Evanescence – Missing

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Please, please forgive me,
But I won't be home again.
Maybe someday you'll have woke up,
And, barely conscious, you'll say to no one:
"Isn't something missing?"

You won't cry for my absence, I know
You forgot me long ago.
Am I that unimportant?
Am I so insignificant?
Isn't something missing?
Isn't someone missing me?

[Chorus]
Even though I'm the sacrifice,
You won't try for me, not now.
Though I'd die to know you love me,
I'm all alone.
Isn't someone missing me?

Please, please forgive me,
But I won't be home again.
I know what you do to yourself,
I breathe deep and cry out:
"Isn't something missing?
Isn't someone missing me?"

[Chorus]

And if I bleed, I'll bleed,
Knowing you don't care.
And if I sleep just to dream of you
And wake without you there,
Isn't something missing?
Isn't something

[Chorus]

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Track duration: 04:16

"Missing" as written by Amy Lee, Ben Moody, David Hodges

Lyrics © Chrysalis One Music

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    Song Meaning:A person who feels like she unwanted she feels so unimportant like she invisble and she feels like she doesn't even exist in this world anymore
    Flag LightAngelon April 13, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:I think this song is about how you just feel so unwanted and just forgotten. No one seems to care how you feel and you're just so insignificant.
    Flag BreakMeOpenon June 17, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:Well to me is a relationship with a parent. It pretty much sums up most of my upbringing. My brother got involed in drugs at 12 and B&E's and was out of control, I was 10 at the time. And I got shoved to the background. He was always the "favorite" though. I just I guess was different from the rest of them. My mom was always telling me there was something wrong with me, cause I felt different towards things, and just was a little more particular. They are rougher type people, live in rough neighbourhoods and feel comfortable there. Im not snotty but I just live cleaner i guess.
    To this day they chase after my brother who just uses them for money, and continues to take hard drugs and steal...and Im left alone. whenever I make a attempt to stay in touch...its a stiff unfriendly welcome :( So you might be brought into the world from certain people, live with them for years and just have nothing in common with them, shouldnt be that way :( I cry inside everyday.
    Flag Jeveon May 30, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:To me this song just fits exactly how i feel with what I'm going through. My girlfriend is bipolar and I have depression issues. Every five seconds I'm doing something wrong to her. She constantly gets irritated and then goes on to ignore me and starts to watch tv or play video games. I am always apologizing and begging for forgiveness for what feels like the crime of my mere existence. If I dont do something that irritates her then she just doesnt notice me period. I keep thinking about leaving because I'm trying to retain my last ounce of self respect but I stay because she used to be kind, understanding, and really fun. I can walk away or say something and she never looks up from her facebook or tv. I can go in the bathroom and cut and she doesnt notice until she has to go. She yells at me for cutting and being depressed because of it being too much stress for her but I end up always going back because of constant yelling and insults. I've never had anyone. I dont have any real friends because people always betray me. I'm all alone and I need her to be there for me but she wont look up. I'm trying desperately to be understanding of her bipolar and how hard it is but she isnt being understanding of my depression. She kicked me out of our home til I get stable and stop cutting because its too much for her while not really realizing that I could stop cutting and control my depression if she could just control her anger. She told me to keep cutting because I would never stop but I wont bring her down with me not that long ago. So I can cut knowing she doesnt really care. I can watch the blood spill knowing that it wont bother her. I go to sleep just to wake without her next to me or even wanting to be near me. Noone has ever really bothered to look at who I really am so they wouldnt miss me but just the image of me that they have created for their convenience.
    Flag Psychoguileon January 23, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:The song is a suicide attempt:
    "you won't cry for my absence, I know"
    "and if I bleed, I'll bleed"
    The character states very clearly that they are a sacrifice ("I'm the sacrifice"), and what happens to a sacrifice???
    Whoever they are talking to - in my opinion, a parent - has been neglectful and it seems the protagonist has merely faded into the background of their life.
    Even the pleas - "please, please forgive me" - are a reference to the suicide. Many consider suicide to be a sin, a big one at that, and the protagonist feels the need to apologize for their actions. Just the fact that they feel they should apologize hints at the sense of worthlessness this person feels - a common cause for suicide.
    Flag TheDonJuanon October 11, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:This song is clearly about divorce and the trauma a young child goes through experiencing such a scenario. The lyrics explain it to a T. When Amy says "But I wont be home again", she isn't literally speaking about not being home again. She's saying "I'll never feel whole again". A young child needs parents (both parents) to grow and become a normal adult. Without them, being "raised" feels divided, if not, incomplete. It can really mess with someone and screw with them throughout maturity. When she says "you wont cry for my absence I know, you forgot me long ago" she isn't speaking to a boyfriend...she's speaking to parents that wont take a look at what they're damaging by making such decisions. "Am I that unimportant? Am I so insignificant? Isn't something missing? Isn't someone missing me..." Will someone please think of the children? It's clearly saying "don't you see what this does to me?" Sad. "Even though i'm the sacrifice, you wont try for me, not now. Though i'd die to know you love me, i'm all alone." Children can't decide when two people decide to stop loving one another and split up. They can only sit there and be effected by it. And when two parents are in the throes of divorce, all they can think of is their hatred for one another and not really understand how damaging it is to the child who has no choice but to sit and watch their entire foundation split in half. Literally, a child's entire process of growing up with two loving parents becomes sacrificed for their hatred for one another. They tend to forget the child exists and it's needs for a normal family life and to be raised as a normal human being. "You forgot my absence...i'll bleed knowing you don't care..." Divorce can seriously effect a person, even later in life. "And if I sleep just to dream of you, i'll wake without you there." This closes it off that a person wishes they could feel whole and complete, raised a normal human being but their parents split and now custody is divided and it's damaging. The person wishes they could have both at once, when they felt innocent, needed and wanted but it'll never happen again. Clearly, this song is about divorce and what it does to a child throughout life.
    Flag halod9on October 04, 2011   Link
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    Song Meaning:To me, personally. I can relate to this song by it being about a shattered mother/daughter relationship. Not feeling wanted by a mother/father figure. Like, this song could have easily been about how I felt against my mother when I would run away when I was younger. Anyone else think it so?
    Flag Didgets85on September 18, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:This song makes me think of the situation I'm in myself.

    When I listen to this song, I feel that it is about a girl who is so in love with a guy who doesn't even notice her anymore, let alone feel the same way for her. She feels that she has no choice but to leave even though it hurts her so much because she truly loves him.
    Flag xXNaomiXxon August 11, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:Whenever I listen to this song, it makes me think of the situation I'm in myslef.

    To me, this song is about a girl who is so in love with a guy who doesn't really even notice her anymore, let alone feel the same way for her. She feels that leaving is the only thing that she can do, no matter how much she loves him and it hurts.
    Flag xXNaomiXxon August 11, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:I didn't see this listed yet but to me for some reason this song seems to fit perfectly with the movie "The green river killer'" About all those women who were killed, they were unwanted, unloved, some had been abused and had really crappy lives. Then at the end of the movie when they asked the killer why he killed those girls he said that they were worthless and expendable. This song sounds like a song for those girls. Most of the girl's bodies were never found and some are lost forever only to be forgotten. It's a sad song and a sad movie but they seem to fit perfectly together. To be unwanted in life and forgotten in death, it's so heart retching.
    Flag numbfeelingon December 05, 2010   Link

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