So beautifully written, so much emotion in it; she is his angel and yet she will not endow him with her attention. Instead, he marries himself to his pain and is forced to live a life which is, quite frankly, dismal and depressing.
I hate to say it, but as much as I theorize it could be about Jeremy's struggle with God, I see the angel as being a girl. The man in the song is madly in love with her, but she will not give him the time of day. But, instead of being smart and getting over her, he falls deeper, devoting all of himself to her. She is like an angel; a thing that he cherishes. He screams in desperation for her to just let him feel one moment of happiness.
This song, to put it bluntly, is a masterpiece.
So beautifully written, so much emotion in it; she is his angel and yet she will not endow him with her attention. Instead, he marries himself to his pain and is forced to live a life which is, quite frankly, dismal and depressing.
I hate to say it, but as much as I theorize it could be about Jeremy's struggle with God, I see the angel as being a girl. The man in the song is madly in love with her, but she will not give him the time of day. But, instead of being smart and getting over her, he falls deeper, devoting all of himself to her. She is like an angel; a thing that he cherishes. He screams in desperation for her to just let him feel one moment of happiness.
But, in the end, discomfort comes clearly.