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I've been wanting to do this for a long time. And when I say 'Person', I mean the person who wrote the song (well in this case Amy...) but I don't like using names, so I made 'Person' a name. (yes, I made person a girl...that's because "themself" sounds like more than one person...and yeah..lol)
I’ve been looking in the mirror for so long.
That I’ve come to believe my soul's on the other side.
Person thinks that she is being someone she's not, and she thinks that she have lost the real her.
Oh the little pieces falling, shatter.
She finally doesn't want to live being someone she's not. Person doesn't want to live a lie.
Shards of me,
Too sharp to put back together.
Person knows that she can't go back to the old way she was.
Too small to matter,
But big enough to cut me into so many little pieces.
If I try to touch her,
Person thinks that she didn't matter before, but the memories of the way she was, hurts so bad inside when she thinks about it.
And I bleed,
I bleed,
And I breathe,
I breathe no more.
Person tries to be the way she was, but it hurts so bad that she knows she can't go back. With the 'and I bleed' and 'I breathe no more" comments, she may be cutting, or trying to commit suicide, but it more likely may be just the symbol of the broken glass from the mirror cutting and/or killing her.
Take a breath and I try to draw from my spirits well.
Yet again you refuse to drink like a stubborn child.
Person tries to recollect herself, but she can't. Person is talking to herself when she says "yet again you refuse to drink like a stubborn child." Person may remember a time when she was forced to fit what someone wanted them to be, and if so, Person knows that she has to do it again.
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.
Someone tries to tell Person that everything she is thinking and feeling is just in her head, but Person knows that it isn't, it's real, and it's the truth. Person knows who she is and knows that she can't go on being the lie she was.
I just can’t help but to wonder,
Which of us do you love.
The person who says that it is all in Person's head is obviously someone very close to Person. Person wonders if the person loves her for who she is, or just the lie she was before.
So I bleed,
I bleed,
And I breathe,
I breathe now...
Person is deciding to be herself.
Bleed,
I bleed,
And I breathe,
I breathe,
I breathe-
I breathe no more.
Person gives in to the person close to her, and decides go back to the lie she was before. Probably after trying to be herself, but seeing that her loved one doesn't like it, is when she decided to change back to the way she was before.
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This is probably really confusing, but oh well. It was fun!! I love doing this with poetry and since lyrics are poetry this is even better-er!
--Susan
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