Mike Ness wrote the song after his grandmother passed away. It isn't really so much about her as it is about how no matter what you believe, you'll never have definitive answers until you die yourself.
"...life and death don't mean a thing
Till the angels sing." - you can believe whatever you'd like, but nothing really has any meaning for anyone until "the angels sing" - you die. Answers aren't really available until then.
Mike says he hopes he was everything he was supposed to be - he hopes so because he doesn't know exactly what he was supposed to be and nothing has any real, tangible meaning until after death. There's much that even people of faith don't understand - prisoners on death row pray, junkies cry for love but can't get any, and it's cold on the street when you're all alone. No one can really understand the why until "the angels sing".
Mike Ness wrote the song after his grandmother passed away. It isn't really so much about her as it is about how no matter what you believe, you'll never have definitive answers until you die yourself.
"...life and death don't mean a thing Till the angels sing." - you can believe whatever you'd like, but nothing really has any meaning for anyone until "the angels sing" - you die. Answers aren't really available until then.
Mike says he hopes he was everything he was supposed to be - he hopes so because he doesn't know exactly what he was supposed to be and nothing has any real, tangible meaning until after death. There's much that even people of faith don't understand - prisoners on death row pray, junkies cry for love but can't get any, and it's cold on the street when you're all alone. No one can really understand the why until "the angels sing".