Lee discusses Fallen and The Open Door

In 2006, Lee said that when she listened back to Fallen , she “hear[d] all the vulnerability and the fear and all the childish things in me that are just human.” While Lee was drowning in the misery of her experiences in Fallen , she said The Open Door is largely about her acknowledging her issues and deliberating “what do I have to do to work this out.” “There were things for me to get over”, she explained. “I could just have shut up and stayed stuck in a lot of negative situations and not done anything, and on the outside it would have looked like everything was fine for me”. In the record, she is “purging the trials”, but overall it comes from a less hopeless place and with a more reflective outlook. She also used her experience as a lone female and “hard adjustment” with the fame the Fallen era brought as inspiration for the album.