Not About Angels Lyrics

Lyric discussion by RunningWolf 

Cover art for Not About Angels lyrics by Birdy

This song is about unconditional love. We know that life is limited, but there are things in this world worth fighting for. Regardless of whether our physical lives must end, this song begs the question of if you had a chance to experience the truest love, even knowing one day that this life ends and there will be loss, would you take it - would you love completely and unconditionally? She is asking not to "give me up" and asks "what about angels" as she knows that despite the physical end, true love itself will never die, it is always with us and ever present, even when we must leave this place.

@RunningWolf beautiful thoughts ❤️

@RunningWolf Unconditional love is not a choice. You can't choose to love in this manner.. as if you can at any moment decide to 'adopt' unconditional love for another. Or suddenly come to an intellectual understanding of it's meaning and then feel it by virtue of this alone.

On the flip side, you can't choose not to as well. Once one falls - and it is definitely a fall - into this type of love it is there forever. Your words have extended this belief for me into a line of inquiry I had not thought much about. Perhaps it...

@RunningWolf Unconditional love can never die - for it is the energy of the universe and the light of the soul. The choice that lies in each of us - is to see who we already are - that we are and have always been whole. It is then that unconditional love can be fully experienced and shared, as all the limitations we place on ourselves in this world are removed and we are free. It is then that the energy of eternal love transforms within and through the soul to show us that nothing is stopping us from being...