Breaking Benjamin: Evil Angel Meaning
Evil Angel Lyrics
Nothing but lies and crooked wings.
I have the answer, spreading the cancer,
You are the faith inside me.
No, don't
Leave me to die here,
Help me survive here.
Alone, don't remember,...
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My interpretation of this song is feeling alone.. Having lose everything you love and know and everything you ever faced was lies and betrayal.. Not so much suicide or murder. More less feeling as if you wanna die.. Not wanting to live anymore and wanting "evil angel" the angel of death in other words to take you out of this word to have the pain in
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Evil Angel Is About Betrayel A Person Trying To Help Someone Who Is Beyond Help He Loses Friends Because Of This Hence: "All These Imaginary Friends" And Hes Being Betrayed The Whole Way Through He Loses Everything But Still Tries And Tries And The "Evil Angel" Is The Person Hes Trying To Help Just My Opinion Still, Great Song.
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Evil Angel is the Angel of Death. "Fly over me" is a reference to the passover in Exodus, not "take me under your wing" to Satan. "All these imaginary friends" refers to the hope he had in his friends who failed to be there for him, not that God is imaginary, for if it did, he would not have said "I am a believer" or call for the Evil Angel (whom some say is Satan). The "don't leave me to die here" is calling the Angel of Death not to forsake him by sparing him instead of forsaking him by killing him. "Help me survive here" tells of his want to cope with the situation. He sees death as a release, so survival actually means death. Inverted, but awesome. "Birds of a feather" means that so many people evangelizing have stemmed from but a few words. When he says that he has the answer, it contradicts their lies. They are telling the people the wrong message. He hears more of the false prophets than truth speakers, as he claims to be. He wishes that he did not know it, for he, as a believer, feels he must spread it, though his messages are unfavorable (as denoted by "spreading the cancer") for his audience. "Driving the nail, hoping to find a savior" His "friends" are driving the nail, not he, while he is hoping for a savior, which means not Jesus but release. "Nail" is simply a poor choice of words being an old name for Satan, but it clashes with the superficial interpretation that "savior" means Jesus in this song. Why people think that the "friends" are hoping for a savior is an issue that is consistent in this song. The savior line along with "You are the faith inside of me" is the last lines before the second half of the verses, which more directly address the Angel of Death. The problem is that the instrumentation and tempo change after the lines, so it is grouped with the main verses. The transition in an essay should be the first line of the next paragraph rather than the last line of the previous paragraph, the latter is simulated in the verses of this song, so it throws off lyric interpreters/ audience. Finally "nothing but lies and crooked wings" means that the evangelizers who are spreading the false messages (like rejecting sinners instead of assimilating them into a benevolent/ideally benevolent culture of a church or other such community where the expression of such ideas should be unhindered) are telling lies. They are messengers, hence why "wings" in "crooked wings" is used. An angel is a messenger in the Bible. God's angel in Abraham's story is a messenger in human guise, and Gabriel who made the Annunciation is a messenger in the infancy narratives. Sorry I took so long, I could tell that few here have had the same sort of religious/symbolic upbringing I had on this page.
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One way of looking at it could lead you to believe that its about politics and gullibility. "Hold it together, birds of a feather
Nothing but lies and crooked wings" could be someone from the outside looking in, telling us to unite instead of fighting our wars.
"I have the answer, spreading the cancer
You are the faith inside me" we are following someone, possibly a political leader, who believes that they know how to solve everything.
"No, don't
Leave me to die here
Help me survive here" This is now the people's plea when they realize that they've been failed, and that there is no real solution to everything.
"Put me to sleep, evil angel
Open your wings, evil angel"
So many times our leaders have failed us, but we always turn a blind eye to that, and it keeps happening.
"I'm a believer
Nothing could be worse
All these imaginary friends
Hiding betrayal
Driving the nail
Hoping to find a savior" This could be the point of view of someone who sees the big picture, and knows what's actually going on. Imaginary friends could refer again to the political leaders, and how we support them, but do they really care?
"Oh
Fly over me, evil angel
Why can't I breathe, evil angel?"
If we keep fighting our wars and putting all our faith in politicians to fix things, we're eventually going to go down. We can't survive this way forever, and it may be our downfall. -
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Try reading "depression" or "addiction" instead of "evil angel".
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According to Shakespeare, there is no other evil angel but love. Accordingly, I think this song is talking about love. It is addictive and it absolutely has the power to destroy you from the inside out. It is so powerful because it comes from yourself, and you know yourself better than anyone.
'Why can't I breathe, evil angel'...why is love smothering me, taking me over, and why can't I can't stop it? -
This is my favorite song in the world (not only by Breaking Benjamin). I relive this song everyday so I know what the hidden message is! The whole song is about unrealized love.
He is suffering and he want's to die!
She is giving him false hope and he knows it! (Open your wings Evil Angel.) It's like he is saying: "I know you're fake, reveal yourself."
He prefer to forget her and go on but she's still there in his mind. (Fly over me Evil Angel.) She is always there, flying over him getting what's left alive away from him!
He love her and hate her at the same time. That's why he call her Evil Angel! He want to die than life in pain and lies! (Put me to sleep Evil Angel.)
His world is falling apart and his soul is death! (Why can't i breath Evil Angel?) It's like he is saying: "What you did to me, i'm dead inside?" He need her to help him survive, but he know it will never happen...
I feel like this song was written about my life or more precisely for the missing part of it D: You'll never find better interpretation for this song! -
I think that he is probably fed up of believing in himself and he feels like a complete loser, as he says in the line "all these imaginary friends". The evil angel he is talking about is death. He wants to die and let lose the ropes binding him with the bitter truth.
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It's talking about people doing evil under the guise of good (driving the nail hoping to find a savior). And maybe those people aren't even aware that they are being bad, and coloring it as good. Kind of... "God is an excuse" type of thing here.
They're talking about people who can't think for themselves (birds of a feather flock together) but who try to force others to conform (why can't I breathe). -
I'd have to say it's a man that wants to die. The term "put to sleep" is hard to misinterpret.
He is a man with faith, and that keeps him from this. So He is engaged in an internal struggle between letting go and going on. -
Well if you look at the lyrics then think about it its trying to say that he just has had enough of lonleyness drugs cancer and people who surrendered easy and put me to sleep evil angel is him giveing up *im only 11* so dont insult me im putting it how I think it is.
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I believe the part put me to sleep evil angel refers to the passover in the old testament
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I love this song. Listened to it so many times, I know it by heart. Anyways, I think I know what it means. I interpret it as kind of a weird, supernatural thing. Here:
"Hold it together, birds of a feather Nothing but lies and crooked wings(Referring to a group of people who are remaining loyal to each other, however, the group of people is corrupted, although they don't seem to know it)
I have the answer, spreading the cancer (The singer is suggesting that the only way to keep the group alive is to get others to become as corrupted, but he doesn't agree [see later lyrics])
You are the faith inside me (Speaking to 'Evil Angel,' the being who the singer thinks can put an end to the corrupted group)
"No, don't leave me to die here
Help me survive here (The singer is asking the Angel to save him and keep him alive among this evil group)
Alone, don't remember (The singer wants the Angel to destroy the group but save him, and to allow him to forget that he was even in the group)
Remember (The singer does have conflicting feelings about forgetting his corrupted group, because it is a part of him)
{Chorus}
"Put me to sleep evil angel (The singer is considering asking the Angel to kill him)
Open your wings evil angel (The singer is asking for the Angel to do something)
"A-ah
"I'm a believer, nothing could be worse (The singer belives something should be done about the group, but he has inner turmoil because is a member)
All these imaginary friends (His groupmates seem to be his friends, but he knows they are not)
Hiding betrayal (He feels that it's wrong to betray his group and ask the Angel to destroy them, so he's trying to keep it a secret)
Driving the nail (He is still asking anyway)
Hoping to find a savior (He is hoping that the Angel will be able to 'save' him by destroying the group)
"No, don't
Leave me to die here
Help me survive here (see above)
Alone, don't
Surrender, surrender (The singer kind of hopes that the group can stay strong and resist the power of the Evil Angel, but at the same time he knows that something must be done about them)
{Chorus}
{Bridge}
"Fly over me Evil Angel (The singer realizes that the Angel is about to destroy the group)
Why can't I breathe Evil Angel? (The singer now realizes that, although he wanted to be saved, he is part of the group and must be destroyed as well. Basically, he's dying and wondering why.)
{Chorus}
{Bridge}
There you go. Hope it clears things up for someone out there.
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