A brotherly warm hug to all my brothers and sisters who struggle with depression, bipolar disorders or any kind of related mental health issue, and who are listening to this song, living in the flesh the deep sadness, the pain, and the dark, subtle desperation that are embedded in each note and word. We need to stay strong. Much love, and sympathies for each one of you. 2022 Edit: Almost three years ago, I wrote this message thinking that it may share a bit of light and love to (and from) a lonely person who just felt as lost as me, and who was in pain while listening to this beautiful song, which I love and means so much to me. I mostly thought that my words would be lost, and nobody would read them, even though I meant them wholeheartedly. Never did I imagine that I was going to get 2k likes and 70 comments of so many beautiful people sharing their stories of pain, of struggle, but also of hope and strength. I wish I could reply to all of you, but I always read your comments, and they all bring tears to my eyes. Tears of empathy, and also of love, gratitude and appreciation. Mental health issues tend to feel so lonely... but we are not alone, as this beautiful song and experience after an innocent and sincere comment has shown us. We're bound together by this song, my brothers and sisters, and by our own journey trying to heal. We are not alone. We have each other. I really love you. Each and every single one of you. And from the bottom of my heart i want to say THANK YOU, THANK YOU SO MUCH. Don't give up, and know that, even when you feel the most alone, in the darkest dark, someone here in this comment section of an Evanescence song loves you and is praying for your recovery and well being. I really mean it. Dear brothers and sisters: I LOVE YOU ALL.
100% agree. I only listen to this song for that part...and the part right after that says, "I'm the lie living for you so you can hide". I get chills running down my spine hearing those three sentences. They're VERY meaningful to me. I plan on my first tattoo saying, "Don't try to fix me. I'm not broken". That is how powerful that lyric is to me...and I don't really care much for Evanescence!!
I grew up on this stuff and was edgy asf as a kid. I was born in 2003 so like imagine a 3 year old that ONLY will listen to Linkin Park, Evanescence, Metallica, and the bands in that genre. Imagine a three year old screaming "I'VE BECOME SO NUMB I CAN'T FEEL YOU THERE!!!" like 24/7 because all I wanted to do was listen to edgy music, watch blue's clues, and be a flamingo.
@@lpskitfit I remember my friend when I was like 6 introduced me to Evanescence specifically bring me to life and I was singing that song before I even understood what it was about
Same for the _"Don't cry...",_ she sounds like she's trying to tell that to herself while desperately trying to hold it together. She could be saying it to whomever listens to this song (and literally bursts into tears because it's so beautifully haunting), but she's also telling that to herself, to hold on. It really hits you hard...
Evanescence will get you through any depression. Thank you for being there for me for 8 years. When im happy and just love your music, and when I’m down
Amy's past was tragic, to say the least. The fact that she can channel that pain and loneliness in losing not 1, but 2 of her baby siblings into songs that the entire world can feel, is out-of-this-world magical.
‘Hello, I’m the lie living for you so you can hide, don’t cry’ Without a doubt the most deepest lyrics in the history of the music industry for me personally, it makes me tear up every time :(
"But the blood in the water, Is the blood of my brother, We both learned it didn't mean a thing in the end if one was thicker than the other" Cobain and Able By Amigo the devil the song hit fucking hard while being soft
Welcome brother. Good to see somebody that still can't help but come back to Amy Lee's B-Sides. I'm surprised that October and Listen to the Rain didn't immediately pop up on my sidebar the second I clicked this song again, considering how much I used to listen to these 3 songs in particular. Then again, I had the CD for the album Hello was on, so maybe I didn't search it as much.
I don't think it will fully heal but I hope you are able to live a full life for her like I'm sure she would have wanted for you. But also my condolences, I'm sorry she has departed this world, and that pain in incomparably unique. Just dont let it swallow you.
@poison Empress I totally understand how you're feeling. I lost my twin sister at birth, and I still have a very hard time. It's like to part of me is missing. there's never a day that goes by without thinking of her or the loss i feel. it's been 17 years and it's still hard. like you said it's a wound that hasn't fully healed and probably never will. But with all that said, much love to you ❤ and I'm so sorry for your loss. 💔 Once a twin, always a twin. 💕💕
When I have gone through my twin brother's escape and then gone though my own traumas, it has been helping me relate a little bit more to him... Then I connect with him and see what we can accomplish together in spirit. I realize it has all been a part of my purpose and meaning as well as others. -see Timothy James Sollami White and Steven Stayner 🙏🌍🌎🌏🙏
This is beautiful. Adele's 'Hello' is beautiful. I don't know why people feel so compelled to compare completely different songs just because they share a title.
+Noemi Cardona The song is about Amy Lee's point of view when she lost her sister at the age of 6 and her sister was 3, she found out at school but she since she was really young she didn't understand the concept of death
This song makes me think of my own personal struggle with the dissociation that comes with certain mental illness. Your brain goes through great lengths to try to protect you from the pain, for better or for worse. The fact that it still hits as hard for so many people as it did over a decade ago is telling of how great a piece of art this is.
This song, to me at least, has always represented the facade a depressed person puts on to fool the people around them. The person they were before has died and now they have to pretend to be happy, to smile and not believe. The smile is the lie they're using to hide behind, and their mind is the only person they can truly talk to. All of the repressed emotions show through at the very end of the song, showing that the anger, sadness, and pain is all that's left of who they used to be; of their yesterday. It's a feeling I'm very well acquainted with.
SailorSaturn10 That is exactly what the song is about! I too can relate. The old me is gone but everyone is still trying to fix me.....and turn me into someone Im not.
SailorSaturn10 that's so me. When I show my true face like the one when I'm depressed and not in mood everyone's like "wait what why are you sad stop it" so I'm just pretending to be someone I'm not and I even don't want to be.. It's sad but whan can person do right.
I remember showing this song to my mom. She instantly loved it while I always loved My Immortal. When she died I kept playing this song over and over. And as we knew it it was on her funeral. And it just fit: It was end of school(School bell rings) the forecast warned for rain that fell later on(Rain clouds come to play). Still, seven years later, this song pulls my heartstrings like it did then.
This really makes me think of my mom, who died this week. I keep on thinking that this is just a dream, and when I wake up, I'll see her and my dad smiling with each other, and her giving me a huge hug whenever I come home from school. But, I know I'll never see her alive again, and it feels like a sword going straight through my heart.
Meagan Hindman Heya I lsot my Motrher 10 years ago, its still really strange even now, and sometimes I think its just all a lie but its tough. Sorry for your loss.
Thanks. And, I'm starting to understand a little bit how you feel. I mean, it's almost been a week, but I still think that whenever I get up in the morning, I'll see her again.
my Mother died last year ON my birthday. Not that the date really matters. 7 months on and I am still counting the days I last hugged her. Still counting how long it has been since I heard her talk to me. 10 years after fighting a very stubborn cancer caused by the medication Fosamax, and the fight is finally over. The only consolation I have is that she's no longer in pain. I was her carer for the last three years, so...that does leave me empty. Nothing can fill that gap. Just have to accept that and move on. All I can do is hope I get to go to heaven when I die, because that's where I'll see her next.
Meaning behind the song: This is referring to her sister that died at a young age. "If I smile and don't believe. Soon I know I'll wake from this dream." She knows she's dead, but she doesn't believe it, she think's that this is a dream. At the end of the song she realizes that her sister really is dead.
"Don't try to fix me. I'm not broken." "Hello, I'm the lie living for you so you can hide." Most of the song is really just not being able to accept it. As I once heard, "The hardest part isn't that they're gone. The hardest part is having to accept that they're gone".
Jessey ellis.that's me i lost sister by cancer 8 years ago near my birthday and since then i was never the same 1 year ago i was so depress i with attempt to kil myself by drowning myself in watch cutting myself and stabbing myself .i also couldn't get a grip because then like again a year ago on my birthday my sister's(she's not really my sister but she's family,like i consider her as my sis)son died of diabete attack and like a week later my best and closest uncle died i was heartbroken i wanted to die at that point but thank god i started going to church and getting some help because i wouldn't be here today
Amy Lee’s little sister died at the age of three by an unidentified Illness when Amy was 6. bonnie was 3. Amy got a call while she was at school and heard her sister passed ex:”playground school bells ring again” and “has no one told you shes not breathing” She didn’t want to believe it “If i smile and don’t believe” she didnt want it to be true Bonnie died in the year 1987 ‘Hello’ from fallen and ‘like you’ from The open door were never preformed live. Hence no Actual music videos
Actually, you are incorrect. Amy was 5. Her birthday is on 13th of December. (Oh no, tis year, her birthday's gonna be on Friday 13th!! 0.o) Her sister, Bonnie, was going to turn 3 eight days after she passed away. And she didn't die from an unknown illness. Very few people know the real reason she died. Her family never wanted anyone to know, so I don't want to tell anyone. Amy's family just said that it was an illness.
Nobody says you’re acting like a fan and that you’re not really one it’s rather the fact that no one wants to hear someone spit out random boring facts about evanescence just as a proof you are the best. The only thing this proofs is that you have to much free time and should rather spend that time productively by learning some important things for school or maybe getting some rl friends. You are cringe
Anyone who has lost a relative and is listening to this song, I am so deeply sorry that they died. I hope it gets better, and remember their watching out over you in Heaven ^_^. And those of you who are suicidal, please don't die. I don't know you but i'm sure your a great person who can do so much for the world. God bless you all!
This reminds me of my best friend... She passed away a few months ago. We walking home from school and this black van drove up to us and stopped. Before I could blink, there was a bang and there was my friend, covered in blood, not saying anything... I still have nightmares and wake up screaming "EMILIA DONT LEAVE ME" I'm so full of emotions right now... Her parents asked me to say a speech at the funeral, but as soon as I got onto the alter, I just burst into tears and ran out of the church. R.I.P. Emilia you were my best friend
I'm so sorry, my own brother died of a gun shot right accident in front of me. One second they're there and the next they slip away and are gone forever.
That first verse hits hard, knowing she was only six when her sister passed away. My second little girl is six right now, and I know she processes everything with her heart. Such a sad song...and a heartfelt message that can relate to others who have lost someone so close to them.
Man I listened to evanescence since I was six years old and I will never stop listening to evanescence I am thirteen now and I still listen to it plus my birthday is in 5 days and I am turning fourteen and I will keep listening to evanescence forever my favorite songs from evanescence would be bring me to life sweet sacrifice my heart is broken and hello my friend's favorite is bring me to life and imaginary and my immortal and good enough I also like lithium to its a good song to
Gosh the emotion in this is just UNBELIEVABLE. I know the lyrics are about the loss of someone but honestly whenever I listen to her voice especially in this song it just feels like she's expressing the sorrow and hurt that anyone goes through. She;s like ..a human heart speaking omg its just soo powerful. LOL i said too much but realy !
***** yeah - that's right. She was six when her sister died at three years old. She was at school on the playground when she found out - hence the quote "school bells ring again". She apparently struggled with her sisters death and this was her expressing how she felt that day and overwhelming denial and emotion.
High school is going well with you and see if they can get it to you tomorrow morning and will send it was a good time to call you in a lot of fun and get me some one else is
I feel this describes the story of someone that's outcast from society. They fake smiles each day, they try to talk to people about it but they never get a different answer. They keep wanting to believe the world isn't as cruel as it is; that it's just a dream. In the end, all they really have is themselves. At least you can never leave you alone.
This song reminds me of one of my best friends who was ten when she passed away from cancer on the 18th of February earlier this year R.I.P Jaydah we miss you loads fly high beautiful
"Has no one told you she not breathing.....Hello I'm your minding giving you some on to talk to......Hello". I listened to this song when my nan died and I still listen to it everyday since... 6 years has gone so fast eh nan? R.I.P Nana !!😢😢💙💙💙
Kiyra Robinson this is me now.... except for my late fiance.... died on my birthday this year.... he was 41 years old.... I'm 31.... so.... I'm alone.... I need him to function.....
This song describes my life as an abuse victim. Living in denial, hiding it from everyone, pretending it wasn't happening. It was like I died. I lived in my imagination, my mind. That's how I survived sexual and physical abuse at 7-13 yrs old. Now slowly as I heal it's like I'm waking up, I'm finding that I didn't die, I'm still here. Slowly uncovering the real me buried under all the crap that others did to me. And you know what? I'm not broken. After everything they did to me, they couldn't break me.
You are a strong, Anna. I wish you all the best, and I hope that you live the rest of your life happily. You are not alone, I can’t imagine what you went through, but my heart and prayers are with you. I hope you are well and doing okay
I was in the same position as a DV survivor I was physically and sexually abused for 7 years from 11 to 18, and I’m finally free of that and I’m taking my life back, it’s taken time but I’m doing it, the first few months I wanted to die so bad just to escape the pain and dirty feeling but once I pushed through the first few months I became stronger but I still can’t face him, he destroyed my life
I lost my cat a few days ago... it's, really hard for me... but to me, this song is about a girl who's lost a loved one, but at first she's in denial, thinking it's just a dream everything's fine, shell wake up later, because it just doesn't feel possible. people are trying to help her by comforting her, helping her, "don't try to fix me I'm not broken"she says, because she's in denial that she's fine. "suddenly I realised I'm not sleeping" meaning she's finally crying out, realising her loved one is gone forever. Her saying hello through the entire song is her calling out to the loved one, hoping she comes back. at the end, you don't know what happens, either she keeps being depressed, or accepts the death of her loved one and moves bon
Jarred Hawthorne It doesn't REALLY matter what the song is actually about, music is about interpreting the meaning in whatever way feels comfertable to you.
The “I’m still here” is probably one of the most beautiful sounds I’ve ever heard in my life. I rewinded to exactly 3:00 over and over and over because when she sang the word ‘here’ oh my god it was THE most beautiful sound I’ve heard
In all of Evanescence's songs, I imagine their angels. Telling sad stories of what Earth is really like through music. Depression and death in a heavenly voice that somehow makes you listen and forget at the same time. Bringing tears and memories with each dramatic note.
honestly, Adeles songs are creepy if you think about it. No, not like "spooky", but legitimately creepy, like... "I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited, but i couldn't stay away i couldn't fight it. I'd hope you'd see my face and that you'd reminded that for me, it isn't over". Honestly, that's slightly stalker status, or obsessed. I do like her voice thought but a lot of her songs can get pretty creepy if you think about it.
these songs have completely different meanings and were written for different purposes. Just because they have the same tittle doesn't mean you can compare them.
I've grown up listening to evanescence, and their songs still make me emotional, and since I understand the meanings of the lyrics on a deeper level now, they make me even more emotional. I can just feel the heartache laced in the words, and it's really sad when you stop and take in what they mean. Damn is this ever good to listen to when you're sad though.. it's easy to have a well needed cry while listening to it!
I don't show emotions like sadness unless I'm being directly abused or I'm depressed I show -anger And -neutral I'm starting to show -happiness And -slightly less neutral So I'm improving, might cry to these songs soon. I wish I could, I don't particularly enjoy being mostly emotionless.
The pain is so unbearable 💔 this song is so In tune with my hurt and pain I’m not happy that I see others hurt the same as me but I find comfort knowing I’m not alone. Life is so unbearable when this dark cloud forms above me and it feels like I’m drowning underwater and keep slipping unable to reach the surface no matter how hard I try.
I lost my mother and my sister to cancer, and this song hit a million times harder when my sister died. The anger, the denial, and the pain in Amy Lee's voice and the lyrics, it all hits deeper when you know how it feels first hand. Thanks Amy Lee, you helped me without knowing it.
This has got to be one of the best songs I've heard in the past 5 years, The vocals fit perfectly, Great piano, Deeply meaning lyrics, This song is perfect. I will listen to Evanscence FOREVER!
Highest level is going to have a good time at school tomorrow and get back in touch soon to see if we can go to bed early tonight and tomorrow night and then we will get it to you tomorrow morning and will send you
This song is hauntingly beautiful. You can feel the raw emotion in the way she sings it. "Don't try to fix me I'm not broken", that line just catches you. Wow. Is all can say.
Oh, my goodness. An incredible and possible hidden meaning behind this song just hit me. I'm sure that most everyone here has heard of Multiple Personality Disorder, formally known as Dissociative Identification Disorder. For those who are uninformed, it's a mental disorder that can come along after someone is put under a great deal of stress in their life and can't deal with it. As a way to cope, the brain makes an alter personality that takes over, causing the "host" to black out from time to time and not remember what happened while the alter(s) had been in control. Though they take turns being in control, in some cases, the personalities can have some form of communication through hearing voices in their head. Though this is just a theory of mine, I believe this song is about someone who lost a dear family member and wound up gaining a second personality as a result, hence the "Hello, I'm your mind giving you someone to talk to" bit. Naturally, since they're already going through a great deal of stress, they're unable to accept the death that's happened and convince themselves it's just a bad dream. Meanwhile, they can't stand being controlled and having this second voice in their head and want to get it out, all being shown in the "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." part of the song. Eventually, in serious cases of Multiple Personality Disorder that's mixed with some bad depression, the alter(s) can take over, leaving the original "host" personality in the back of the mind, forced to sit and watch as their life slowly becomes no longer theirs. "Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping. Hello? I'm still here. All that's left of yesterday." As I've said, this is just a theory of mine, but I couldn't help but have it come to me after spending a good two years with someone who had Multiple Personality Disorder. It's a very real disorder and shouldn't be taken lightly by any means; I've seen it in action first hand. But anyway, this is why I love Evanescence. So many possible meanings in their beautiful songs.
fayleah I really doubt that there is only source for MPS. it's all about trauma, and it shouldn't matter if it's from someone's death, or if it's from being abused as a Child.
@Meggie Russell: I have D.I.D and I have listen to this song so many times that I NEVER once thought about my alters or the meaning behind it. After I read your comment through, it hit deeply because it's very true. I agree with this because they were always the voices saying "I'm here...hello" And before I fully knew what I had, I would hear them talking to me. For the longest time I thought I was crazy but now I know I'm not. So I just wanted to say something to you and say thanks for shearing that. ^_^
I think you're on the right track. I'm sure a lot of her songs are about Dissociation, but more Depersonalization or Derealization induced by trauma. "Bring me to Life", "Hello", "Lithium", all talk about the attachment to this dream-like state. Also, when asked about what "Bring me to Life" meant to her she responded, "A specific type of numbness only a few people experience." This was before much research was done on either disorder, which was common for distressed people of the disorder to describe as a numbing sensation.
"...I'm your mind, giving you someone to talk to."-Amy Lee. Deep.....like she's disconnected from her feelings and sense of hope, like she's in a hospital, or an empty room, with no feelings to feel for herself or anyone else.
I'm with you on this one... I'm 22, and still have mine. Her name is Inner, and she's been there for me since I was about six or seven years old. You are not alone.
This was the song Amy written in the memory of her sister that died coz of an unknown illness that's why the song is so touching & emotional...miss this band & Amy's voice
If anyone didn't know this song is about when she was 6 years old and her 3 year old sister died. This song shows how she dealt with the death at such a young age. She didn't really believe it happened because she didn't understand Death. She always thought she would see her baby sister again. At the end she realizes that she will never see her sister again.:(
@Sallyface Fisher What’s more sad to me, aside for the fact she lost her little sister so young, is that we’ve pretty much all been there at some point. I can remember from when I had a friend in the 4th grade and he got hit by a car, flipped up in the air, hit his head and died on impact. Well, little 9-year-old me, didn’t really know what that meant when a teacher of mine and another student, who was there with him that day he died, said he was gone. I remember asking where he went and the teacher, tears in her eyes, saying that he was in heaven. It was then, and since I was raised Catholic I knew what Heaven was, that Collin, my one true and best friend, the friend that always made sure the shy guy (me) got playtime with the other kids in wall-ball at recess, was not coming back anytime soon.
This song brought tears to my eyes.I recently lost my daughter KIMBERLY MAE BOONE.SHE WAS 5 weeks old.I have a whole in my heart that wont close.THE PAIN IS UNBEARABLE MOST DAYS!IM SO FILLED WITH HATEDRED I HAVE EVEN CURSED AT GOD! Not a day goes by I don't cry for my daughter! I WISH IT WAS ME NOT HER ! God why! Please hug your kids everyday !TELL THEM EVERY CHANCE U GET HOW MUCH U LOVE THEM!
I'm sorry for you lost I don't know your pain but my daddy has brain damage and her can't even remember me he knows my sister's and the mom but not me and my mama so I'm sorry
This song is so deep , evanescence will always hold the record for the deepest songs in a band , well linkin park as well but god how do they do it. Plus Amy’s voice makes it even better it’s so smooth and calming
Well, My immortal wasn't one of Amy's songs, it was Moody's, in an attempt to make their music a little bit more commercial, which was one of the things Amy didn't like. It is a beautiful song though. And Hello is completely Amy's, and has stated that she will never sing it live because it's too emotional for her, same as Like you from The Open door
I have depression disorder, bipolar disorder, and I am emotionally abused by my parents. This song helps me cope, even though it was written for a little girl who had her life ended much too early. I hope it helps others, too.
This song is about death coming from a child's point of view. When Amy Lee was 6 years old, her sister Bonnie, who was 3 years old, died. Amy was at school when she found out, hence the line "Playground school bell rings again, rain clouds come to play again." What she's saying in the song is what she felt when she found out, and since she was so young, she didn't fully understand the concept of death.
When I was 13 and going through my emo phase, I used to always listen to Evanescence, and Hello was one of my favourite songs. Now that I'm 19, I listen to it after having witnessed my dad die after struggling with cancer, and it hits much more differently than before.
When she holds that note in the end when she said Yesterday.. it made me think of pain and suffering, and then release... Like if ur with me!!! Comment what it reminds you of!!!
Two years and a couple of months since losing my brother to suicide. My baby brother was not supposed to go that way and this song paints my emotions. How I felt the day it happened and how it finally hit me. Such a beautiful song.
instead of like everybody else who sees a song about a girl who lost somebody I see a story.*play ground school bells rings again rain clouds come to play again has no one told you shes not breathing hello im your mind giving you someone to talk to... hello.* two girls are playing on a school playground in an unfenced off creek jumping from rock to rock 'some are slippery' it starts to thunder girl calls her sister sister looks back not looking where shes going slips cracks her head. her sister runs over to her and starts screaming wake up and starts shaking her. her mind knows she died instantly but she doesn't believe it instead keeps shaking her and screaming.*if I smile and don't believe soon i know i'll wake from this dream* she chooses not to believe and thinks shes in a dream or daze her mind cant focuse on what really happened. she wont let it. *don't try to fix me im not broken.* parents think she's depressed she's in denial she blames herself for her sister's death. *hello im the lie living for you so you can hide...... don't cry.* shes been lying. pretending shes okay shes smiling inside shes dying and shes trying not to cry. she lets herself begin to feel the pain and starts to cry. *suddenly I know im not sleeping hello im still here all that's left of yesterday.* reality slaps her in the face. she realizes everything and even though it still kills her she reaches out to her parents as her mind reaches out to her. she shows them that their little girl wh they raised who use to laugh is still here.///////////////////////so did you like it. can you see it happen can a mind be a third or second person lol. tell me what you think hopefully you guys cared to read it all if not that's okay u don't have to waste your time.
Yuximie wow that's pretty deep *I LOVED that* I love it when people share things like that with me. it fits the song too. have u ever thought of/have written stories if not try it u could be pretty good.
Yuximie lol well try less blah blah blah cuz I think blah blah isn't saying anything lol but yeah... I see what ur saying I have that problem too try writing a little play out on how u want ur story to be then go from there see if that helps ask ppl for advice things like that ask friends to read it for you and asked them what they think was it too much tooo little too boring too confusing etc.
Evenescence is underrated but she should be more known her voice truly sounds like an angel so beautiful, I'd give anything to have her talented vocalized voice xxx ❤
A brotherly warm hug to all my brothers and sisters who struggle with depression, bipolar disorders or any kind of related mental health issue, and who are listening to this song, living in the flesh the deep sadness, the pain, and the dark, subtle desperation that are embedded in each note and word. We need to stay strong. Much love, and sympathies for each one of you.
2022 Edit: Almost three years ago, I wrote this message thinking that it may share a bit of light and love to (and from) a lonely person who just felt as lost as me, and who was in pain while listening to this beautiful song, which I love and means so much to me. I mostly thought that my words would be lost, and nobody would read them, even though I meant them wholeheartedly. Never did I imagine that I was going to get 2k likes and 70 comments of so many beautiful people sharing their stories of pain, of struggle, but also of hope and strength. I wish I could reply to all of you, but I always read your comments, and they all bring tears to my eyes. Tears of empathy, and also of love, gratitude and appreciation. Mental health issues tend to feel so lonely... but we are not alone, as this beautiful song and experience after an innocent and sincere comment has shown us. We're bound together by this song, my brothers and sisters, and by our own journey trying to heal. We are not alone. We have each other. I really love you. Each and every single one of you. And from the bottom of my heart i want to say THANK YOU, THANK YOU SO MUCH. Don't give up, and know that, even when you feel the most alone, in the darkest dark, someone here in this comment section of an Evanescence song loves you and is praying for your recovery and well being. I really mean it. Dear brothers and sisters: I LOVE YOU ALL.
@Emma Aumiller Much love for you Emma! I wish you the best in your journey!
Thankyou so much i did need to hear that... i've been strugling with depression for 5 years
Thank you
@@geral096 and Nya Man. You're not alone. We're not alone. Let's keep on fighting, one day at a time. Much love for you.
Beautifully said my friend. May you all find happy days again. I'm crying as I type this
"Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping. Hello I'm still here,all that's left of yesterday" is my favorite part
And that's the part i was on when i reed ur comment.🤣
Jessica Merino same :)
Same here
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"Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken." Makes me tear up every time.
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Great words
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I crying in this moment... this song is very beautiful..
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"has no one told you she's not breathing"
"don't try to fix me I'm not broken"
makes me cry every time
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Highest level is going for a good time for you to meet with my 💓💓✋🔥✋
Highest level and see if we can get to know that I'm going to have to get a job and it was a good day and time for a
Same here friend...Its depth of emotions
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"Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken" is my favorite part
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me too
too....
100% agree. I only listen to this song for that part...and the part right after that says, "I'm the lie living for you so you can hide". I get chills running down my spine hearing those three sentences. They're VERY meaningful to me. I plan on my first tattoo saying, "Don't try to fix me. I'm not broken". That is how powerful that lyric is to me...and I don't really care much for Evanescence!!
Sometimes, as an adult, you just have to revert back to being an early 2000's emo teenager because life is hard
I grew up on this stuff and was edgy asf as a kid. I was born in 2003 so like imagine a 3 year old that ONLY will listen to Linkin Park, Evanescence, Metallica, and the bands in that genre. Imagine a three year old screaming "I'VE BECOME SO NUMB I CAN'T FEEL YOU THERE!!!" like 24/7 because all I wanted to do was listen to edgy music, watch blue's clues, and be a flamingo.
Yes.. a thousand times yes!!
@@lpskitfit I remember my friend when I was like 6 introduced me to Evanescence specifically bring me to life and I was singing that song before I even understood what it was about
I can relate...
Fucking exactly! Someone gets it
The “I’m” in “I’m not broken” really sounds like she’s gonna lose her shit.
It’s wavering like she can barely keep it together. Gets me every time.
she dedicated this song to her sister whom she lost n she actually cried while singing the song .. read it in her interview,
@@tawanahickey9234 shut the fuck up
What are you saying
@@tawanahickey9234 She told to stfu
Same for the _"Don't cry...",_ she sounds like she's trying to tell that to herself while desperately trying to hold it together. She could be saying it to whomever listens to this song (and literally bursts into tears because it's so beautifully haunting), but she's also telling that to herself, to hold on. It really hits you hard...
Evanescence will get you through any depression. Thank you for being there for me for 8 years. When im happy and just love your music, and when I’m down
So true...
linkin park
@@mohsinpervez Linkin Park first for me and then Evanescence. Chester was a god, but amy is amazing too, both are better than words can describe
Amy's past was tragic, to say the least. The fact that she can channel that pain and loneliness in losing not 1, but 2 of her baby siblings into songs that the entire world can feel, is out-of-this-world magical.
Okay with me coming in to work today and will be
Never have I heard an artist convey so much pain and emotion as I have heard Amy sing this song. Truly heart wrenchingly beautiful😭
2020 anyone? this one still hits hard
Yee
Really hard.
Yes agreed so many emotions
Your so pretty Annika
I keep hearing Wicked Game at the very beginning. I started listening to Amy Lee on Spotify.
‘Hello, I’m the lie living for you so you can hide, don’t cry’
Without a doubt the most deepest lyrics in the history of the music industry for me personally, it makes me tear up every time :(
"But the blood in the water,
Is the blood of my brother,
We both learned it didn't mean a thing in the end if one was thicker than the other"
Cobain and Able
By Amigo the devil the song hit fucking hard while being soft
Welcome brother. Good to see somebody that still can't help but come back to Amy Lee's B-Sides. I'm surprised that October and Listen to the Rain didn't immediately pop up on my sidebar the second I clicked this song again, considering how much I used to listen to these 3 songs in particular. Then again, I had the CD for the album Hello was on, so maybe I didn't search it as much.
As someone who lost their twin sister at a young age this song and like you never fail to tear open a wound that never fully healed.
I don't think it will fully heal but I hope you are able to live a full life for her like I'm sure she would have wanted for you. But also my condolences, I'm sorry she has departed this world, and that pain in incomparably unique. Just dont let it swallow you.
@poison Empress I totally understand how you're feeling. I lost my twin sister at birth, and I still have a very hard time. It's like to part of me is missing. there's never a day that goes by without thinking of her or the loss i feel. it's been 17 years and it's still hard. like you said it's a wound that hasn't fully healed and probably never will. But with all that said, much love to you ❤ and I'm so sorry for your loss. 💔 Once a twin, always a twin. 💕💕
When I have gone through my twin brother's escape and then gone though my own traumas, it has been helping me relate a little bit more to him... Then I connect with him and see what we can accomplish together in spirit. I realize it has all been a part of my purpose and meaning as well as others. -see Timothy James Sollami White and Steven Stayner 🙏🌍🌎🌏🙏
and never will
I lost my twin in the womb.
"I'm the lie living for you so you can hide"...that's so deep
always brings me right back to a most humble existence.
Armys!! ❤❤
Army's everywhere
Candy pastel Kpop is everywhere and I love it 🙌🏻❤️😈
yep..... armys got good taste in music 🎶 😘
This is beautiful. Adele's 'Hello' is beautiful. I don't know why people feel so compelled to compare completely different songs just because they share a title.
you are right
agreed
+AlliexDance true i hate when people do that
+AlliexDance I totes agree adele at least still had a meaning to her song too
+Noemi Cardona The song is about Amy Lee's point of view when she lost her sister at the age of 6 and her sister was 3, she found out at school but she since she was really young she didn't understand the concept of death
This song makes me think of my own personal struggle with the dissociation that comes with certain mental illness. Your brain goes through great lengths to try to protect you from the pain, for better or for worse. The fact that it still hits as hard for so many people as it did over a decade ago is telling of how great a piece of art this is.
Wow 🤔
Oj simpson and it is a good idea to have ú
Hi
Yah. It's always made me think of D.I.D.
Hi
Amy is singing from her heart & you can feel her pain in her VOICE!!
This song, to me at least, has always represented the facade a depressed person puts on to fool the people around them. The person they were before has died and now they have to pretend to be happy, to smile and not believe. The smile is the lie they're using to hide behind, and their mind is the only person they can truly talk to. All of the repressed emotions show through at the very end of the song, showing that the anger, sadness, and pain is all that's left of who they used to be; of their yesterday. It's a feeling I'm very well acquainted with.
SailorSaturn10 i agree
SailorSaturn10 That is exactly what the song is about! I too can relate. The old me is gone but everyone is still trying to fix me.....and turn me into someone Im not.
It does seem like a depressed persons point of view,
It definitely resonates with me.
SailorSaturn10 that's so me. When I show my true face like the one when I'm depressed and not in mood everyone's like "wait what why are you sad stop it" so I'm just pretending to be someone I'm not and I even don't want to be.. It's sad but whan can person do right.
the best voice in the world...
Adithya S so true
have you heard my immortal?
Adithya S I agree
Omg yes let’s worship her!
Joker Heath ledger let's make a religion lol
This Evanescence song is sadder than My Immortal
Yeah but for some reason my immortal always makes me 😢 and gives me goosebumps
I remember showing this song to my mom. She instantly loved it while I always loved My Immortal. When she died I kept playing this song over and over. And as we knew it it was on her funeral. And it just fit: It was end of school(School bell rings) the forecast warned for rain that fell later on(Rain clouds come to play). Still, seven years later, this song pulls my heartstrings like it did then.
Jakomi of the Rose I just bawled my eyes out to your post. I get it.
I am sorry for your loss
That is so sad Jakomi of the Rose! 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Hey man, stay strong. If you need to talk, I know I'm a stranger, but I'm here for you.
Jakomi of the Rose. i feel so bad for you and your mom😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞
This really makes me think of my mom, who died this week. I keep on thinking that this is just a dream, and when I wake up, I'll see her and my dad smiling with each other, and her giving me a huge hug whenever I come home from school. But, I know I'll never see her alive again, and it feels like a sword going straight through my heart.
I 'm sorry for your loss.
Thanks :)
Meagan Hindman
Heya I lsot my Motrher 10 years ago, its still really strange even now, and sometimes I think its just all a lie but its tough. Sorry for your loss.
Thanks. And, I'm starting to understand a little bit how you feel. I mean, it's almost been a week, but I still think that whenever I get up in the morning, I'll see her again.
my Mother died last year ON my birthday.
Not that the date really matters.
7 months on and I am still counting the days I last hugged her.
Still counting how long it has been since I heard her talk to me.
10 years after fighting a very stubborn cancer caused by the medication Fosamax, and the fight is finally over.
The only consolation I have is that she's no longer in pain.
I was her carer for the last three years, so...that does leave me empty.
Nothing can fill that gap.
Just have to accept that and move on.
All I can do is hope I get to go to heaven when I die, because that's where I'll see her next.
Meaning behind the song:
This is referring to her sister that died at a young age. "If I smile and don't believe. Soon I know I'll wake from this dream." She knows she's dead, but she doesn't believe it, she think's that this is a dream. At the end of the song she realizes that her sister really is dead.
that make me love this song even more..
her sister died when Amy Lee was 6. Her teacher told her because she was in class atm
"Don't try to fix me. I'm not broken."
"Hello, I'm the lie living for you so you can hide."
Most of the song is really just not being able to accept it. As I once heard, "The hardest part isn't that they're gone. The hardest part is having to accept that they're gone".
that is like the song "Like You" that they made, also about how her sister is dead. it even says "like you, sis" so it's kinda obvious
Jessey ellis.that's me i lost sister by cancer 8 years ago near my birthday and since then i was never the same 1 year ago i was so depress i with attempt to kil myself by drowning myself in watch cutting myself and stabbing myself .i also couldn't get a grip because then like again a year ago on my birthday my sister's(she's not really my sister but she's family,like i consider her as my sis)son died of diabete attack and like a week later my best and closest uncle died i was heartbroken i wanted to die at that point but thank god i started going to church and getting some help because i wouldn't be here today
Does anyone still listening to this in 2024 ? Love this song ❤
Yes me ❤
❤❤❤❤❤
Meeeeee
Yes. Now. ❤
I'm paying attention much more, remember me when I leave with my friends, skateboard and much Rock roll
Amy Lee’s little sister died at the age of three by an unidentified Illness when Amy was 6. bonnie was 3. Amy got a call while she was at school and heard her sister passed ex:”playground school bells ring again” and “has no one told you shes not breathing”
She didn’t want to believe it “If i smile and don’t believe” she didnt want it to be true
Bonnie died in the year 1987
‘Hello’ from fallen and ‘like you’ from The open door were never preformed live. Hence no Actual music videos
Actually, you are incorrect. Amy was 5. Her birthday is on 13th of December. (Oh no, tis year, her birthday's gonna be on Friday 13th!! 0.o) Her sister, Bonnie, was going to turn 3 eight days after she passed away. And she didn't die from an unknown illness. Very few people know the real reason she died. Her family never wanted anyone to know, so I don't want to tell anyone. Amy's family just said that it was an illness.
XPGaming Girl Stop acting like an all knowing super fan , cringe 😂
Dont act so creepy and mysterious, being a “super fan” is nothing to be proud of. Bonnie drowned in a bathtub because her mum didn’t watch her
I’m not saying it’s bad to be a fan you are just over the top and very cringey.
Nobody says you’re acting like a fan and that you’re not really one it’s rather the fact that no one wants to hear someone spit out random boring facts about evanescence just as a proof you are the best. The only thing this proofs is that you have to much free time and should rather spend that time productively by learning some important things for school or maybe getting some rl friends. You are cringe
Anyone who has lost a relative and is listening to this song, I am so deeply sorry that they died. I hope it gets better, and remember their watching out over you in Heaven ^_^. And those of you who are suicidal, please don't die. I don't know you but i'm sure your a great person who can do so much for the world. God bless you all!
Oldsonglover4Eva thanks believe me when my crush died I wanted to end my life but I never attempted because I went to church
Not me just amber died on house md so now I’m sad 10 years later
Oldsonglover4Eva I loved what u said it just saved me
This reminds me of my best friend... She passed away a few months ago. We walking home from school and this black van drove up to us and stopped. Before I could blink, there was a bang and there was my friend, covered in blood, not saying anything... I still have nightmares and wake up screaming "EMILIA DONT LEAVE ME" I'm so full of emotions right now... Her parents asked me to say a speech at the funeral, but as soon as I got onto the alter, I just burst into tears and ran out of the church. R.I.P. Emilia you were my best friend
That sounds fucken crazy
Ikr
Wow that is the most depressing thing I've read all day...
I'm so sorry for your loss may she R.I.P i will keep you and your family in my thoughts
I'm so sorry, my own brother died of a gun shot right accident in front of me. One second they're there and the next they slip away and are gone forever.
That first verse hits hard, knowing she was only six when her sister passed away. My second little girl is six right now, and I know she processes everything with her heart. Such a sad song...and a heartfelt message that can relate to others who have lost someone so close to them.
"Hello I'm the lie living for u so u can hide, dont cry"This is one of the saddest songs that I have ever heard, I love this song though
angel Lee heart "EMOTIONS" I''ll Say no more.
man ! after 8 years i still can't get enough of evanecence... 🌒🌑🌘
me neither daddy'o
Same.
Same...
😍😍😍😍😢😢
Man I listened to evanescence since I was six years old and I will never stop listening to evanescence I am thirteen now and I still listen to it plus my birthday is in 5 days and I am turning fourteen and I will keep listening to evanescence forever my favorite songs from evanescence would be bring me to life sweet sacrifice my heart is broken and hello my friend's favorite is bring me to life and imaginary and my immortal and good enough I also like lithium to its a good song to
Gosh the emotion in this is just UNBELIEVABLE. I know the lyrics are about the loss of someone but honestly whenever I listen to her voice especially in this song it just feels like she's expressing the sorrow and hurt that anyone goes through. She;s like ..a human heart speaking omg its just soo powerful. LOL i said too much but realy !
***** ikr!
*****
It was her little sister..
***** yeah - that's right. She was six when her sister died at three years old. She was at school on the playground when she found out - hence the quote "school bells ring again". She apparently struggled with her sisters death and this was her expressing how she felt that day and overwhelming denial and emotion.
oh it hits me in a very vulnerable soft spot
Oj simpson to be done with me and my friend ❤️☺️☺️ you can
hi ana same
High school is going well with you and see if they can get it to you tomorrow morning and will send it was a good time to call you in a lot of fun and get me some one else is
Highest
High school and college
I feel this describes the story of someone that's outcast from society. They fake smiles each day, they try to talk to people about it but they never get a different answer. They keep wanting to believe the world isn't as cruel as it is; that it's just a dream. In the end, all they really have is themselves. At least you can never leave you alone.
As an outcast from society, I can tell you this is 100% true
I'm one as well. :/
Me three. Amen
Actually, she wrote this about her baby sister who died when she was only 6 years old. I do understand what you are saying though.
Yeah, I knew that but this is another way to think about it
This song reminds me of one of my best friends who was ten when she passed away from cancer on the 18th of February earlier this year R.I.P Jaydah we miss you loads fly high beautiful
Holly Likes Bands stay strong hunni
:(
Holly Likes Bands ur so fukin young looking too , im sorry to hear that .. the pain of loss is a burden
stay strong babe 😘
+Holly Likes Bands MY NAME LOL
"Has no one told you she not breathing.....Hello I'm your minding giving you some on to talk to......Hello". I listened to this song when my nan died and I still listen to it everyday since... 6 years has gone so fast eh nan? R.I.P Nana !!😢😢💙💙💙
Wow. Same for me. And i was too little to understand she was gone.
Kiyra Robinson same only it been a year almost 2 since my Nana's death
It's been 13 years for me 😢
Kiyra Robinson this is me now.... except for my late fiance.... died on my birthday this year.... he was 41 years old.... I'm 31.... so.... I'm alone.... I need him to function.....
A message to the future generations..Don't let this masterpiece song die..🙏🙏❤️
this song seems to deal with a range of personal loss. I agree, it should not be forgotten
future generation are leading and taking the world to total destruction
don't let this voice that has never been seen before die.....
That high note at 2:58 is just divine.
one of the main reasons i love this song for!!!
The song is wonderfull
I can hit that note, of course I don't sound nearly as beautiful as Amy does, but I agree it's just gorgeous.
I know right? ❤❤❤
+Meow! At The Disco are you male or female?
This song describes my life as an abuse victim. Living in denial, hiding it from everyone, pretending it wasn't happening. It was like I died. I lived in my imagination, my mind. That's how I survived sexual and physical abuse at 7-13 yrs old. Now slowly as I heal it's like I'm waking up, I'm finding that I didn't die, I'm still here. Slowly uncovering the real me buried under all the crap that others did to me. And you know what? I'm not broken. After everything they did to me, they couldn't break me.
You are a strong, Anna. I wish you all the best, and I hope that you live the rest of your life happily. You are not alone, I can’t imagine what you went through, but my heart and prayers are with you. I hope you are well and doing okay
🙂🙂
Lovely such strength and brilliance. Thank you 🙏🌏🌎🌍🙏
I was in the same position as a DV survivor I was physically and sexually abused for 7 years from 11 to 18, and I’m finally free of that and I’m taking my life back, it’s taken time but I’m doing it, the first few months I wanted to die so bad just to escape the pain and dirty feeling but once I pushed through the first few months I became stronger but I still can’t face him, he destroyed my life
I just want to say, you are so strong and you WILL defeat your demons
I lost my cat a few days ago... it's, really hard for me... but to me, this song is about a girl who's lost a loved one, but at first she's in denial, thinking it's just a dream everything's fine, shell wake up later, because it just doesn't feel possible. people are trying to help her by comforting her, helping her, "don't try to fix me I'm not broken"she says, because she's in denial that she's fine. "suddenly I realised I'm not sleeping" meaning she's finally crying out, realising her loved one is gone forever. Her saying hello through the entire song is her calling out to the loved one, hoping she comes back. at the end, you don't know what happens, either she keeps being depressed, or accepts the death of her loved one and moves bon
To me, this song is about Amy's sister that passed away. Cause ya know. That's what the song is really about.
Jarred Hawthorne It doesn't REALLY matter what the song is actually about, music is about interpreting the meaning in whatever way feels comfertable to you.
True.
Kimmy Cub im so sorry about your cat :(
Es W Thank you, i appriciate that
The “I’m still here” is probably one of the most beautiful sounds I’ve ever heard in my life. I rewinded to exactly 3:00 over and over and over because when she sang the word ‘here’ oh my god it was THE most beautiful sound I’ve heard
Every last verse describes my life. Every which way and it never stops. 😞
For me too i feel the same thing ❤️
Wow...love the 3:00. Thank you!
In all of Evanescence's songs, I imagine their angels. Telling sad stories of what Earth is really like through music. Depression and death in a heavenly voice that somehow makes you listen and forget at the same time. Bringing tears and memories with each dramatic note.
+Jamayka Cruson That is a beautiful comment. And this is a beautiful song. It's one of my favorites from Amy Lee. She's has a such a beautiful voice.
I want Evanescence to come back!!!!! Amy Lee's angelic voice is missing!
Try Within Temptation
Me too
agreed 100% tired of the same auto tuned junk
they are back
roshabubblexo WAIT COME BACK IS SHE DEAD WHHHHHHYYYY
Adele's Hello: A former lover. Amy's Hello: A deceased little sister.
Sorry, Adele, Amy's got you beat by a freaking landslide.
I know right. Her songs are so deep, it touches anyone.
True Laura but Jakomi is right
honestly, Adeles songs are creepy if you think about it. No, not like "spooky", but legitimately creepy, like... "I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited, but i couldn't stay away i couldn't fight it. I'd hope you'd see my face and that you'd reminded that for me, it isn't over". Honestly, that's slightly stalker status, or obsessed. I do like her voice thought but a lot of her songs can get pretty creepy if you think about it.
these songs have completely different meanings and were written for different purposes. Just because they have the same tittle doesn't mean you can compare them.
+bri hemmings Ehh in my opinion, Amy is a way better singer. Evanescence is an angel heck, Adele for me sounds okay ...
That's just my opinion.
The high note Amy hits on "Yesterday" is just breathtaking.
Amy: Says "Don't cry"
Me: Immediately starts crying...
Acerbic Inq same though
Its Sad AF
Acerbic Inq me too
the same here
Poor Amy lee, she lost her baby soster Bonnie and her baby brother recently... I love you so much and your songs mean so much to me an relate to me
Oj simpson to be done with a lot to
@@tawanahickey9234 why is that?
High school is going for a good time for you and your family are in a good
Bruh your not making any sense what does that have to do with the song?
I've grown up listening to evanescence, and their songs still make me emotional, and since I understand the meanings of the lyrics on a deeper level now, they make me even more emotional. I can just feel the heartache laced in the words, and it's really sad when you stop and take in what they mean.
Damn is this ever good to listen to when you're sad though.. it's easy to have a well needed cry while listening to it!
Same here
I don't show emotions like sadness unless I'm being directly abused or I'm depressed
I show
-anger
And
-neutral
I'm starting to show
-happiness
And
-slightly less neutral
So I'm improving, might cry to these songs soon. I wish I could, I don't particularly enjoy being mostly emotionless.
I am a 25 year old man, thanks to amy lee who makes me cry like a little girl
🙌🙌
Okay thanks ☺️☺️☺️ you can
It’s ok to cry! No matter your age or gender. :)
Salute
High school and college and we are going for a lot of time to get a new car and it was 💯🔥💯💯💯💓💯
''don't cry''
*crying to the extremes*
don't cry... craft!
Damn, someone already made the craft reference.
TheOriginalsQuotes ikr?!?!
*cries to the gods and back*
obsessed with this song, absolutely beautiful vocals and the lyrics are so deep..
The pain is so unbearable 💔 this song is so In tune with my hurt and pain I’m not happy that I see others hurt the same as me but I find comfort knowing I’m not alone. Life is so unbearable when this dark cloud forms above me and it feels like I’m drowning underwater and keep slipping unable to reach the surface no matter how hard I try.
You're not alone, right there with you. Somehow we will find a way.
Just wanted you to know, God loves you
I’m right there with you, but we will make it out of this❤️
Don't give up i bet your a wonderful person
Oi have you been able to come to my house today and will get back in a good idea for us to get together with you can you come to your house 😀👋
I lost my mother and my sister to cancer, and this song hit a million times harder when my sister died. The anger, the denial, and the pain in Amy Lee's voice and the lyrics, it all hits deeper when you know how it feels first hand.
Thanks Amy Lee, you helped me without knowing it.
This has got to be one of the best songs I've heard in the past 5 years, The vocals fit perfectly, Great piano, Deeply meaning lyrics, This song is perfect. I will listen to Evanscence FOREVER!
2:46.. this is just pure art, I could fall in tears just by listening to this
"suddenly i know i'm not sleeping" wow.
jhjhcbg I cry every time I listen to this song by yet I come back and listen to all her songs💜💔
This is my favourite part of the song . She has the best voice I have ever heard
@@jinks_raccon8196 same
Okay I'll be back in a few days and it
Highest level is going to have a good time at school tomorrow and get back in touch soon to see if we can go to bed early tonight and tomorrow night and then we will get it to you tomorrow morning and will send you
This song is hauntingly beautiful. You can feel the raw emotion in the way she sings it. "Don't try to fix me I'm not broken", that line just catches you. Wow. Is all can say.
Amy Lee always knows exactly how i feel...she has songs for every one of my moods.
love your profile pic. and I agree with your comment as well
Thanks~. And Amy Lee is perfect.
Amy lee can walk out in the middle of the woods, sing, and then all of the creatures would come to her.
Lol like an emo disney princess! She is very talented
She could make trees cry!
It’s evanescence 🏃🏻♂️
@@غْريب-ط1س its amy.... amy IS evanescence
Jasmijn ariel so the name evanescence is like a band ?
Oh, my goodness. An incredible and possible hidden meaning behind this song just hit me.
I'm sure that most everyone here has heard of Multiple Personality Disorder, formally known as Dissociative Identification Disorder. For those who are uninformed, it's a mental disorder that can come along after someone is put under a great deal of stress in their life and can't deal with it. As a way to cope, the brain makes an alter personality that takes over, causing the "host" to black out from time to time and not remember what happened while the alter(s) had been in control. Though they take turns being in control, in some cases, the personalities can have some form of communication through hearing voices in their head.
Though this is just a theory of mine, I believe this song is about someone who lost a dear family member and wound up gaining a second personality as a result, hence the "Hello, I'm your mind giving you someone to talk to" bit.
Naturally, since they're already going through a great deal of stress, they're unable to accept the death that's happened and convince themselves it's just a bad dream. Meanwhile, they can't stand being controlled and having this second voice in their head and want to get it out, all being shown in the "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." part of the song.
Eventually, in serious cases of Multiple Personality Disorder that's mixed with some bad depression, the alter(s) can take over, leaving the original "host" personality in the back of the mind, forced to sit and watch as their life slowly becomes no longer theirs. "Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping. Hello? I'm still here. All that's left of yesterday."
As I've said, this is just a theory of mine, but I couldn't help but have it come to me after spending a good two years with someone who had Multiple Personality Disorder. It's a very real disorder and shouldn't be taken lightly by any means; I've seen it in action first hand. But anyway, this is why I love Evanescence. So many possible meanings in their beautiful songs.
That's really an interesting theory, and it makes a lot of sense. Either way, this song's beautiful. :)
fayleah I really doubt that there is only source for MPS. it's all about trauma, and it shouldn't matter if it's from someone's death, or if it's from being abused as a Child.
I know it has something to do with her three year old sister who died when she was six?
@Meggie Russell: I have D.I.D and I have listen to this song so many times that I NEVER once thought about my alters or the meaning behind it. After I read your comment through, it hit deeply because it's very true. I agree with this because they were always the voices saying "I'm here...hello" And before I fully knew what I had, I would hear them talking to me. For the longest time I thought I was crazy but now I know I'm not. So I just wanted to say something to you and say thanks for shearing that. ^_^
I think you're on the right track. I'm sure a lot of her songs are about Dissociation, but more Depersonalization or Derealization induced by trauma. "Bring me to Life", "Hello", "Lithium", all talk about the attachment to this dream-like state. Also, when asked about what "Bring me to Life" meant to her she responded, "A specific type of numbness only a few people experience." This was before much research was done on either disorder, which was common for distressed people of the disorder to describe as a numbing sensation.
What strikes me is that this song is so beautifully written that every person has a different favourite part and yet appreciates this song as a whole.
"...I'm your mind, giving you someone to talk to."-Amy Lee. Deep.....like she's disconnected from her feelings and sense of hope, like she's in a hospital, or an empty room, with no feelings to feel for herself or anyone else.
tries high note = coughing fit
or this weird screeching noise that sound like a dying chipmunk
I almost got it but then my voice cracked horribly.
the high notes are the only part i can sing ... hence my already high pitch voice
I'm a 15 year old boy and I can hit these notes spot on....... is that good?
Connor Hartley A+, you go, join choir, do something with that, that's skill
My dad's disease. I miss you.
With Amy I always find myself in her lyrics. Evanescence was and will always be my favorite band.
I'm so sorry for your loss 💔
17 years old.
I still have my imaginary friend to help with my repressed trauma and abuse.
This song helps me escape
Thank you.
I hate that others know the feeling
I'm with you on this one... I'm 22, and still have mine. Her name is Inner, and she's been there for me since I was about six or seven years old. You are not alone.
Same. Except I have more now.
I'm 18 now. I never quite had that but I thought I did. Turns out I have a dissociative disorder and he's technically real..
It's not her voice that captivates me, it's the fact she can make you feel pain you never thought existed..
that's defintly one of my favourite songs.. emotionally powerful
the words are perfectly place to where you cant only hear it with your own ears but yet every little bit that makes you...you
Agreed, one of my fave songs too
The best hello song out there
This was the song Amy written in the memory of her sister that died coz of an unknown illness that's why the song is so touching & emotional...miss this band & Amy's voice
Everyone's all raving about how sad Adelle's song ''hello' is and I'm over here like;
adelle's song hello can't be compared with this one
THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I TOTALLY AGREE
i hate adeles hello
me too it sucks
ikr
If anyone didn't know this song is about when she was 6 years old and her 3 year old sister died. This song shows how she dealt with the death at such a young age. She didn't really believe it happened because she didn't understand Death. She always thought she would see her baby sister again. At the end she realizes that she will never see her sister again.:(
@Sallyface Fisher What’s more sad to me, aside for the fact she lost her little sister so young, is that we’ve pretty much all been there at some point. I can remember from when I had a friend in the 4th grade and he got hit by a car, flipped up in the air, hit his head and died on impact. Well, little 9-year-old me, didn’t really know what that meant when a teacher of mine and another student, who was there with him that day he died, said he was gone. I remember asking where he went and the teacher, tears in her eyes, saying that he was in heaven. It was then, and since I was raised Catholic I knew what Heaven was, that Collin, my one true and best friend, the friend that always made sure the shy guy (me) got playtime with the other kids in wall-ball at recess, was not coming back anytime soon.
This song brought tears to my eyes.I recently lost my daughter KIMBERLY MAE BOONE.SHE WAS 5 weeks old.I have a whole in my heart that wont close.THE PAIN IS UNBEARABLE MOST DAYS!IM SO FILLED WITH HATEDRED I HAVE EVEN CURSED AT GOD! Not a day goes by I don't cry for my daughter! I WISH IT WAS ME NOT HER ! God why! Please hug your kids everyday !TELL THEM EVERY CHANCE U GET HOW MUCH U LOVE THEM!
I understand I recently lost my sister she was born and then she was gone
I'm so sorry for your loss
I'm sorry for you lost I don't know your pain but my daddy has brain damage and her can't even remember me he knows my sister's and the mom but not me and my mama so I'm sorry
God bless you xxx
Mom to mom, I send you hugs and love. I am so so sorry sweetie.
If angels don't sound like Amy Lee I will be severely disappointed
High school is going to make me happy to hear that is not a lot of fun and get me and my friend are doing well ❤️❤️💙❤️❤️❣️💙💙
@@tawanahickey9234 ?
Omg...the part where she realizes she's not sleeping...powerful!
This song is extremely sad, I feel every part of my body burning with every note she sings, and I can't keep myself from crying.
Crying to this in 2018.. good start to a new year of crippling depression
yes!!!
You are Not alone. I feel the same!
Yup.
So true 💔
I hAvE CrIpPlInG dEpResSiOn
"January 8th, 2020"
The day I discovered a masterpiece.💜🥀
I'm sorry it took you so long to discover it.
June 2006
Better late than never!
Welcome to the club
January 8th 2020 ...... Man I miss those days
Evanescence have a way of making you think about life in a certain way, they help you to see things you couldn't before, ad I love them so much!
WHY IS THIS SO MAJEST, BEAUTIFUL, DEPRESSING, AND HEARTWRENCHING, AND WHY CAN I NOT STOP LISTENING TO IT?
This song is so deep , evanescence will always hold the record for the deepest songs in a band , well linkin park as well but god how do they do it. Plus Amy’s voice makes it even better it’s so smooth and calming
A lot of the hard rock and metal bands do sing about dark stuff, but they choose where and when and how.
Weird take imo. Love both of those bands but I would not call the lyrics deep.
@@frightenedsoul yea don’t mind my old emo self from back in the day I was a bit cringey lmao
@@lostvayne218 lmao! weren’t we all? I was super cringe haha
@@frightenedsoul "im the lie living for you so you can hide" c'mon bro how's that not deep 😅
Me: *cries whilst listening to this song*
Amy: Don't cry...
@Rohana Alliah Daz same
And reading this made me smile
Okay thanks ☺️☺️😀☺️☺️
literally that line is a big hit right in the face, as if she is talking with you and you start to cry and she just says that, I feel that close
Highest level is going for a lot of things to anything tonight but I'm sure you and your
"Don't try to fix me I'm not broken"
I feel like me and every teen thinks these words.
TheCreepyGirl yep
My chemical Nirvana at the disco crybaby your nickname is just everything 😭😍😍
TheCreepyGirl that moment when the emo side kicks in
maxguerra100 true lol
Not just teens.
this was for her sister who passed away :(
Really?
Yes
I personally like this song a lot more than My Immortal -- not saying that My Immortal is a bad song, but it gets SO MUCH more hype than Hello
no Wonder it was never played Live by Evanescence and was never a single like My Immortal. But its really great....
Well, My immortal wasn't one of Amy's songs, it was Moody's, in an attempt to make their music a little bit more commercial, which was one of the things Amy didn't like. It is a beautiful song though. And Hello is completely Amy's, and has stated that she will never sing it live because it's too emotional for her, same as Like you from The Open door
One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard ! She gives me goose bumps and tears in my eyes. Very beautiful piano score.
"hello I'm the lie living so you can hide don't cry" and "hello I'm your mind giving you someone you can talk to"
relate so much to that
don't try to fix me I'm not broken slays me everytime
+hearts up〈3 when she says "dont cry" i start bursting into tears.
same this entire song makes me cry
same
Same here this is basically how I feel all the time when everyone is trying to fix me
hearts up〈3 yassssss
I have depression disorder, bipolar disorder, and I am emotionally abused by my parents. This song helps me cope, even though it was written for a little girl who had her life ended much too early. I hope it helps others, too.
That's so sad... I hope everything change to you... I deserve to be happy.
***** Thank you...
This song is still the most powerful song I've ever heard, and it was on my first CD.
Oh nice
saaaame
This song is about death coming from a child's point of view. When Amy Lee was 6 years old, her sister Bonnie, who was 3 years old, died. Amy was at school when she found out, hence the line "Playground school bell rings again, rain clouds come to play again." What she's saying in the song is what she felt when she found out, and since she was so young, she didn't fully understand the concept of death.
Jonathan Berman yeah my sister died when I was 7 so I reacted exactly the same. that's why I can relate so well to this song.
no comment im sorry to hear that
Jonathan Berman
😢 that's so sad...l believe it...but how did u learn thats what this song is about?
I've never heard a song accurately depict grief the way this does. It hits hard
Whenever I hear Evanescence nowadays, all I can think about are all the "sad" Sims 2 music videos out there...
same 😂😂😂
Same xD
Actually all their songs remind me of Sims 2 videos 😂😂👌
+Danyale Dancy LEGIT AF
+Danyale Dancy Finally someone said it :P
When I was 13 and going through my emo phase, I used to always listen to Evanescence, and Hello was one of my favourite songs. Now that I'm 19, I listen to it after having witnessed my dad die after struggling with cancer, and it hits much more differently than before.
When she holds that note in the end when she said Yesterday.. it made me think of pain and suffering, and then release... Like if ur with me!!! Comment what it reminds you of!!!
Just when I was about to cry she sang "Don't Cry"...
And hearing the "Don't cry" just makes it all the more likely.
that's so fucking tru
And I disobeyed 😅
Same
MOOD
Two years and a couple of months since losing my brother to suicide. My baby brother was not supposed to go that way and this song paints my emotions. How I felt the day it happened and how it finally hit me. Such a beautiful song.
When my Mom died this song was everything for me:(
I love the high note at the last 'hello' it sends shivers down my spine, Amy's voice is so angelic.
Here again after a while, yep the whole song does!!
I agree!! too hard to do the same
instead of like everybody else who sees a song about a girl who lost somebody I see a story.*play ground school bells rings again rain clouds come to play again has no one told you shes not breathing hello im your mind giving you someone to talk to... hello.* two girls are playing on a school playground in an unfenced off creek jumping from rock to rock 'some are slippery' it starts to thunder girl calls her sister sister looks back not looking where shes going slips cracks her head. her sister runs over to her and starts screaming wake up and starts shaking her. her mind knows she died instantly but she doesn't believe it instead keeps shaking her and screaming.*if I smile and don't believe soon i know i'll wake from this dream* she chooses not to believe and thinks shes in a dream or daze her mind cant focuse on what really happened. she wont let it. *don't try to fix me im not broken.* parents think she's depressed she's in denial she blames herself for her sister's death. *hello im the lie living for you so you can hide...... don't cry.* shes been lying. pretending shes okay shes smiling inside shes dying and shes trying not to cry. she lets herself begin to feel the pain and starts to cry. *suddenly I know im not sleeping hello im still here all that's left of yesterday.* reality slaps her in the face. she realizes everything and even though it still kills her she reaches out to her parents as her mind reaches out to her. she shows them that their little girl wh they raised who use to laugh is still here.///////////////////////so did you like it. can you see it happen can a mind be a third or second person lol. tell me what you think hopefully you guys cared to read it all if not that's okay u don't have to waste your time.
+Sierra Propps wow, that actually follows the song plot perfectly. nice job! :)
Zach Bartu thank you glad u liked it
Yuximie wow that's pretty deep *I LOVED that* I love it when people share things like that with me. it fits the song too. have u ever thought of/have written stories if not try it u could be pretty good.
Yuximie lol well try less blah blah blah cuz I think blah blah isn't saying anything lol but yeah... I see what ur saying I have that problem too try writing a little play out on how u want ur story to be then go from there see if that helps ask ppl for advice things like that ask friends to read it for you and asked them what they think was it too much tooo little too boring too confusing etc.
Yuximie go for it
Evenescence is underrated but she should be more known her voice truly sounds like an angel so beautiful, I'd give anything to have her talented vocalized voice xxx ❤
Slyther claw her name is Amy Lee
One of my most favorite songs ever.. I've always got a Silent Hill vibes from this song, anyone else too?
Listen to stereoryze epilogue goodbye if you like silent hill vibes :)
If you've lost someone really close to ur heart you'll know how delicate this song id