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in one night you made me your own the deepest embrace's creation i layed there for days and you forgot in one night you made me your own in one hour you gave me away to the angels you sent me up to the sky now their wings fan the heat from the face you'll never see the hair you'll never smell the little hands you'll never hold now i am but a silhouette down there a silhouette of a memory of a solitary night nothing more.
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Anyway, I think whoever came up with the lyrics was writing about adoption, and probably was adopted or knew someone close that as adopted. Like "in one hour you gave me away to the angels you sent me up to the sky" alludes that they gave him up for adoption relatively quickly (one hour) and now either his foster parents or the people at the adoption center are now taking care of him (you gave me aw
ay to the angels). I don't believe he is talking about literal angels, mostly because I do not believe in them, however, using angels as a term for an endearing person/s. As someone else said, they leave lyrics open up for interpretation so it could be taken many different ways.
I don't know, but that's the good thing about it, it's up to your interpretation. There could probably be lots more meanings behind this song, stories left untold, it all lies in your perspective of the songs meaning :)
"Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is a poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It describes an Acadian girl named Evangeline Bellefontaine, who was separated from her love, Gabriel Lajeunesse, by the Great Expulsion of the Acadians. Evangeline was sent to New England, but Gabriel was sent to Louisiana. After becoming a nurse in Philadelphia, she discovers that one of her patients was Gabriel. The sight of him caused a fatal emotional shock to Evangeline. They died with each other united and were buried together.
The figure of Evangeline has since become a central part of Acadian culture, despite Longfellow having no links to it. Evangeline was not a usual Acadian name before the poem, but today it is commonplace."
Sorry for the long post but I thought it might help.
I love this song, especially since it has so much emotion and meaning. My name is Evangeline aswell. I for one, believe this song is about abortion.
For those who don't believe it, and still think it's all about a one night stand, I'll explain it to you.
"In one night you made me your own"
-One magical night, where two people make love and an egg gets fertilized and a new life is created.
"The deepest embrace's creation "
-Sex is the deepest embrace, and sex is what helps to create a child.
"I lay there for days and you forgot"
The mother, had no idea that she was pregnant.
"In one night you made me your own in one hour you gave me away to the angels"
-It takes no longer than an hour to get an abortion, and kill the embyo.
"You sent me up to the sky"
It is a common belief in Christianity, that when either a believer or a child dies, they go skyward to heaven.
"Now their wings fan the heat from
The face you'll never touch"
-Her child is dead, gone forever from her. When a mother holds her newborn child, she wants to embrace it, love it, caress it.
"The hair you'll never smell the little hands
you'll never hold"
-Once again, this deals with the loving touch that mothers give to their babies and children. As they grow, they have a tendancy to want to hold the hands of their child, protect them.
"Now I am just a silhouette down there"
-Down there refers to the uterus, where the child would grow within the protection of its mother, and now, it is dead, gone, removed from her, just a shadow of the life it once was.
haven't you guys ever read the poem titled "EVANGELINE"? it's by a man named Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. it's a really old and famous poem, it's kind of like Romeo and Juliet
it's about these two people [Evangeline and Gabriel] and they in love. they got deported from their country and were seperated. they searched their whole lives trying to find each other, and when they finally did Gabriel was dying, and he died in Evangeline's arms.