Lyrics for Hello as interpreted by rjbucs28

Hello Lyrics
Playground schoolbell rings, again
Rainclouds come to play, again
Has no one told you she's not breathing ?
Hello, I'm your mind, giving you someone to talk to...Hello...
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...
Don't cry...
Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping
Hello, I'm still here, all that's left
Of yesterday..


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Neverhurt
01-22-2010

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The song makes me imagine a depressed and scitofrentic school girl. She seems as if she is in shock and is deining the fact of her loss. Even with this massive depression she still seems to want to put on a diffenet face for the world.

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LuckyStar123
01-17-2010

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This song makes me wanna cry. It's plain beutiful. It's about someone with some sort of mental disorder that results a double personality. The song is kind of describing her in a isolated state.

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CVenier
01-09-2010

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This song is really about her three year old sister who died of an unknown illness. Like you is also about her sisters death.

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Moontea
12-23-2009

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The truth of the matter is that this song can mean many things to many people. I don't know what it meant to Amy but have heard that it has to do with the death of her sister. For me is a sort of freeing song. Sad, true but freeing towards the end. I am a rape survivor and I also do a lot of counseling for other survivors. Many of us suffer, or have suffered from what is called MPD or Multiple Personality Dissorder. This dissorder can birth itself when a traumatic act occurs, and the mind creates a seperate personality to sheild itself from pain. The victim may sometimes use this Alter to continue sheilding themseves from the pain of everyday life, and in a way becomes a prisoner in their own body. Realizing that the alter is not the real you is the first step towards healing, and the end of this song reminds me of how I overcame being a victim and was born into being a survivor. That's just what it means to me. Thanks and Bless.

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meganinjamonkey
12-16-2009

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srry for the double comment

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meganinjamonkey
12-16-2009

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this song always makes me cry cuz i lost a friend a few months back cuz she commited suicide

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meganinjamonkey
12-16-2009

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this song always makes me cry i lost a friend a couple months ago cuz she commited suicide

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evanescencefan69
12-05-2009

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Amy Lee said according to Wikipedia and in an interview that this song was written for her sister. Amy's sister died of an illness. Amy was 6 and her sister Bonnie Lee was 3. Amy also wrote another song on her The Open Door album called Like You. towards the end of the song Like you she says "I long to be like you sis lie cold in the ground like you did".

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emoscreamo4525
11-06-2009

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I like boundeninabond's opinion. I don't know much about amy outside of the music. It is important, however, for a song to mean different things to different ppl. touch ppls hearts in different ways according to what means the most to the person. i don't know. that's really sad about her sister though.

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ScarletAnne1993
10-20-2009

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Amy wrote this for her sister who died at the age of three ffrom an unidentified illness and amy was only 6 years old at the time of her death. she wrote this song im memory of her late sister.

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fireoffate
10-17-2009

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i think this song is walking you through the prospecitive of someone who is in the process of dieing. the part where it says 'im your mind giving you someone to talk to' relates to the feeling of isolation durring death.'if i smile and dont belive . . . dont try to fix me' relates to the denile phase where the mind refuses to accept that death is coming. 'suddenly i know im not sleeping' is the shock when the person realizes that there actualy dead and that all they are is a memory ' all thats left of yesterday'

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GDR
10-11-2009

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Actually, I remember reading (somewhere, can't remember where) that this song is about Amy's sister. Apparently, while Amy was still in grade school, her younger sister died. This song is about how she remembers feeling when she found out.

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Kendrix
10-09-2009

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To put it in simple terms... And this is just for dramatic visualization,

Picture a fathers child killed on a playground, perhaps, just for the geist of it all, after falling off of the monkeybars and breaking her neck? ._.

Anyway, the father goes on with his life after the accident as if nothing happened, appearing to others to be fine, whilst inside fighting his own internal conflict.

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TryingNot2BreakOutInTears
09-24-2009

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Amy Lee wrote this song for the album The Open Door and thought it to be the 4th song. A version is that She wrote this because when she was 6 and her mother went 4 her 2 s-cool her 3-year-old sister died that`s why she says "Playground school bell rings... again". Another version is that Amy Lee's Sister Drowned when she was a little girl right in front of her, but the real meaning is the only thing she keeps in her mind

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musicalmasterpiecex3
08-25-2009

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my take on the song::
(i agree with previous posts that this is a mother dealing with the death of a child)

Playground schoolbell rings, again
Rainclouds come to play, again
-the playground schoolbell symbolizes childhood. and the rainclouds are the mother's sadness.

Has no one told you she's not breathing ?
- the mother is in denial and the second personality (the inner one; hidden by the outer personality the mother lives with)

Hello, I'm your mind, giving you someone to talk to...Hello...
- this is the original personality trying to make the outer one (the shield to the world) see that denial is more painful than dealing with the death.

If I smile and don't believe
Soon I know I'll wake from this dream
-this is the outer personality responding. the second line being yet another denial.

Don't try to fix me
I'm not broken
- this is the outer personality saying that there is nothing wrong with the denial. that it's sick of being asked if they're okay and sick of the inner personality trying to make it see the truth.

Hello, I'm the lie living for you so you can hide...
- this is the outer saying that the inner personality is just too afraid to face the world.

Don't cry...
- this is the inner personality calming the outer personality

Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping
- ^ because of this realization that the child is in reality dead.

Hello, I'm still here, all that's left
Of yesterday..
- this is the two blending back to the one person. who can safely grieve her child; without denial.


OKAY; NOW THAT I WROTE THAT OUT...IT SEEMS CRAZIER THAN IT DID WHEN I THOUGHT OF IT...oops. well...whateverr.
-mm♥


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HaHs
08-23-2009

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The song is about her sister who unfortunatly died as a child. I think the meaning of the lyrics just came to me. Litterally. What I have written bellow is what I imagine the composer's smind was like in the state of writng. It is very unfortunate.


Playground schoolbell rings, again
Rainclouds come to play, again
Has no one told you she's not breathing ?
- The schoolgrounds are carrying on as normal, people are going to school. The rain falls, as the weather carys on in a dim state. Why is it all carrying on as normal? Has nobody told you she's not breathing?

Hello, I'm your mind, giving you someone to talk to...
Hello...
If I smile and don't believe
Soon I know I'll wake from this dream
-I understand, talk to me. I'll be your mind. Hello, are you there? If I smile and don't believe that smile, I know I'll wake up from this dream. Because if I'm believing the bad things, clearly this is just a dream. Isn't it?

Don't try to fix me
I'm not broken
Hello, I'm the lie living for you so you can hide...
Don't cry...
- Leave me alone, stop asking if I'm okay. Of course I'm okay, I have no reason not to be. I'm living a lie so you can hide away. Don't cry, I'm here... It's only a dream...

Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping
Hello, I'm still here, all that's left
Of yesterday..
- Suddenly I know I'm awake and I realize that this isn't a dream. I'm still here, but I'm all thats left of yesterday, because you're not here...

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ashleyley92
08-22-2009

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Playground schoolbell rings, again
Rainclouds come to play, again
Has no one told you she's not breathing ?
Hello, I'm your mind, giving you someone to talk to...Hello...

I think that part is talking about a child that has been alone all her/his life


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...
Don't cry...

I think that part means that someone is depressed and someone noticed but that someone doesn't want help because they think they can fix themselves.

Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping
Hello, I'm still here, all that's left
Of yesterday..

I think that last part means that someone can't stop thinking of their past mistakes.

I hope my interpretation helped :)

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happyme4263
08-08-2009

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The song is 100% about death. When Amy Lee was 6 years old, her 3 year old sister died. But I don't think it's about her just finding out while at school, I think it's about how she feels about the death while at school.

Playground schoolbell rings again,
Rain clouds come to play again,

She uses the first line to state where she was and portray that it's a child.
The rain clouds are two things, the way she feels about what has happened(dreary, sad, depressed, the normal symbolisms for rain), and her denial. They come to PLAY again. She thinks it's only a game, such as hide-and-go-seek.

Has no one told you she's not breathing?
Hello I'm your mind giving you someone to talk to, Hello

The first line is most probably a counselor, a teacher, someone trying to get her to understand that her sister isn't coming back. The second line is her denial kicking in again. She'd rather be in her own world than deal with anyone who wants to convince her of what she won't believe.

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 am the lie living for you so you can hide, Don't cry

The first two lines are her denial, yet again. She thinks it's a dream, something that isn't real. She thinks reality is where her sister is still alive and that the dream is a horrible place where her sister is dead. It's the same complex as in "if I believe the boogie man isn't in my closet and isn't real, then he's not!"
The third line was probably put in there because she was sent to therapy. She's saying that she's not insane, she's perfectly fine. She doesn't understand why everyone is telling her she's wrong.
The last line is, as it says, the lie. It's her denial and refusal to believe that her sister is dead. For, if she believed it, she'd die.

Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping
Hello I'm still here
All that's left of yesterday

The first line is her realizing that she's not in a dream, that it's not a joke. Her sister really is dead and there's nothing she can do about it.
The last two lines are her denial still wanting to keep her from being sad, all that's left of yesterday is her memory of her sister. The entire time, the denial she was feeling was the memory of her sister kept alive by said denial.

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priestessofthewhite
08-04-2009

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The lines "has no one told you she's not breathing" and "don't try to fix me, I'm not broken" are the only lines I can actually feel sad about. Amy Lee is a very dramatic person and this song is one of her most depressing songs ever. Actually, all of her songs are depressing-she is down in loooooow if she feels sad enough to write about this stuff. I mean, I know it's about her sister, but writing some more stuff about a stalker (snow white queen) isn't going to make her any happier. I really do think she is a depressed person. She seriously can't write any happy stuff? Honestly, i've had better time listening to Nickelback's "If Everyone Cared". And that is one truly crap song.

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taylorofthephunk
07-31-2009

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I think it could be about a suicide. Maybe it's from the point of view of someone close to them, maybe a sister. Especially the "Hello, I'm still here, all that's left of yesterday" like "yesterday" is when the victim wasn't depressed. And maybe "Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken" is something the victim said at some point. I absolutely love this song, it's so spooky and beautiful.

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ConnectDisconnect
07-18-2009

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Simple, amy was 6 when her 3 year old sister died. this isnt about a school shooting

she has personaly said this and LIKE YOU is about her sister

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acbjw
06-16-2009

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this song is so amazing

it was written about amy lee's sister who died at 3 years of age when amy was 6

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mudvayne123456789
05-16-2009

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I think this is about someone who has lost a child or someone one who has lost someone really younge.... and they cant deal witht he fact that they are really gone..... because they are so mortified by the fact that they are that they try to ignore and pretend that everything is alright.

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3infactapples
04-27-2009

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I love this song, to me it seems to be from the point of view of someone who's in denial about the death of a loved one. I haven't read many of the comments on here so this may have been said a million times already but I think it's fairly obvious in these lines
"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"

I think it shows that the person who is in denial just needs time to recover, they're not broken and they don't need help they just need time to cope.

either way it's a beautiful song with a haunting melody and an instant favourite.

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almostforeverx
04-06-2009

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i think it;s about a playground shooting or something too..

Playground schoolbell rings, again

it's like everythings normal, despite how it obviously isn't.

Rainclouds come to play, again

rainclouds; depression. something bad/wrong.

Has no one told you she's not breathing ?
in school how everyone hears news so quickly.

Hello, I'm your mind, giving you someone to talk to...Hello...

she's unconcious & she only can hear her mind, rather than whats going on outside her body.

If I smile and don't believe
Soon I know I'll wake from this dream

she's not beliving that she's dying/dead. it's just a dream and she's just asleep.

Don't try to fix me
I'm not broken

pretty self explanatory. i don't need you to come andmake me better; nothings wrong.

Hello, I'm the lie living for you so you can hide...
Don't cry...

i'm not sure about thsi really :/ i knda see it likee, it's her speaking to herself again, and the lie is that she's belieing that she's only asleep. the lie is living but she's not and it's allowing her to hide from reality.

Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping

she realized that she's dead and not coming back..

Hello, I'm still here, all that's left
Of yesterday..

..but her mind is still talking to her. her body's stll there, she's all tha's left of her life from beforebut she's moving on now because she's passed away.



i don't know if everyones gonna think that's totally wrong but that's kinda just how i see it :/ i started to read everyone's but theres about ten pages and i only got to about two, ;p but yehhhh..

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