It's gonna rain...

所以是寫這東西的時候了。

先聲明我是個不算伊凡迷的伊凡迷，Fallen跟The Open Door都是下載來聽的（之後還是買了初回盤）。
在聽完Fallen之後查了很多地方，他們早期作品也都有聽過。

正題。

一聽說The Open Door快出了，比發售日早一個月就在鐵之狂傲下載到整片，很愉悅的放入MP3，聽了很多次。
AMY的聲音還是一樣有力，甚至讓我覺得太過了太用力了自己的喉嚨也很痛不過很棒。
好吧我要說的是剛聽完並沒有感到像剛聽完Fallen一樣的驚奇。
不過還是有幾首聽一次就縈繞在我腦中的。
很快歸結出來的是這風格比較接近Fallen之前的作品，如果對只聽過Fallen的迷來說是一次不錯的改變，但對我而言不是。
熟悉又陌生的旋律。
我覺得某些句子速度太慢了。
歌詞是我比較驚訝的部分，驚訝更正為疑問，比較缺少劇情與奇幻性（或者說是黑暗成分），大多數包含感情。
依照慣例我不喜歡按照曲子進行破碎的句子，這裡是我自己組裝過的歌詞。

某次開iTunes逛了一下Shop看了幾篇Reviews，佔絕大多數的是諸如伊凡塞斯王道的呼聲，略過。有一小部分包含了頗大的批評。"All the songs sounds alike to me." 佔了這小部分的大部分。 Just similar, lacking the uniqueness. It's a back step to fallen. 缺少了劇情跟旋律，比較多情緒，耐聽度沒有Fallen那麼強。吉他跑去哪裡了？每當有幾個不錯的橋段guitar就消失了只剩下鋼琴。

我已經聽這片專輯很多次了，我可以分辨哪一首是什麼旋律，歌詞也可以記一點，也許就是因為這樣我沒辦法判斷這張專輯到底是不是進步。
Amy的聲音可以說是獨挑大樑貫穿整張專輯，吉他跑哪了？歌詞也許影射了不少現實中的困難，團員大換血，寫歌的雖然還是Amy，但因此更情緒，更讓我有一種感覺這是Amy自己的專輯，從頭到尾的只有她，不是原本的伊凡塞斯。
也許不能把這張看作是伊凡塞斯的第二張作品，這是樂團在經歷重大改變之後硬生出來的，立場跟之前差太多，只是要告訴歌迷他們還在，希望歌迷能繼續支持。我知道有很多團能在第一張專輯推出之後，還能有完美的繼續創新發展，也許只是不適合套用在現在的伊凡塞斯上。他們之後的風格，要看下一張專輯的表現。

還是有很多很好的曲子，只是不能跟Fallen相比，這三年太久了，但想到經歷的變故，又覺得這很好，已經夠好了。

It's just GOOD ENOUGH for me.

歌詞節錄


Feels like the weight of the world, like God in heaven gave me a turn, like all my screaming has gone unheard.

- Weight Of The World

I want to stay in love with my sorrow, oh, but God, I want to let it go.

- Lithium

You'll never know the way your words have haunted me.
I can't believe you'd ask these things of me.
You don't know me.

I can't save your life, though nothing I bleed for is more tormenting.
I'm losing my mind and you just stand there and stare as my world divides.

- Snow White Queen

I can't change who I am.
Not this time, I won't lie to keep you near me.
And in this short life, there's no time to waste on giving up.
My love wasn't enough.

- Lacrymosa

I long to be like you, lie cold in the ground like you.

- Like You

All our lives, we've been waiting for someone to call our leader.

So afraid to open your eyes, hypnotized.
You know you're not the only one that never understood this life.
And you're right, I don't deserve you but you know I'm not the only one.

Don't look down, don't look into the eyes of the world beneath you.
Don't look down, you'll fall down, you'll become their sacrifice.

Right or wrong, can't hold onto the fear that I'm lost without you.
If I can't feel, I'm not mine, I'm not real.

- The Only One

Should I lock the last open door- My ghosts are gaining on me.

- All That I'm Living For

Now I can't let go of this dream.
Can't believe that I feel good enough,
I feel good enough.
It's been such a long time coming, but I feel good.

And I'm still waiting for the rain to fall, pour real life down on me.
'Cause I can't hold on to anything this good enough.

-Good Enough