This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Playground school bell rings again
Rain clouds come to play again
Has no one told you she's not breathing?
Hello I'm your mind giving you someone to talk to
Hello
If I smile and don't believe
Soon I know I'll wake from this dream
Don't try to fix me I'm not broken
Hello I'm the lie living for you so you can hide
Don't cry
Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping
Hello I'm still here
All that's left of yesterday
Rain clouds come to play again
Has no one told you she's not breathing?
Hello I'm your mind giving you someone to talk to
Hello
If I smile and don't believe
Soon I know I'll wake from this dream
Don't try to fix me I'm not broken
Hello I'm the lie living for you so you can hide
Don't cry
Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping
Hello I'm still here
All that's left of yesterday
Lyrics submitted by rjbucs28, edited by AnekoYoru, TheBananaWoman
Hello Lyrics as written by Ben Moody Amy Lee
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My take: this is someone who's in shock. "Playground schoolbell rings, again/Rainclouds come to play, again" I think the schoolbell is refering to a child that has died. Maybe this is the mother? Rainclouds are like the sadness clouding her mind. "Has no one told you she's not breathing ?/Hello, I am your mind, giving you someone to talk to... Hello... " This is the person's subconscious, a little voice in their head trying to bring them back to reality. The person doesn't want to believe someone has died, and is conflicted. "If I smile and don't believe/Soon I know I'll wake from this dream" She's smiling, like saying "Yea they're dead, ok." But she doesn't really believe it. She thinks its all a dream and she'll wake up soon. "Don't try to fix me/I'm not broken" She's getting mad that everyone keeps asking if she's ok, is eveything alright. She thinks, Of course I'm alright, nothing's wrong. "I am the lie living for you so you can hide/don't cry" There's the little voice again, trying to keep the person sane. This line is like the person is just kind of living their life in the moment, trying not to think about whatever has happened. But inside, she is falling apart. "Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping/ Hello, I'm still here, all that's left/Of yesterday.." Realization. She realizes she is still around, while their loved one is dead. Didn't mean to go that far into it... But Evanescence makes me think. (Geez I did the whole song...)
i agree with u. i joined this site cuz im too lazy to figure out meanings my self. some times i try lol.
@linkinparkitten this is a really good outlook on the interpretation of the lyrics. I found the song after surviving 7 years of sexual abuse and listened to it on repeat for days crying my eyes out. I chose to Apply " domestic violence" to it rather than "death"and it worked for many years. <br /> Your perspective on it made me think of it as the "death of my childhood" years I will never get back because of a monster. You did good. Thank you xx
I agree that this is about her sister's death. She was a child and that's why there's references to playgrounds. Being a child she didn't understand what had happened. when someone told her her sister wasn't coming back, her coping device was denial. When she finally realized the reality of this, it was a huge blow to her, that's why she says that she knows she's not sleeping. It's the whole "This isn't a nightmare. She won't come back." thing we go through when we're little and lose a pet, a friend or a family member. It's actually a really depressing song, but still a beautiful one.
I KNOW THE ACTUAL MEANING OF THIS SONG. THIS IS NOT MY OPINION. I KNOW HER FAMILY. SHE GRADUATED FROM MY HIGH SCHOOL AND I AM FRIENDS WITH HER SISTER.
its about her sister bonnie who drowned in the bathtub when she was 3 or 4. i'm not positive but im pretty sure that amys a little bit older than bonnie was. they think she might have had a seziere b/c her brother robbie suffers from sezieres. this song is means a lot to me b/c my mom had a miscarrage and my dad died.
I'm sorry to hear that
That's what I thought it was about. This song is so sad, yet so meaningful. It can mean different things to different people. For instance: When I was 5 years old, shortly before I started school, I only had one friend- my cat Critter. She was a calico that was so sweet. I went to put some clothes in my closet one day and heard a strange sound coming from the closet area of my room. I thought it was my uncle messing with someting in the closet, yet when I looked in, there was no one in there. I noticed the sound coming from behind my dresser, and looked only to see my cat with her head sticking out from under the bottom of the dresser. I called my mum into my room yelling that Critter was stuck and making noise. We pulled her out carefully and took her outside. What I think was happening to her was that her lungs were collapsing and she was trying to breathe. A couple hours later, while I was giving her a hug to say good-bye, she died. In my arms.<br /> This song reminds me of that because when I started school, I wanted to go home and give her a hug. But all that was left of her was the three kittens she had a bit before she died. So to me, this song reminds me of that.
gosh. i love this song, but ive never cried while listening to it. the story about Critter made me cry. i have a soft spot for animals.
aw the story about Critter made me cry too<br /> this song is so emotional, it seems to bring some memory of loss for everybody who listens to it x
I think this song can be interpreted in a few ways. For instance, the person in this song has mentally re-created a lost loved one so that they might resist the anguish of such a loss. This song is an ongoing battle between the person's consience and thier re-creation.
Another way it can be percieved is that the person in this song is emotionally dead, living a life without purpose. They are at a constant battle with their concience, and thier hungry soul is pulling the life out of them.
I think this song is about someone who is trying to cope with the death of someone close to them. They are in shock and don't believe that the person has died. They know it has happened, but they can't believe it. I think it is taken from a child's perspective. Maybe the mother died?
I've heard that this song is about her three year old sister dying when she was herself was six years old<br /> if thats correct then you were pretty close in evuating this song :P
huh... I always thought she was talking about herself. like as if she was was trying to get rid of the lie that every one thought she was and just be herself. But you guys' story probably makes more sence.
I don't think this song is about death when she sings "Has no one told you she's not breathing?"
These lines show you what it's really about: "Hello, I'm your mind, giving you someone to talk to...Hello.." "Hello, I'm the lie living for you so you can hide... "
'She' is her true self, and hiding it for so long she feels she's suffocating her true self. She hides it with a lie that she is happy, she hides it because she is unhappy with herself.
My favourite line in this song has to be: "Don't try to fix me I'm not broken"
She's sad, but she isn't broken so don't try to fix her. She just wants to find peace, be happy with her true self.
I ACCEPT AND APPRICATE ALL THE COMMENTS PEOPLE HAVE MADE AS I THINK THIS PARTICULAR SONG CAN BE INTERPRATED IN DIFFERENT WAYS.
IT HAD NEVER CROSSED MY MIND TILL I READ YOUR COMMENTS THAT IT WAS ASSOCIATED WITH DEATH, BUT I UNDERSTAND NOW.
MY OWN PERSONAL OPINION OF THE SONG IS THAT SOMEONE WHO IS HIDING FROM THEMSELVES AND LIVING A LIE TO CONCEAL THE COMPLETLY SHATTERED PERSON THAT LIES WITHIN.
PROVES EVIDENT TO MY POINT THAT THE PERSON WITHIN IS SO BROKEN AND SCARED THEY HAVW TO CONVINCE THEMSLEVES THEY ARE FINE.
THIS PERSON HAS BECOME SO ISOLATED THEY FEEL THE NEED TO BE REMINDED THEY ARE THERE STILL THERE.
I THINK THIS LINE IS REALLY SIGNIFICANT. IT IS LIKE SHE IS SAYING '' MAYBE WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME IS JUST A NIGHTMARE, IF I SMILE ON THE OUTSIDE AND PRETEND IM OKAY, MAYBE IL WAKE UP.
THIS IS ALSO SAYING ' IM NOT ALIVE IN HERE.''
THATS JUST MY INTERPRATATION, IM SURE EVERYONES IS DIFFERENT. =D
I LOVEEEEEE EVANSCENCE AND AMY LEE IS ISNPARATIONAL
Amy Lee is a surviving sibling, this is her response to her little sisters death. She was at school when it happened. She is calling out to her parents,letting them know that she is still there and she is not dead. She wants attention from them :)
So its about her sister. When I first heard it I saw it being different. I imagined it being that some little kids are playing at a playground. One girl accidentallypushes her friend and her friend falls. When she doesn't get up someone goes and gets their parents. The little girl had hit her head and she dies. The other girl tries to shut it out instead of blaming herself. This is where the song starts. " Playrground school bell rings again. Rainclouds come to play, again. Has no one told you she's not breathing?" She's at school, still, and rainclouds are there. Literally in that it still rains like normal, and also representing peoples sadness. People try to tell her the girl is dead as she tries not to listen. "Hello, I'm your mind, giving you someone to talk to..." She's in shock, instead of facing the real world her mind becomes someone else she can talk to. "If I smile and don't believe, Soon I know I'll wake from this dream/Don't try to fix me I'm not broken" She smiles like normal and pretends its just a dream, she doesn't believe any of it. People should stop asking her if she's ok. She's perfectly fine, because nothing happened.
"Hello, I'm the lie living for you so you can hide...don't cry..." She starts to realize she's lying to herself, and her mind becomes the lie, telling her to let it continue, and not to cry or even think about it. "Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping. Hello...I'm still here, all that's left of yesterday..." She has to realize what happened, and knows she's not dreaming, its real. But that voice is still there in her head, someone to talk to, some fragment of yesterday.