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I've been looking in the mirror for so long,
That I've come to believe my soul's on the other side.
All the little pieces falling, shatter.
Shards of me,
Too sharp to put back together.
Too small to matter,
But big enough to cut me into so many little pieces.
If I try to touch her,
And I bleed,
I bleed,
And I breathe,
I breathe no more.
Take a breath and I try to draw from my spirits well.
Yet again you refuse to drink like a stubborn child.
Lie to me,
Convince me that I've been sick forever.
And all of this,
Will make sense when I get better.
but I know the difference,
Between myself and my reflection.
I just can't help but to wonder,
Which of us do you love.
So I bleed,
I bleed,
And I breathe,
I breathe no
Bleed,
I bleed,
And I breathe,
I breathe,
I breathe
I breathe no more.
That I've come to believe my soul's on the other side.
All the little pieces falling, shatter.
Shards of me,
Too sharp to put back together.
Too small to matter,
But big enough to cut me into so many little pieces.
If I try to touch her,
And I bleed,
I bleed,
And I breathe,
I breathe no more.
Take a breath and I try to draw from my spirits well.
Yet again you refuse to drink like a stubborn child.
Lie to me,
Convince me that I've been sick forever.
And all of this,
Will make sense when I get better.
but I know the difference,
Between myself and my reflection.
I just can't help but to wonder,
Which of us do you love.
So I bleed,
I bleed,
And I breathe,
I breathe no
Bleed,
I bleed,
And I breathe,
I breathe,
I breathe
I breathe no more.
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That I've come to believe my soul's on the other side.
All the little pieces falling, shatter.
Shards of me,
Too sharp to put back together.
Too small to matter,
( this is like shes is using drugs or doing very bad things with the one she loves, but it comes to the point were she thinks that she lost herself and shes just doing the bad things because of her love)
But big enough to cut me into so many little pieces.
If I try to touch her,
And I bleed,
I bleed,
And I breathe,
I breathe no more.
( if she try to change herself the way he used to be( in a good way) she thinks or know that the one she loves(bf) will be gone from her life.
Take a breath and I try to draw from my spirits well.
Yet again you refuse to drink like a stubborn child.
(shes trying to convince her man to realize things that they can change in a good way but the man refuses like a stubborn child)
Lie to me,
Convince me that I've been sick forever.
And all of this,
Will make sense when I get better.
( the one that she love is telling her that she cannot change.
(sick) makes me thinks that shes on drugs or an alcoholic
but then shes still confuse that the one she loves might be right about it. however she still believes that she can change at everything will make sense when shes better.
But I know the difference,
Between myself and my reflection.
I just can't help but to wonder,
Which of us do you love.
( because she cant convince the man that she love to change for good. she thought which one did the man loved? the woman she was before or the woman that the man made bad)
So I bleed,
I bleed,
And I breathe,
I breathe no...
Bleed,
I bleed,
And I breathe,
I breathe,
I breathe-
I breathe no more.
( this part shows that she was hurt cause she cannot convince the man to change but she cannot breathe to stay that way so she left the man he love)
"I've been looking in the mirror for so long.
That I've come to believe my souls on the other side."
the mirror is her mask (mask as in the alternate persona that she has created to cover up her real self), she's been using it for so long that she has started believing that this mask is the real her. the mirror represents how well the mask had been made, flawless, perfect, at the same time it also portrays the fragile-ness of this mask, how easy it would be to break.
"All the little pieces falling, shatter.
Shards of me,
To sharp to put back together.
To small to matter,
But big enough to cut me into so many little pieces.
If I try to touch her,"
this implies that this mask that she has used for so long has finally broken as someone saw through it. "shards of me" show how well she has come to believe that she is the mask (where in reality, its just what she hid behind). the shards being "too sharp to put back together" represent the pain that she feels as she tries to convince (herself or the person who's seen through her mask probably the latter of the two) as well as her realization that what has been done cannot be undone. "too small to matter" represent that the mask has shattered to such point that these pieces are literally too small to put back together (there are too many errors with it), whereas if she tries to touch them in the sense she tries to meddle with her persona she feels the bitter pain of it being so badly broken now. once understood completely, this scene portrays such brutal and heartbreaking imagery its hard to explain in words.
"And I bleed,
I bleed,
And I breathe,
I breathe no more. "
this basically shows her suffering caused by her persona being broken so badly.
"Take a breath and I try to draw from my spirits well.
Yet again you refuse to drink like a stubborn child."
i don't completely understand this part, but i think spirits well is referring to her personal pain relievers (such as self harming) as spirits are basically another name for light alcohols and she is trying to draw some from her own reservoir (so she's trying to bring some "reinforcements" to the scene by introducing some of her "pain relievers"). however, whoever is "you" referring to, doesn't want to cover this up, "it" is stubborn and wants to go through this without any substance help. (again, i don't fully understand this part)
"Lie to me,
Convince me that I've been sick forever.
And all of this,
Will make sense when I get better."
she wants (perhaps her persona) to make her believe that what she is going through is fake, and when she has gone through it all she will then understand that it wasn't real.
"I know the difference,
Between myself and my reflection.
I just can't help but to wonder,
Which of us do you love."
here we kind of see a loophole, because now it we have to wonder, was the mirror that shattered her persona or actually herself (meaning the whole song if from the persona's point of view) and now she is posing a question to the person that shattered the "mirror" (i won't say persona because it is possible that it was the main character that shattered and this is her persona singing). there is a very twisted dilemma that is posed at this point and its hard to understand it. but once you understand it you see the beauty of it.
thats just what i think the song is about
"Oh the little pieces falling, shatter.
Shards of me,
To sharp to put back together.
To small to matter,
But big enough to cut me into so many little pieces."
This is about the parts of her that she has hidden away, or what is lost on the other side of the mirror. They seem small and trivial, but they are a part of her and so ignoring them is cutting her to pieces. She is conflicted over her the person she truly is, and the person she tries to be in order to please everyone. I imagine that this song was very therapeutic for her to write. It doesn't mean it is a split personality so much as it is about an internal conflict that she is trying to sort out.
(which of us do you love)
At the same time, the song seems to be talking about a relationship where doesn't know if he loves her for her looks, or who she is ("I know the different between myself and my reflection / I just can't help but to wonder, which of us do you love?"), which is a bit confusing, as I can't quite make a connection between the two meanings...
That I've come to believe my souls on the other side.
Oh the little pieces falling, shatter.
Shards of me,
To sharp to put back together.
To small to matter,
But big enough to cut me into so many little pieces.
If I try to touch her,
And I bleed,
I bleed,
And I breathe,
I breathe no more
I think this is about her believing what everyone, maybe a guy, is telling her about herself. And that she is trying hard to not believe them but it isn't working. She wants to give up.
Convince me that I've been sick forever.
And all of this,
Will make sense when I get better.
I know the difference,
Between myself and my reflection.
I just can't help but to wonder,
Which of us do you love.
This part to me makes me think that she knows something is wrong and is looking for comfort. She is also telling a guy that she can only have one of them, her or the fake her and which one does he love and is there for.
To me the ending makes it sound like she does commit suicide but it leaves it sort of open. It could be saying that she starts really living and breathes no more as the person she used to be.
"I've been looking in the mirror for so long / that I've come to believe my soul's on the other side"
(This means that she has thought about and loved her sister for so long, that the singer almost believes that the two are exactly alike, hence the "mirror")
"All the little pieces falling, shatter"
(Her relationship with her sister ending and her heart breaking when she dies.)
"Shards of me too sharp to put back together"
(Meaning the experience was so traumatizing that she cannot possibly recover from it.)
"Too small too matter / but big enough to cut me into so many little pieces"
(Too insignificant an event for most other people to care about, but yet it causes her so much pain and grief.)
"If I try to touch her / and I bleed.....I breathe no more"
(If Amy even tries to think about her, she grieves for her, feeling so much pain that she can barely manage it.)
"Take a breath and I try to draw from my spirit's well"
(She tries to talk several times to people she knows well (most likely her family members) about her sister so she can be comforted by them)
"Yet again you refuse to drink like a stubborn child / Lie to me, convince me that I've been sick forever / And all of this will make sense when I get better"
(However, they have already gotten over her death a long time ago, and just take Amy's grief as an annoyance. So they pretend to feel bad for her, telling her "This is normal" and "It'll get better" so she'll be comforted, but she knows they are lying.)
"But I know the difference between myself and my reflection"
(She's saying to them that she can still feel happy sometimes and doesn't think about her sister or grieve for her all the time.)
"I just can't help but to wonder, which of us do you love?"
(She wonders whether they even care for her or her sister anymore.)
So, yeah, that's my best interpretation of it. :)