Fallenbat 2007-08-29 03:11:44    

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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 2007-10-24 09:05:20    

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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 2007-11-23 17:09:22    

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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.

deadcalm 2007-12-31 10:27:27    

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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.

anonymous 2008-01-02 06:46:07    

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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.

anonymous 2008-03-05 16:18:37    

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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.

anonymous 2008-04-13 20:43:59    

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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.

tallgirl510 2008-05-20 13:07:20    

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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.

FollowYourStar 2008-07-24 17:38:17    

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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.