Evanescence - Everybody's Fool Meaning

Song Released: 2004

Everybody's Fool Lyrics

Perfect by nature
Icons of self indulgence
Just what we all need
More lies about a world that

Never was and never will be
Have you no shame don't you see me?
You know you've got everybody fooled

Look here she comes now
Bow down and...

1. anonymous

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   Mar 22nd 2007 !⃝

   Amy has said that this song is aimed twords Christina Agulara and Brittney Spiers (don't hate me if I spelled their names wrong) for using their bodies to get anywhere in music. And the part "look here she comes now, bow down and stair in wounder, oh how we love you, no flaws when your pretending" yeah it's talking about them and she thinks that women shouldn'y have to use their bodies to be famous or for anything.
2. Diedra

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   Mar 18th 2007 !⃝

   i feel this song has a vibe that says: popularity. at schools, there are many diverse groups vaguely innertwining with others. for instance; there were, and always will be, a "popular" group of kids. I feel Everybody's Fool is a simple reminder that who you are during your school years very rarely stay along for the ride of life. The verse:'and somehow now you're everybody's fool' tell a large sum of the story behind the lyrics. The popular people may have made many a person feel inferior and they may have set themselves atop a fake pedestal, but, eventually, time will catch up with them and thay shall feel their own torment and despair.
3. anonymous

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   Feb 9th 2007 !⃝

   Amy, I believe, personally said this song is about her sister. It's about what people see, v. reality. Since Amy alone can see the reality of the who the song is about, (if it's not actually about her sister) all the lies torment her. She feels distraught and powerless since everyone believes the lies instead of her.

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4. anonymous

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   Jan 13th 2007 !⃝

   I think it's about Amy tricking everyone into thinking she's happy (because in the video she smiles at the mirror trying to look happy, and as their putting on her make up she's not smiling.) but truly she is troubled and lonely in her social life, she has low self esteem and doesn't feel good about herself.
5. Evanescencefreak

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   Oct 2nd 2006 !⃝

   I just think this song is about a total faker. And how amy see's this person for what they really are, a liar.
6. anonymous

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   Sep 30th 2006 !⃝

   Obviously, it's about all these "fake", "cheesy" (same words used by amy lee herself in an interview) singers.
7. MRO1989

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   Jul 10th 2006 !⃝

   I remember reading that this song is about how her little sister liked Britney Spears, and Amy told her how Britney was fake. Good song, by the way.

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8. Deckard88

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   Jun 9th 2006 !⃝

   No, this song was written specially for me..because seriously, I'm a fake lol

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9. Evanescencefreak

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   Jun 9th 2006 !⃝

   It's kinda wierd, because she goes from what sounds like a girl (I mean that's who she's talking to) and then going to talking to a guy.
   
   For ex:
   
   look here she comes now
   bow down and stare in wonder
   oh how we love you
   no flaws when your pretending
   
   that sounds like she's talking to a girl
   
   I know the truth now
   I know who you are
   and I don't love you anymore
   
   and that sounds like she's talking to a girl
10. anonymous

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    May 20th 2006 !⃝

    I know as a matter of fact that this song is about Britney Spears, being a great singer, then turning into...let's just say going the opposite direction.

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11. AwayFromMe

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    May 6th 2006 !⃝

    This song is about somebody you ["you" as in people in general] once knew very well and loved very much but then figured out they were only hiding behind a mask, not showing their true self. The relationship you had with that person was all a lie and you feel betrayed.
12. anonymous

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    Mar 16th 2006 !⃝

    I believe it was Amy herself who said that this song is about Brittany Spears. And how she's not what people think she is. I might be wrong.

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13. anonymous

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    Mar 3rd 2006 !⃝

    I think it's about a girl who's mad at her self for being all these people and not being herself
14. anonymous

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    Jan 20th 2006 !⃝

    I can't do a logical interpretation of this song justice. The music video might help you in understanding it. Signifigant is the focus of the movie on herself. The use of the mirror, her hating what was in the mirror; she hurts herself with what she sees. She tries to 'wash herself clean' in the bathtub, it would seem.
    
    This song is about herself. She's singing to herself. She's lied to everyone about who she is, including herself. And when she sees it...
    
    "I know the truth now
    I know who you are
    And I don't love you anymore"
    
    Notice the line,
    
    "But now I know she..."
    
    also,
    
    "Don't you see me?"
    
    "You don't know how you betrayed me."
    
    The other part of this is she knows her worldview was totally skewed, and now she sees clearly; a paradigm shift, if you will.
    
    She is singing to herself. She betrayed herself; She hates who she was and who it made her. She recognizes she was fake and despises it, and knows that sho she pretended to be 'never was and never will be.'
    
    Here's to you Daniel; You fooled us all.