Nightwish – Wish I Had an Angel

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  General Comment:"If we were to indeed go down the path of the whole Tuomas/Tarja/Marcello mess then the interpretation would be this:"
  I agree with this comment. it makes all the sense

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  Song Meaning:The song is referring to innocence being corrupted, but not wanting to go back. They use the word "angel" as a metaphor for virginity. This can clearly be seen when they sing: "Your Virgin Mary Undone [...]." It's saying that he wishes he could take her virginity and that he wants it, "Tonight!"

  Flag death1ordon January 18, 2013   Link

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  General Comment:old loves die hard,old lies they die harder.my favorite lines.they are soooo true

  Flag libernateron March 29, 2012   Link

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    Enjoy your lust, although I doubt that's her name. I have other plans than to sit around and cry.

    Flag SweetCheeks2on March 29, 2012  
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  General Comment:Heres kinda how play the story of this song out in my head
  
  I wish I had an angel
  For one moment of love
  I wish I had your angel tonight...
  
  This part the couple are fighting and the girls wishing he was a nicer person
  
  Deep into a dying day
  I took a step outside
  An innocent heart
  She went out with probley some friends just to have fun
  Prepare to hate me, for when I may
  This night will hurt you like never before.
  
  This is where shes telling him that she fucked up and he better sit down and get ready to have his heart broken
  
  Old loves, they die hard
  Old lies, they die harder
  
  She Meet one of her old loves who im thinking is probley ones of his friends the lie is she never loved him and was just using him to get to his friend
  
  I wish I had an angel for one moment of love
  I wish I had your angel, your Virgin Mary undone
  I'm in love with my lust
  Burning angel wings to dust
  I wish I had your angel tonight
  
  Coruse is explained futher down
  
  I'm going down so frail and cruel
  Drunken disguise changes, all the rules
  
  Rules change when you are drunk, cuz you ack in ways you normal wouldnt she is telling him that she a cruel person and trying to blame her cheating on the drinks she had
  
  Old loves they die hard
  Old lies they die harder
  
  I wish I had an angel for one moment of love
  this line hes yelling at her that he wished she was the angel he thought she was
  
  I wish I had your angel, your Virgin Mary undone
  Here hes yelling at the other guy telling him he wished his angel but sees that shes nothing but a liar
  I'm in love with my lust
  Burning angel wings to dust
  Here the other guy is telling him that hes just in love with having sex with other peoples women
  
  I wish I had your angel tonight
  the guy again telling his firend that i wish she was the angel he thought she was
  
  Greatest thrill, not to kill,
  But to have the prize of the night
  Hypocrite,
  Wannabe friend
  Thirteenth disciple, who betrayed me for nothing!
  
  This part is the guy in the story confronting the guys she has sex with calling him a hypocrite and telling him that he just wanted to be his friend to have her hence the 13th disciple who betrayed him for nothing but the prize of the night for nothing more then the thrill of it and he might as well have killed him and it would have been less of a betraly
  
  Last dance, first kiss
  Your touch, my bliss
  Beauty always comes with dark thoughts
  
  This sence kinda like a prelode to the whole thing the other guy and her was sharing a last dance when they shared there first kiss, and his touch made her weak and frial and she was over come with how good looking he was and gave in to temptaion
  
  Repeat chorus
  
  I wish I had an angel
  I wish I had an angel
  I wish I had an angel!
  I wish I had an angel
  the repeat here with the guy yelling at them as me storms out of the room

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  General Comment:ummm... anybody who doesn't realize this song is blatantly about sex is either an idiot or a virgin. It is about a sadistic relationship where both the man and woman are trying to get as much pleasure as possible.
  
  "greatest thrill, not to kill, but to have the prize of the night"
  
  also the chorus just screams sexual. and she starts moaning near the end of the song

  Flag Ukobarrywewaon September 24, 2011   Link

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  Song Meaning:Aracos said something about traition. What does that word means? Can't find it in dictionary. Sorry, i dont speak English that well. :D

  Flag gingerflyon July 01, 2011   Link

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    He meant "treason" (= act of betraying someone). I guess he doesn't speak English that well either :)

    Flag jetwolfon August 07, 2011  
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  General Comment:It could be that Mya, but my interpretation is a wedding (believe it or not) between the wrong pair. It's a REALLY strange interpretation, but here's what I have;
  Two girls loved each other, however the family did not know and betrothes one of the girls to a man they think will be good for her. Unfortunately, the man can be a bit violent, and to make sure he gets his bride he makes sure the true lover of this girl is kept well away. Here's what I see
  
  "I wish I had an angel for one moment of love, I wish I had your angel tonight."
  The man wants an angle; HIS angel, in a sense. To me, it's as if he doesn't really care who it is as long as it gives undying love to him; not as a person or lover, but simply as a pet; he wants his pet angel for the "love" that he can recieve from it.
  
  "Deep into her dying day
  I took a step outside an innocent heart."
  The girl knows she's marrying someone she doesn't want, and she's basically given herself up to it, somewhat forgetting her previous love with the woman she actually liked, making her literally step outside her "innocent heart".
  
  "Prepare to hate me, fall when I may
  This night will hurt you like never before."
  The girl is telling her true love that they won't be able to marry, that she has no other choice in it; she tells her love that she should prepare for the worst and try to move on with her life, maybe forget her so that it doesn't hurt as much, despite the pain she knows will come.
  
  "Old loves they die hard
  Old lies they die harder."
  THe girl in question is still in love with the woman, however she knows that to make her family, and probably the town she lives in, happy, she'll need to continue with this lie and marry the man.
  
  "I wish I had an angel for one moment of love
  I wish I had your angel your virgin mary undone
  I'm in love with my lust
  Burning angel wings to dust
  I wish I had your angel tonight."
  This is the man monologuing; he wants his pet angel (the girl in this case) so that he may do whatever he wishes with her, regardless of morals or decency, or even humanity; he cares only for sating his lust, and gives no thought to the pain she'll give this girl. Because of this, he will literall burn away her purity and make her his slave.
  
  "I'm going down so frail and cruel
  Drunken disgiuise changes all the rules."
  This is a mix between both girls now; the second is trying to hide her sadness through a mask, however it falters entirely while the first girl is saddened and pain that she has to marry a man who will probably ruin her life. THe second girl starts taking to the bottle, and slowly (Through a "drunken disguise") sobers up and comes with a plan to save her love (in the sense that she thinks she can't give up just yet).
  
  *Repeat the couplet* The two girls know they can't forget their love, but the first knows she has to continue her lie.
  
  *Chorus*
  The man is preparing for his wedding (his prize), and makes sure that everything goes according to plan, still thinking about how he'll have a slave of his own.
  
  Marco's lines:
  "Greatest Thrill, not to kill
  But to have the prize of the night
  Hypocrite
  Wannabe friend
  13th disciple who betrayed me for nothing!"
  The man confronts the love of the girl he's about to marry, and it's revealed that this second girl and the man used to be friends. IN explanation for this wedding (or stealing of the second girl's love), he states that he just wants his thrill, not the thrill of war he may have fought in, but the thrill of having a little slave girl. The second girl, in return, calls him a liar and a hypocrite, stating that he is like a Judas, who betrayed her for his own personal gain.
  
  "Last Dance first kiss
  Your touch my bliss
  Beauty always comes with dark thoughts."
  It's the night of the wedding, and the girl and man that are about to be married have different thoughts going through their head; the girl thinks that this will be her last night of innocence, where she will give herself up to the lust, while the man envisions a perfect little slave who will do whatever he asks, gratifying his thoughts of lust (or his "dark thoughts").
  
  *The moans in the song, along with the laugh*
  I find this extremely important; after the last three aforementioned lines, there is the sounds of a girl moaning and then a laugh; the man imagimes even more of his perfect slave, but his thought train is cut off by laughter; the laugh of the second girl who is the true love of the girl getting married.
  
  *Chorus*
  Now it's the first girl thinking that this is a different turn of events, where she just might be saved, while the man considers it a horrific change in plans and his wants.
  
  "I wish I had an angel"x4
  This to me shows the finish; the second girl pushes the man out of the way, takes the first girl and kisses her lovingly, literally becomming "her angel". The man wanted the girl to be his little angel pet, white the second girl becomes "the angel" that the first wished for so that she could avoid this marriage and be joined with the one she truly loved.
  
  Simply my interpretation, I could be wrong.

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    wait what where are you getting the lesbian relationship out of this? the only reference i thought you made to it was the laugh in the interim near the end of the song

    Flag regal68on May 13, 2011  
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  My Interpretation:Well, this is what I got from the song. It is after dark, and a young teenage girl takes a walk outside. ("Deep into a dying day
  I took a step outside") It's deep in the day, essentially because it's after dark and it's later on in the day. She did not do anything wrong, she was minding her own business, and then some1 kidnaps her and sells her into prostitution! Kind of like what happened in the movie "taken". She may never see her loved ones again ("Old loves they die hard") and if she ever lied to one of them and they are still believing the lie to be a truth, then it is even worse to her.... Okay... well... er..... never mind those two lines, here comes the chorus. The chorus is not in perspective of the girl, rather in perspective of her "customer", per say. He wants an angel for a moment of love (he just wants to get laid.) Her virgin mary undone, basically that means that the girl is a virgin and her cherry is going to explode to someone she doesn't even know. This guy is horny and that basically spells out "I'm in love with my lust". Burning angel wings to dust is also mentioning losing virginity, assuming that now that she is no longer a virgin she lost her angel wings. She's going down so frail and cruel, meaning she is forced to give this guy a blowjob but she doesn't want to.
  Okay let's see here..... Marco? I thought the guy's name was Emppu. Oh well. "Last dance, first kiss". She has been heavily sedated to where she cannot walk anymore, so she will no longer be able to do walking/movement activities anymore, such as dancing. However, she has received her first kiss from this.... guy. "Your touch, my bliss." Also from the customer's perspective, saying that he enjoys her "company".. if ya know what I mean! And finally, "beauty always comes with dark thoughts." This girl was attractive, and that is probably why she was kidnapped in the first place. The guy who kidnapped her may not have gone for her if she was ugly, but just because of the fact that she was hot he saw money in her. And that is my interpretation of this song.
  
  

  Flag Myagooshkion July 24, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:First off, when I first heard this with Tarja I thought it was decent butt not amasing. Hearing Anette perform it, it sounds absolutely perfect. It works as a duet between Anette and Marco.
  
  Second: to those of you who say the lyrics have no meaning, you are giving a great insult to Tuomas' writing, which is generally very insightful and spiritual. I cannot pretend to know what he intended with this song, but it is obvious the theme of beauty and innocence is a part, and how possesing a great beauty is at the cost of the innocence therein. By becoming a possession, something of the purity is lost.

  Flag Meirionaon May 05, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:ACTUAL LYRICS:
  
  I wish I had an angel
  For one moment of love
  I wish I had your angel tonight...
  
  Deep into a dying day
  I took a step outside
  An innocent heart
  Prepare to hate me, for when I may
  This night will hurt you like never before.
  
  Old loves, they die hard
  Old lies, they die harder
  
  I wish I had an angel for one moment of love
  I wish I had your angel, your Virgin Mary undone
  I'm in love with my lust
  Burning angel wings to dust
  I wish I had your angel tonight
  
  I'm going down so frail and cruel
  Drunken disguise changes, all the rules
  
  Old loves they die hard
  Old lies they die harder
  
  I wish I had an angel for one moment of love
  I wish I had your angel, your Virgin Mary undone
  I'm in love with my lust
  Burning angel wings to dust
  I wish I had your angel tonight
  
  Greatest thrill, not to kill,
  But to have the prize of the night
  Hypocrite,
  Wannabe friend
  Thirteenth disciple, who betrayed me for nothing!
  
  Last dance, first kiss
  Your touch, my bliss
  Beauty always comes with dark thoughts
  
  Repeat chorus
  
  I wish I had an angel
  I wish I had an angel
  I wish I had an angel!
  I wish I had an angel!

  Flag ladyamaranthon April 26, 2009   Link

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