in your way of playing
way)

     Esus4    E
e||------5-4----------|  OR  |-------------------||
B||----------5--------|      |------10-9---------||
G||------------4------| THIS |-----------9-------||
D||---2-----------2---|      |-------------9-----||
A||-------------------| WAY  |---7-----------7---||
E||--(0)--------------|      |--(0)--------------||

Piano Outro

    A                       Cm#
e||--------------9---------|--------4------9-------------||
B||------------------10----|------5—-(5)--------(9)------||
G||--------6-------9----9--|-------(6)--------(9)---(9)--|| x4
D||------7---7-------------|------6---6------------------||
A||--0-----------0---------|--4--------------------------||
E||------------------------|--------------9--------------||

    A                        Cm#
e||----------------21-----------|---------------21---------------||
B||---------14-----------22-----|----------—-----------(21)------||
G||------14----14-----21----21--|---------18-------(21)----(21)--||
D||-----------------------------|------18----18------------------||
A||--12-------------------------|--16----------------------------||
E||-----------------------------|--------------------------------||

     A                            Cm#
e||----------------21-----------|---------------21---------------||
B||---------14-----------22-----|----------—-----------17--------||
G||------14----14-----21----21--|---------18--------------18-----||
D||-----------------------------|------18----18-----18-----------||
A||--12-------------------------|--16-------------------------0--||
E||-----------------------------|--------------------------------||
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