YAAAAAAAAAY! lool i dont know how come you're up soo early on New Year's but that came to my advantage

and now....breathe no more and let the drum roll...*trumpets*

shit ok DRUM ROLL *drum rollllllllllllllllllllllllll*

I've been looking in the mirror for so long.
That I've come to believe my souls on the other side.

Amy isnt living her own self. Shes living a lie...shes pretending to be some1 else. The mirror is metaphoric..she doesnt actually see her image as being the true her. To me the mirror represents her inner self, the thoughts she has, her guilty conscience of playing a role she doesnt fit in..pretending to be some1 else to satisfy the others

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.

Simple and straight forward..this is Amy's reality check. Everytime she has a "clash" between the presumed Amy and true Amy she's hurt. The bleeding is a representation of her state of extreme pain..whats more hurtful than bleeding from a mirror-cut (or a migrane...whatever lol). The "shards" point out to Amy's state of confusion and her being lost..shattered to the point where she cant pull her self back together or find the true her

Take a breath and I try to draw from my spirits well.
Yet again you refuse to drink like a stubborn child.

Im assuming this refers to a dear person to Amy..maybe an x boyfriend or close family member...whoever it is meant to be for, Amy here explains how she gets rejected everytime she tries to go back to her trueself. Drawing from her spirits well resembles the search for her inner truth, and the refusal to drink is the rejection...that person or people want to immobilize Amy in her state of lies and presumptions, locking up the true her

Lie to me,
Convince me that I've been sick forever.
And all of this,
Will make sense when I get better.

Trying to convince Amy that shes living an ordinary life, that whatever she thinks is fake is actually the truth, and that her state of denial is temporary...to her they all sound as lies

I know the difference,
Between myself and my reflection.
I just can't help but to wonder,
Which of us do you love.

The question that strikes almost everysingle one of us: "If i were to be someone else, would person X still love me?" Amy doesnt have to wonder about it...she lives it...shes both Amy and presumed Amy...and she doesnt know which one is dearest or most with-held

Now if we put together all of these lines in a full interpretation, we get this lol : (prepare yourselves for a long one)

My take on the song, and ive heard this interpretation many times, this song is about Amy being involved in somekind of highly demanding relationship, that causes her to act out as some1 that she isnt. She hides her identity, and wishes she can exist as herself, and her thoughts lead her to a point where she rebells against the life shes leading, and wonder whether those who love her love the true Amy or the presumed Amy.

The lyrics move like a short story, she introduces herself as a reflection of her self-created lie, an image in a shattering mirror that seems to hurt her everytime she tries to fix it. The bleeding and lack of breath isnt suicidal, i believe, although others may disagree, her bleeding is a mere rep of her pain, and her lack of breath reps her need to move on and "cross to the other side of the mirror", where her true self is. Although i dont know who she specifically is referring to in the 2nd verse, u can only assume shes talking about those who surround her continuously, such as her family and friends, who might have lied to her about something that she had come to discover and hid away from.

She tries hard to return to her own true self, but every1 rejects her true change, they refuse to drink from her spirits well which means they reject her truthness.

I have heard from some ppl that BNM was written for a close reason to that of Hello, a journal if u like of Amy's thoughts during the time which she was devastated with her sister's death. Others claimed this was Amy's response to an obsessive and violent relationship, where Amy had to pretend she was happy and wish for the best, hoping one day it will get better. In the course of whichever reason, Amy loses herself to the lies shes surrounded by, and realises that its killing her.

This is a perfect song for Elektra...shes a lost soul...and she breathes no more