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Destroying Angel Lyrics
I know you know my head's not in this now
Nothin' you can keep, so keep me down
Like the stones beneath the water that you walk on
to be taller
And the hands you stabbed together, 'cos you prayed
you'd wait forever
Just another fragile angel heart,
fallin' down on lead wings, torn apart
And the words beneath my skin,
the ink that you put in
Destroying all the things you left around
'cos I'm earthbound, coming down,
come down, come down...
...come around...
And what you have the nerve to call a friend
is starved of all the sense to make amends
'cos I'm the glass you break to touch,
but you never want me much
like the view across the water from your shoes,
and two feet smaller
I know it doesn't pay to be this hurt...
...falling off the morning, getting worse...
And the words beneath my skin,
the ink that you put in
Destroying all the things you left around
'cos I'm earthbound, coming down,
come down, come down...
...come around...
'cos I'm down... I'm down...
'cos I'm down... I'm down...
'cos I'm down...
me, I'm down...
me, I'm down...
... I'm down...
Nothin' you can keep, so keep me down
Like the stones beneath the water that you walk on
to be taller
And the hands you stabbed together, 'cos you prayed
you'd wait forever
Just another fragile angel heart,
fallin' down on lead wings, torn apart
the ink that you put in
Destroying all the things you left around
'cos I'm earthbound, coming down,
come down, come down...
...come around...
is starved of all the sense to make amends
'cos I'm the glass you break to touch,
but you never want me much
like the view across the water from your shoes,
and two feet smaller
...falling off the morning, getting worse...
the ink that you put in
Destroying all the things you left around
'cos I'm earthbound, coming down,
come down, come down...
...come around...
'cos I'm down... I'm down...
'cos I'm down...
me, I'm down...
me, I'm down...
... I'm down...
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I think they left a lot of room for interpretation. So parts sound like an abusive relationship. "I'm the glass you break to touch, but you never want me much." And people have already mentioned the drug implications. Its just a great song all around anyway.
I love this song. I'm unsure the intended meaning though.
Wow I can't believe there are so few comments in here. Sneaker Pimps are one of my favorite bands and Destroying Angel is probably my favorite song from them. It is so dark and I am pretty sure that this song is about heroin. It being the 'words beneath my skin...the ink that you put in' and it destroys everything and when the trip is over you are earthbound coming down.
I'm not sure if it's heroin exactly, but atleast some drugs... according to dictionary.com, destroying angel is a mushroom with halucigenic properties.
They will kill you. That is a deadly shroom dude. Seriously ... its not something you want to mess around with. It is commonly mistaken for puffball shrooms, and they kill you if you have made that mistake.
They will kill you. That is a deadly shroom dude. Seriously ... its not something you want to mess around with. It is commonly mistaken for puffball shrooms, and they kill you if you have made that mistake.
Man... All their songs are about drugs hahahah. Its trip hop... and u should be on drugs when u listen to it :p
I fail to see any drug implications in this song.. At the end of the song there are a few more lines of him repeating himself. " Cus Im done" " Im done" "Cus Im done" "Im done." "Cus im done" "Me im done" "Me im done" "Im done."
Sounds alot like a breakup song to me.
to the last comment.. i'm glad you have such an innocent potrayal of this song, but i honestly believe it's about drugs - as a lot of their other songs are.
i think he's talking about quiting the drug with the 'i'm done'.. although on the live video it sounds like he's saying 'i'm down, god help me, i'm down'.
What drug are you talking about? You dont leave anything to go off of. I'm glad you have such a narrow minded spectrum on this bands lyrical capabilities.
What drug are you talking about? You dont leave anything to go off of. I'm glad you have such a narrow minded spectrum on this bands lyrical capabilities.
"And the words beneath my skin, the ink that you put in Destroying all the things you left around 'cos I'm earthbound, coming down, come down, come down... ...come around..."
"And the words beneath my skin, the ink that you put in Destroying all the things you left around 'cos I'm earthbound, coming down, come down, come down... ...come around..."
For one, a lot of the words are wrong, with sentences left incomplete. Corrected lyrics:
Well, that was a misfire. Accidental double-post, and the corrected lyrics placed where they belong -- in a report.
The song strikes me as one about abuse, although that meaning is a hell of a lot less clear with this portrayal of the song in text. Speaking as someone who has -been- in a nightmarish abusive situation... a lot of this works for it. The false-messiah imagery, ("The hands you stabbed together 'cos you prayed 'You'd wait forever'...", "Like the stones beneath the water that you walked on, to be taller...") the idea of being branded as an object ("And the words beneath my skin! The ink that YOU put in!"), and with luck, the eventual freedom, and the spiral of pain it brings. ("Destroying all the things you left around/'cos I'm earthbound, coming down...") Drug imagery is only there if you're actively looking for it.
I wasn't looking for drug imagery in particular, and I came out of the listening to this thinking it was about Heroin.