Evanescence: Missing Meaning
Song Released: 2004
Missing Lyrics
But I won't be home again.
Maybe someday you'll look up,
And, barely conscious, you'll say to no one:
"Isn't something missing?"
You won't cry for my absence, I know -
You forgot me long ago.
Am I that...
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I've read reviews, interpretations, etc. about this song. A lot of people insisted that this is about suicide. I don't think this is a song about suicide. But please don't flame my interpretation.
~Please, please forgive me,
But I won't be home again.
Maybe someday you'll look up,
And, barely conscious, you'll say to no one:
"Isn't something missing?"~
That person is asking forforgiveness because he/she is leaving his/her home or the relationship he/she is i. And it seems like that person is hoping that the other person notices how important the person is (Why don't we try calling the person Amy?) It also seems like the line "Barely Concious"means that while the other person is dying. It's impossible not to notice the absence of Amy. Don't take it too literally. In other ords, that person notices the absence of Amy, but could care less.
~You won't cry for my absence, I know -
You forgot me long ago.
Am I that unimportant...?
Am I so insignificant...?
Isn't something missing?
Isn't someone missing me?~
See? The person DOES notice Amy's absence but just don't care. Like I said, don't take it too literally. "You forgot me long ago" It seems impossible to completely forget Amy... It could mean that Amy lost her place in the person's heart (uf she ever had a place) Then she's wondering if anyone is missing her. -
A while ago I really cared for this one person they were my life I lived to try and please them but they didn't notice my feelings and didn't want them and I disillusioned myself that they would return my feelings 1 day but I learned it would never happen and they would never return how I felt and I could disappear tomorrow and they wouldn't notice they wouldn't care they didn't know I really existed yet I wanted them to miss me morn me and want me back and they controlled my every emotion my happiness I felt and it was devastating,and that is think that is what this song is about
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"Can you stop the fire?"
I believe this means that anger or pain is raging inside, almost to the point where it burns, and the person who caused it is the only one who can help. A few moments later, "You can't stop the fire, you won't say the words." Maybe the words are, "I'm sorry" or "I forgive you"?
"You forgot me long ago"
When I hear that line, I imagine the person who forgot as one who uses people (and then tosses the people away, like rag dolls, when they are no longer pleasing).
But that's just my opinion. -
This song has a strong air of loss in it. It most likely, in my opinion, represents a relationship (most definitely romantic) gone wrong. I'm not sure about the circumstances or timing of Amy Lee's and the lead singer from Seether's issues, but this song may have been written about that.
I think everyone can relate to this song at least once in their lives, whether it's because someone's being over dramatic about a boy/girl or they really have experienced a terrible relationship loss. -
I don´t think this song is another break-up song. And I don´t think it is about suicide. What I think is that it´s about running away from home.
The girl feels left behind by her family, forgotten, not beloved by them. And she can´t take the pain anymore and runs away, desperate- because she feels nobody loves her and nobody is gonna miss her...
There have been many things that may have gone so wrong- and she wants her family (her mother?) to forgive her. But still she needs to go, run away, to start a new life, start all over again, a new chance- forget the past...
She wants their fights to be over- she wants to be the sacrifice that they can end- but she can´t stay... because she was hurt too much...
If that´s her story- it´s mine as well...
Well, to make you see why I think so:
Please, please forgive me,
But I won't be home again.
Maybe someday you'll look up,
And, barely conscious, you'll say to no one:
"Isn't something missing?"
> There have been so many fights at home. The girl feels nobody loves her, nobody cares about her. She wants them to forgive her- but she has to go... She can´t take it anymore... She can´t stay- because it makes her cry- she needs to go, find something new, start all over again... and she feels they won´t even notice she´s gone...
You won't cry for my absence, I know -
You forgot me long ago.
Am I that unimportant...?
Am I so insignificant...?
Isn't someone missing me?
> They have stopped loving her so long ago... They forgot her, forgot about her feelings... don´t care about her... and she feels so lonely, hurt, feels that she doesn´t meen anything to them...
Even though I'm the sacrifice,
You won't try for me, not now.
Though I'd die to know you love me,
I'm all alone.
Isn't someone missing me?
> She wants the fights to end- so she will sacrifice herself that they can stop- she leaves... and knows that they won´t try to get her back- because they stopped caring about her so long ago... She´s all by herself, alone... and no one is missing her... Her mother hasn´t told her that she loved her- for so long... and she craves to hear these words... but she knows there´s no way back for them- no chance for them- too much has happened... and she asks a rethorical question- if anyone is missing her... but she already knows the answer deep in her heart
Please, please forgive me,
But I won't be home again.
I know what you do to yourself,
I breathe deep and cry out,
"Isn't something missing?
Isn't someone missing me?"
> well, here are many possibilities- I´m not really sure about what she means here... So I´ll let this out... Maybe someone is drinking or hurting himself... And she doesn´t want that person to do that...
And if I bleed, I'll bleed,
Knowing you don't care.
And if I sleep just to dream of you
I'll wake without you there,
Isn't something missing?
Isn't something...
> then this is clear again- she thinks about scratching herself / or did- and her mother doesn´t care... The girl knows her mother won´t even notice it... She could bleed to death and nobody would notice...
i can so much relate to this song- it makes me sad- and I listen to it whenever I fought again with my family... especially my mother... There is no chance for us, either. And I´m gonna go as well- I know that they don´t care... I scratched myself some time ago... I did it for a long time- and they didn´t notice... She didn't tell me that she loves me... I can't even imagine her saying it anymore... and though I'd love to hear these words- I know that it can´t change anything- too much has happened... There´s just no way back...
That´s what I think this song is dealing with... -
This is my first try at interpretation, so... yeah.
But when I heard this, I thought of betrayal.
"Please, please forgive me,
But I won't be home again.
Maybe someday you'll look up,
And, barely conscious, you'll say to no one:
"Isn't something missing?" "
--Maybe she did something to deserve the betrayal, so she's asking for forgiveness. She's so ashamed of what she did, she's running away from her problems, physically or mentally, and she's hoping that maybe the person she wronged won't be too angry and eventually miss her.
"You won't cry for my absence, I know -
You forgot me long ago.
Am I that unimportant...?
Am I so insignificant...?
Isn't something missing?
Isn't someone missing me?"
-- Even though she's hoping that the person will forgive her, she knows that they won't care if she goes- they're that angry. She feels that if they could forget her that quickly, she must me insignificant and unimportant. She wasnts somebody, anybody, to miss her.
"Even though I'm the sacrifice,
You won't try for me, not now.
Though I'd die to know you love me,
I'm all alone.
Isn't someone missing me?"
-- The person she'd betrayed is 'sacrificing' her, and she knows that they won't stop just because she feels bad about it. She is still in love with the person, but she knows that they hate her.
"Please, please forgive me,
But I won't be home again.
I know what you do to yourself,
I breathe deep and cry out,
"Isn't something missing?
Isn't someone missing me?" "
-- Again, she wants to be forgiven for what she did, and she's saying again that she won't be home again. Maybe the person to whom she's singing is upset about the whole affair and hurts themselves, and she wants them to stop because she still feels somehting for tem. And still, she wants to be noticed and missed.
"And if I bleed, I'll bleed,
Knowing you don't care.
And if I sleep just to dream of you
I'll wake without you there,
Isn't something missing?
Isn't something... "
-- The girl knows that no matter what she does, the one she loves still won't care about her. This part is her basically professing her love. -
I think you're perfectly right, but I guess it may not be be about an addicted person, but the song can also be about someone who's wearing a mask or tortures himself in some kind of way and the 'main character'/singer can't take it anymore to be leaned on to and just being taken advantage of or something and decides to run away.
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I don't know where you all are getting the idea that this song is about suicide. Lines like, "and barely conscious you'll say to no one" and "I know what you do to yourself." Also, "You won't try for me"....I'm getting the impression that this song describes a woman that loves a man that is either choosing drugs and/or alcohol over her and though he desperately wants to choose her, he's choosing the substances instead so she is left with no choice but to leave him. Although it sounds like she loves him and doesn't want to loose him, she's realizing that she can't stay in a relationship with someone that chooses to live like that. Lines like "you forgot me long ago" make me think that he pretty much stopped caring when the drugs took over or whatever substance we're talking about....just my opinion.
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I think this song is about a person who either commits suicide or runs away. They are saying that no one will notice or care when they are gone.
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I think it's about a son/daughter who has abusive parents and if they left the parents wouldn't care. "You won't cry for my absence I know, you forgot me long ago," means that the parents forgot about the child and kept abusing them because maybe they don't want a relationship with the child. And they wouldn't cry for their absence because they don't love the child. "Though I die to know you love me, I'm all alone," pretty much means that the child wants to know if its parents love him/her, and he/she is all alone because the parents don't care about them.
It could also be about girl who was in love with a guy and the guy thought she was worthless and nothing. And if she died, he wouldn't care. But there are many interpretations for this song, or at least I think, and I think it means a few different things. I can also relate to this song, and I sang this song for my best friend one time, and she totally related to it because she had abusive parents. But like I said, there are many many interpretations for this song. -
Well, I'm not good in interpreting lyrics, but I can tell what
I feel while listening to Missing.( Forgive a german girl her horrible english)
I am pretty deep in love with a classmate( I call him L) of mine. His best friend( I call him C) was/is in love with me, but I denied him. I think L got mad at me for rejecting his friend, he tried to bring us together( though I hardly noticed it).
There are more reasons why he hates me now, but they are not important now.
He never really knew and knows me, he would never understand my feelings. No matter what I do he'll never love me back. I'd do anything just to be loved by him because there is no one in this world loving me back. I'm killing slowly my myself with my eating disorder I just tried to be pretty enough for him. I was fat and even though I'm now kinda skinny I won't accept myself. I've cut myself several times now, but he will not care. My mother is loving someone else now. my brother also has got a girlfriend. Why does no one sees my pain? Everybody can see my scars on my wrist, nobody cares.
They, he will never love me back so I'll stop loving and go away. -
I enjoyed reading the interpretations on this one. It depends on how you see it. I'd agree that it could mean suicide and I never thought about it at first. my take is that she felt like she was forgotten that it seems like she didn't matter even the least so she's hurt inside. only the writer of the song really knows.
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I don't think this songs suicidal,
i think it has some relation to self harming, as I know when I went through a rough time and started self harming I could relate to this song A LOT.
especially the lyrics:
And if I bleed, I'll bleed,
Knowing you don't care.
i fell out with my best friend (more like brother, we're that close) he'd usually be the one caring, but now I knew he weren't there no more.
i was bleeding knowing he didn't care.
Am I that unimportant...?
EVERYTHING WE HAD, IS IT NOT IMPORTANT TO YOU?
HOW CAN YOU JUST FORGET?
You won't try for me, not now.
YOU'VE GIVEN UP ON ME,
"not now" is suggesting that something significant has happened, as you would have tried for me, but after what I've done you won't now.
A break up?
something along those lines.
Though I'd die to know you love me.
I STILL LOVE YOU THOUGH.
"missing" is one of the best songs I've ever heard.
it's so touching. -
This one is kinda out there.
I think she's dying. Not committing suicide... I mean something has happened to her. I think maybe she was in an accident or something. She's lying there, dying. She's scared and all by herself. "And if I bleed, I'll bleed,
Knowing you don't care." maybe she expecting someone to save her, and they're not coming so she turns angry, not really fully understanding the situation she's in. And when she starts realizing some things "please forgive me, but I won't be home again" she's realizing she's dying -
Here's what I think: (please read it even though it's long!)
A girl was on the wrong path- suicidal or something- and she loved her boyfriend so she promised him she'd change- but then she found out that he was just as bad (I know what you do to yourself) but her love for him was still more important. Then something happened- maybe she had to move away- and away from him she thought she could do whatever she wanted because he couldn't see- but she still felt bound to keep her promises to him as proof to herself that she really loves him, that she hasn't been fooling herself- because if she hadn't loved him she never would have promised to begin with.The first verse (Please, please forgive me, but...maybe someday...) means that if she did kill herself, he would never know- (also "and if I bleed, I'll bleed, knowing you don't care). Finally, "And if I sleep just to dream of you, I'll wake without you there"- she's living the way she doesn't want to (if she wants to live at all!) so she still thinks she has love, but he can't be there with her anyway.
The only line that I don't get is 'Can you stand to fight her' unless 'her' refers to temptation or something... The rest of that makes sense- "can you stop the fire"- can you give up love to do what you want.
Maybe Amy had promised a boyfriend that she would never try to kill herself or take drugs- and then the pressures of life made it tempting... or maybe he promised her... That would explain the 'Can you stand to fight her'
The only other way I can think of it is the same as I just said, but instead of a boyfriend, she was in love with someone who talked to her but never knew... and if as a friend he said he was worried about her she decided to change because she loved him... actually that makes more sense to me.
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