Breaking Benjamin – Evil Angel

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  My Interpretation:I think this could be interpreted multiple ways. It could be interpreted Biblically as Jesus on the cross, finally giving up His spirit to the Father, asking the Angel of Death (the Evil Angel, who has worked on the side of God and Satan, yet will be thrown to Hell in the end) to end His life, committing His spirit to the Father who left Him alone on the cross and would send Him to Hell for 3 days for the sins of all mankind (The wages of sin is death, which is complete separation from God in Hell. He would have to be crucified first to fulfill the Old Testament prophecies and to show as an example the love God has for us) The song could also be interpreted non-Biblically as someone who has suffered a lot in life and is finally welcoming the Evil Angel of Death to take them away from the suffering of life.

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  My Interpretation:My mother actually pointed this out to be...it's about sex
  
  "Put me to sleep, evil angel" - take me to bed
  "Open your wings, evil angel" - spread your legs
  "Fly over me, evil angel" - get on top
  "Why can't I breathe, evil angel?" - choking or just exhausting sex
  
  My mom's a trip huh? Anywhy don't take it to heart.
  

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  My Interpretation:My mother actually pointed this out to be...it's about sex
  
  "Put me to sleep, evil angel" - take me to bed
  "Open your wings, evil angel" - spread your legs
  "Fly over me, evil angel" - get on top
  "Why can't I breathe, evil angel?" - choking or just exhausting sex
  
  My mom's a trip huh? Anywhy don't take it to heart.
  

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  My Interpretation:This song is about contact with an entity that he identifies as an angel. Whether or not he's writing this truthfully and is literally being deceived i doubt but there is occult meaning here
  
  'I have the answer, spreading the cancer
  You are the faith inside me'
  
  Spreading its influences and considering it his true faith.
  
  
  No, don't
  Leave me to die here
  Help me survive here
  Alone, don't remember, remember
  
  Expressing his need for this entity and embracing It's truths. The don't remember refers to the scripture, the word of God, it's saying don't remember for if he had he would not need to put his faith in a mere creation of God
  
  Put me to sleep, evil angel - letting his sub-conscience be subjected to it's will
  Open your wing, evil angel - allowing its influence to be spread through his deeds
  
  
  I'm a believer
  Nothing could be worse
  All these imaginary friends
  Hiding betrayal
  Driving the nail
  Hoping to find a savior
  
  The Illuminate is run by Lucifer and along with his fellow fallen entities, this simply talks about all those 'imaginary friends' running the world through the hands of man.
  
  At the end of the song he asks his 'savior' why he can't breath, he has been betrayed, deceived, and misled from the word of God, just as anyone who gets sucked into the occult.
  
  This song is this sort of sub conscience influence whether you know it or not. I don't know why this is here or if they write their own lyrics but it's time to wake up and notice these things!
  
  or not?
  
  God bless!

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  My Interpretation:This song breaks my heart every time i listen to it. Personally, i think he's talking about an addiction here. Ben suffered from one, too, so it would fit. The way i see it is, an "Evil Angel" is something bad that's good, which makes me think of drugs, bc they're good and bad to the user. The first verse maybe suggests a personification of the addiction:
  
  "Hold it together, birds of a feather
  Nothing but lies and crooked wings
  I have the answer, spreading the cancer
  You are the faith inside me
  
  And then these lines and the chorus maybe talks about how the person knows that the addiction will slowly kill him (hence the evil angel) but he doesn't have any other kind of support in his life, so he's holding on to it with everything he's got.
  
  "No, don't
  Leave me to die here
  Help me survive here
  Alone, don't remember, remember"
  [Chorus]
  Put me to sleep, evil angel
  Open your wings, evil angel
  
  This verse, reinforces the idea of his isolation and increased dependence on the drug:
  "I'm a believer
  Nothing could be worse
  All these imaginary friends
  Hiding betrayal
  Driving the nail
  Hoping to find a savior
  No, don't
  Leave me to die here
  Help me survive here
  Alone, don't
  Surrender, surrender"
  
  And here the the person's asking the drug or the personification of the drug to solve his problems, basically. The person wants the drug to make everything better but then is feeling the harmful effects of it.
  [Chorus]
  "Oh
  Fly over me, evil angel
  Why can't I breathe, evil angel?"

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  Lyric Correction:To all the people who say the scream a the end of the chorus is UP!, I think it's actually FALL!

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  My Interpretation:I agree with ShallowBayBandit to an extent, but would actually like to expand upon a few things. I believe the first verse and chorus are from Jesus's point of view, and the second verse and chorus are from Judas's point of view. I am not a Christian though. And like ShallowBayBandit said, Ben isn't a Christian, so this probably isn't what he had in mind when he wrote the song, it's just what seems right to me.
  
  "Hold it together, birds of a feather
  Nothing but lies and crooked wings"
  
  Jesus is saying that all Christians need to stick together, because they have many enemies.
  
  "I have the answer, spreading the cancer"
  
  Jesus wants his disciples to spread the Word. Don't get why its cancer, but oh well.
  
  "You are the faith inside me"
  
  This is Jesus talking to his Father, God.
  
  "No, don't leave me to die here, help me survive here alone, don't remember, remember"
  
  This is Jesus on the cross, pleading with God to help him, and then believing God has forgotten him. Didn't mention at the beginning, but my interpretation doesn't exactly follow religious cannon; it's more like the alternate ending of how it could have gone wrong.
  
  "Put me to sleep Evil Angel
  Open your wings Evil Angel"
  
  Believing his Father has forgotten him on the cross, Jesus turns to the Evil Angel (AKA the Devil) for comfort.
  
  "I'm a believer, nothing could be worse"
  
  Judas talking here, regretting being a disciple.
  
  "All these imaginary friends"
  
  He believes that God is not real, that He's an "imaginary friend"
  
  "Hiding betrayal, driving the nail"
  
  Obviously referring to Judas's betrayal
  
  "Hoping to find a savior"
  
  Judas wishing for a savior
  
  "No, don't leave me to die here, help me survive here alone, don't surrender, surrender"
  
  Judas regretting betraying Jesus, wishing he had his savior back.
  
  "Put me to sleep Evil Angel, open your wings Evil Angel, fly over me Evil Angel, why can't I breathe Evil Angel?"
  
  Judas also turns to the Devil for comfort.
  
  Last is both of them.
  
  
  Once again, this is only my interpretation, and is almost certainly not correct. I will probably get a lot of hate from Christians for interpreting this song as Jesus giving up, but this is only how I see it, not how you have to see it.

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  My Interpretation:I just had a realization about this song and wanted to share it. Just read a quote from Shakespeare. "Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no Evil Angel but love." Just a thought, but Shakespeare is well enough known that they could have drawn a little inspiration from him. To me it sounds like he has been betrayed by everyone but he is holding on to the hope of love saving him. "The faith inside me" "Hoping to find a savior" The savior could be love in some form "opening it's wings to him."

  Flagged TheWildChildon July 02, 2012   Link

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  General Comment:to me, the song is like he's falling apart and is desperately trying to hold himself together (as interpereted in my eyes with the verse "hold it together, birds of a feather") and he also opens himself up to suggestions to try and hold it together and is succeeding until someone he cares about lies to him-"nothing but lies and crooked wings"-which is where he sees that no matter how much he tries to hold himself together there are always those who are lying to him to either hurt him or protect him and that they are the "crooked wings" meaning that they are trying to destroy him. "nothing but lies and broken dreams"-is like him saying that he finds out his dreams mean nothing. in other words, desperately trying to hold it together, but finding it hard due to peoples lies and people wanting to hurt him and shake him apart.

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  General Comment:This is a very confusing song. Like many have said, it could be about persecution, God, Satan, corruption of religion, and tons of other things. (Non of which are wrong.) Looking over this a few times, I'm starting to see a struggle between good and evil. As some of you may know, Ben Burnley is a recovering alcoholic. I don't know how many of you reading this have dealt with addiction before, but those who have know just how spiritually, emotionally, and physically weakening it can be. It puts so much stress and negativity on you that it feels like a war is being fought. (Which isn't far from the truth, in fact.)
  
  There are a many songs by Breaking Benjamin that deal with pain and addiction. (Dear Agony, Anthem of the Angels, Dance with the Devil, Unknown Soldier, ect.) This song seems to deal with spiritual side of addiction, the weakening effects and the desperate want to end it all. (Not by death, hopefully.) Ben appears to be going back from Satan to Christ. (Mostly just Satan though.)
  
  This is my best guess so far, but I will have to look at it more.

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