anonymous April 16th, 2006 01:04AM  
Ok this is so about suicide, even though people who leave/are left could probably relate to it. But look up songs about suicide on wikipedia, it's on it, but you just have to listen to the lyrics to figure it out. and if you don't belive me look it up on wikkipedia under "list of songs about suicide"

Deckard88 April 22nd, 2006 10:52AM  
This is about Amy Lee (if she's singing about herself) having a heartbreak for having to leave her significant other, due to a misunderstanding, and yet she still loves him and can't possibly forget him. In this song, it seems as if 'You' doesn't even care about what she's going through.

Evanescencefreak April 29th, 2006 09:19PM  
Yep, she's whispering "can you stop to fight her, can you stand to fight her, you can't stop her, you won't see the words."

If you listen to the original version (recorded by them around 1999) its a slower song, so you can understand every word. (unlike the version in anywhere but home)

AwayFromMe May 6th, 2006 10:43PM  
I think this song talks about how people, even though they may deny it, deep down they know people don't seem to take notice to them and if they do, they don't care about them. They want to be noticed and loved, but deep inside, they know nobody will miss them even if they did actually see them and they can't do anything about their longing.

Evanescencefreak June 9th, 2006 07:19PM  
Most people think this may be about her sister who died at age three, but I know it isn't. Because I can relate to it exactly. I broke up with this guy and when I saw him with other girls, I couldn`t take it. Then I told him how I felt. Later that week, his friend Geoffery told me about *ahem* Jason`s "hate list". I`m on it. I feel like I`ve been left in the dark and all alone. I miss him so much. But most of the time, I pretend to hate him to turn sadness into anger and keep the tears from coming that much.




UHHGGGHHH just stop! just because you can relate to it exactly, (or so you say) doesn't mean that's what it's about!!! ok, many ppl can relate 2 a lot of songs, but that doesn't necessarily mean that that's what that songs about! so just stop!! for all you know, you could b way off.

anonymous September 14th, 2006 05:42AM  
I think it's about feeling alone and in the dark and feeling like no one cares about you. Like...If you were gone, missing would anyone care?

And btw not every fricken song is about a realtionship people! There are other things you can sing about in a god damn song!

anonymous September 30th, 2006 09:56AM  
Someone above asked what she is saying at the start of the song. I think she says things like:
"you can't stop the fire", "you won't say the word please" and a lot of other things mixed together which I can't understand. But it doesn't matter anyway, the song rocks.
People say it's about her committing suicide, but I think it's about someone close to her who committs suicide from the lyrics "I know what you do to yourself, I breathe deep and cry out". Because this person is attempting suicide amy feels she has to get away from it as there is nothing she can do to stop this person. I think that when she sings aloud the lyrics "am I that unimportant, am I so insignificant, isn't something missing, isn't someone missing me" she is saying to this suicidal person 'what about me, if you kill yourself you'll leave me alone, why am I nothing to live for, am I not important to you? Why would you leave me in the dark feeling so
insignificant!'. From paul. Thanx for letting me share my vews on this song which is very important to me. Visit my myspace at www.Myspace.Com/fidosuperbrat666 there's some cool evanescence stuff on it.

immortalnight October 11th, 2006 05:46PM  
I can agree with those who are sayings its suicide and it's about a hurting relationship.

The song does hint at suicide, but I think it's talking about amy (or whoever has the point of view) being in a relationship where she's ignored, put down, and even hated, but apparently has stayed in the relationship for some time now.
Perhaps she is now thinking of suicide, and wondering; asking if she'd be missed is she did die.

anonymous November 10th, 2006 02:36AM  
"maybe some day you will wake up
and barely conscious you'll say to no one
"isn't something missing?"

the song is about two people breaking up. She still loves him but he doesn't feel the same way. She hopes that one day he'll realize what he missed out on, and feel like she does, as if a piece of his life is missing.
I came to the conclusion she was still in love with him when she says "though i'd die to know you love me, I'm all alone."
she is aware his feelings for her probably won't be the same.

Chocolate November 12th, 2006 05:43AM  
When I was depressed, I connected with this song the most. I thought I was in love, and the person I was in love with knew it. So it was an awkward thing, because he treated me like I was nothing. He wasn't mean or anything, but sometimes, it seemed like he didn't know I was there at all. I wondered if i'd had left him, would he notice that I had gone?

I wouldn't go so far as suicide, because there's not much in the rest of the song that supports the idea of suicide, except for the bleeding part. The bleeding part is simply dramatic symbolism on how she can do whatever, and yet he still won't care. She can cry, cut, or die and he still won't care. However, the song is not all about suicide.

In my opinion, it's about her and a guy. There's sooo much in the song about intimacy, so if anyone says that it's not about a relationship, I seriously disagree with you.

anonymous December 7th, 2006 08:50PM  
I don't think it's actually about suicide, it's about having faith in people.
I don't think that it's about a guy. I think it's about a girl and her mother. The mother is an alcoholic or something, and has sort of stopped caring for the girl. The girl is desperate to know if her mother loves her, but there's never any proof. I think that she commits suicide or runs away, and the mother feels a piece of her missing. It proves that there's always an attachment there, no matter if it shows or not.

anonymous December 20th, 2006 07:07AM  
before I say something a reminder that this is my interpretation of the song and that everyone has an opinion.

i think this song is about how Amy(or someone) is in a relationship of a kind, and the partner dosent pay attention to her so she's unimportant and insignifecent to her partner. So Amy decides to leave and not come back. To her partner everything normal . So Amys asking "isnt something missing?" well to the partner not so after all they've been through he dosen't care and Amy knows this. But she wants the partner to care. In the opening lines of the song

Can you stop the fire, (Please, please)
i think this means that there's a problem in there relationship and she wants it to stop


Can you stand to fight her, (Please, please)
the partners having an affair and amy knows about it and is saying "can you not to be with her, can you stand to be with me"

You can't stop the fire (Please, please)
so his not going to stop this problem
his going to let it continue

You won't say the words (Please, please, please)
his not going to say the words to make everything better

with the pleases I think Amy's Begging him to stop

the chorus

Even though I'm the sacrifice
You won't try for me - not now
Though I'm dying to know you love me
I'm all alone
Isn't someone missing me?


shes the sacrifice in the relationship its not important for her to be in it. The partners not going to try to make things better, and she's dying to know if he ever loved her really, but she's all alone and wonders if she'll be missed in this relationship

as I said at the begining this what I think you can think what you like its your opinion

anonymous January 1st, 2007 05:15PM  
Ok I could be way wrong, but it seems to me not to be about suicide. I think it is about living or being around people who never notice you, who never have the time or inclination to notice you. So you leave but even then they don't really care that much. Correct me if I'm wrong but if someone commited suicide there would be a stronger reaction to it than is written in this song.

anonymous March 11th, 2007 06:47PM  
To me, missing is about caring about someone who obviously doesn't care for you back. It shows how cold and alone a person can feel when they don't feel the love they deserve to have from example: a family member, parents or anyone that you love. I hold this song very close to my heart. My mother is a very complicated, depressive character, who disowned me, threw me out into the cold, abandoned me for good. I have felt that way all my life, and finally she kinda let me go, her final words were she never wants anything to do with me again. I listen to this song, and every word, the feeling of the song I dedicate just to my feelings of my relationship with my mother.
If you have ever been "thrown away", by someone, anyone, this song depicts the true emotion I believe.

anonymous April 16th, 2007 03:51PM  
the lines "Please, please forgive me, but I won't be home again" and you won't cry for my absence, I know, you forgot me long ago" could mean anything. This could be a song about running away from home. who knows? and I looked it up on wikipedia, under "list of songs about suicide", and it wasnt there.

anonymous June 23rd, 2007 03:36PM  
Ok call me stupid, but as we all know everyone gets different interpretations of this song, but I believe one way it can be is Religion, Christianity even. It seems to be about a sinner saying I won't be in church again (I won't be home again)and Jesus is saying in return "hey I died for you, because I thought you loved me and it would make you love me." and also saying one day you'll realize that your missing something.. or someone.. me but afraid to admit wrong so you keep it you yourself... but that's just me.

Fallenbat August 29th, 2007 03:11AM  
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.

anonymous October 24th, 2007 09:05AM  
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

anonymous November 23rd, 2007 05:09PM  
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.

deadcalm December 31st, 2007 10:27AM  
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.