Angle v. Angel

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[–]no_u 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Lovely

[–]Musky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

🎵 In arms of an angle... 🎵

https://youtu.be/zWPhcG74j84

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What do you think this verse means?

Keep on building the lies

That you make up for all that you lack

~

My preference is to tell the truth, and to speak no lie, and to believe no lie.

[–]Musky 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The song is about heroin addicts.

"Angel" was one of the first songs written for Surfacing. Sarah McLachlan said that writing it was easy, "a real joyous occasion",[3] and that "the bulk of it came in about three hours". It was inspired by articles that she read in Rolling Stone about musicians turning to heroin to cope with the pressures of the music industry and subsequently overdosing, most notably Jonathan Melvoin, a keyboardist for the Smashing Pumpkins, who died of an overdose in 1996.[4][3][5] She said that she identified with the feelings that might lead someone to use heroin: "I've been in that place where you've messed up and you're so lost that you don't know who you are anymore, and you're miserable—and here's this escape route. I've never done heroin, but I've done plenty of other things to escape."[3] She said that the song is about "trying not to take responsibility for other people's problems and trying to love yourself at the same time".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_(Sarah_McLachlan_song)

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's worse than I expected, but thanks for the explanation. The dark side is getting them while they are young. There was a little girl, not even an adult, singing in this song. And they call this heroin an angel? No marvel, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. His light is deceptive, while God's light is true.

At God's right hand there are pleasures for ever more, but they are pure and come with no unpleasant side effects.

God is not boring and neither is his kingdom. If you look up and see the stars in the heavens, you are looking at the playground for God's children.