| Tribal Seeds – Dark Angel Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I think a more accurate interpretation would be that this song is about going through depression about a girl he's lost. *the dark angel is not this girl A dark angel or fallen angel in Abrahamic religions (which is appropriate for Rastafarians) is an angel that had been cast away from heaven and tempts people to sin. The chorus refers to suicide; the dark angel tempts him to commit suicide (the dark angel comes to darken his night) to relieve him of all of his suffering/depression about the girl (she wiped away the years he cried). But he's conflicted about whether suicide is the right thing or not or whether to go forward with it or not (which way does this angel stride?). The first verse introduces his depression which includes being angry, lonely, sad... So many emotions and thoughts... being lost in his own head... questioning/fighting with himself (talking to the ears of no one). All he wants is someone, the girl, to come to him to share his life with (... and proceed on my road). The second verse tells of the conflict that's going on in his head; He used to "have her." Now he can only say he "had her." "Said I want her, just don't need her." This line could be referring to a part of how it ended with the girl... Something happened and he tried to cope with it by convincing himself that he merely wanted her, not that he NEEDED her. Or the line could be referring to the conflict in his head after he lost her to excuse himself from what happened and to try to get over her. "If he gets what he wants, he still might not be satisfied." This line just adds to all the conflict that's going on in his head during his depression... All the thoughts and questions. You get lost in your own head and you are your own worst enemy when you're feeling this way so this line is an attempt to brush it all off because even if he gets what he wants, he still might not be satisfied. It implicates other problems there could have been with the girl, but what's eating him/what's more important to him now is that he doesn't have her. "Yet I wouldn't leave her for false assumptions." He's being reasonable here about those other problems that were implied in the previous line. He's not going to do anything (like leaving her) simply based on assumptions that could be false. This line speaks in the perspective where he does get what he wants. (side comment: a quote I know that applies here is that assumptions are the root of all F ups) "she's the one who answered the call / lifted him to his feet when his knee gave the fall" I think these two lines are the only part that try to give some kind of explanation of the girl's merits... Or why he feels the way he does about her. He might have gone through depression in the past and she brought him out of it... Saved him from it. She was the only person to understand him and be there for him and help him out of it when he needed it (It was just one girl / To hear I, hear I call) Truly a sad song and much deeper than it appears. :'( |
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