who wrote the song you lift me up
You Raise Me Up "You Raise Me Up" is a song originally composed by Irish-Norwegian duo Secret Garden. The music was written by Secret Garden's Rolf Løvland and the lyrics by Brendan Graham. After the song was performed early in 2002 by the Secret Garden and their invited lead singer, Brian Kennedy, the song only became a minor UK hit. The song has been recorded by more than a hundred other artists including Josh Groban, who popularized the song in 2003; his rendition became a hit in the United States. The Irish band Westlife then popularized the song in the UK two years later.[1]
Bring Me to Life According to the sheet music published by Alfred Music Publishing on the website Musicnotes.com, "Bring Me to Life" is set in common time and performed in a moderate tempo of 95 beats per minute. It is written in the key of E minor and Lee's vocal range for the song runs from the low note of A3 to the high note of D5.[11] In the song, 12 Stones vocalist Paul McCoy sings the lines "Wake me up/ I can't wake up/ Save me!" in a rap style.[12][13] The St. Petersburg Times' Brian Orloff called the song a "boffo hit" in which Lee sang the lines "'Call my name and save me from the dark' over surging guitars."[1] Ann Powers from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote: "'Bring Me to Life,' with its lyrical drama and crunchy guitars, branded the band as overdone nu-metal."[14] Blender writer Nick Catucci called the song a "crossover goth-metal smash".[15] Kristi Turnquist of The Oregonian called the song a power ballad.[16]