The song may be about drug addiction and suicide but it is because you want the pain to end. You reach the point you will do anything to find peace. I always found reasons to not feel good enough.When you are filled with that much pain, you do need some distraction because the memories 'seep up.' You want your mind to be empty and your soul weightless. I kept getting involved with people who only reinforced my sense of worthlessness. It took years of work and therapy to realize I was more than my abuse. For me, it speaks to those who have suffered from whatever cause, and often drug abuse is only a symptom. The bottom line is there are countless ways to interpret the song but it's simply beautiful. But this song continues to give me hope that there are truly angels on earth to relieve our suffering, no matter what our misery happens to be.

I had an angel come into my life and lift me out of the hell I was in, if only for a short time. I could go on and on with the parallels of my life and the song, so whether you believe it is about an overdose or not, the words of the song are so apropos in many, many situations. I longed for the arms of an angel, a person to love me unconditionally, someone to take me away from the darkness of abuse and I did indeed feel that I would never escape from the endlessness and fear. I longed to be empty, no thoughts of pain, weightless without the hold of the abuser and I would pray for peace every night.

But as an abuse victim, when people push you down constantly, there is always a reason to feel not good enough, and the end of the day is always the worst when you have to go back to your abuser.Īgain, as an abuse victim, I needed a distraction, longed for a beautiful release and memories of abuse seeped from my veins. Everyone suffers in different ways and this song can be applicable to all of them.įor me, the first verse as written above applied to me in a relationship, waiting for that second chance, a break that would make it okay.

I have never been a drug or alcohol addict, but an abuse victim. I had heard the song prior to seeing the movie 'City of Angels' and loved it, but in the context of the movie, everything about the song seemed to apply to me. I have read all the posts here and the many different interpretations on the meaning of the lyrics. This glorious sadness that brings me to my knees It's easier to believe in this sweet madness oh There's vultures and thieves at your back

Sarah mclachlan angels lyrics