Angels of Silences Meaning

Angels of the Silences is one of the songs I originally overlooked on the album Recovering the Satellites. At the time, I really liked the Counting Crows more melancholy songs and AotS is fast paced, fast moving song.

However, when I went back and listens to the lyrics, the songs really works. It has a message that can be sung in a slow paced self reflective song or a fast beat semi-angry rant.

From Adam Duritz and the Counting Crows Storytellers on June 7, 1999:

"I write quite a few songs where the sort of issue is faith, having faith, keeping faith

and this song in particular is about the difficulty in having faith in things

and finding things to have faith in, in yourself, in God, in like he said, in a woman

Faith is a weird thing, it in a sense it is all about waiting

It's not actually about getting anything, you know

Faith is about the wait because once you get something there is no need anymore

and so a lot about faith is just the willingness to sort of throw yourself on a fence 

and hang there for a while

That's a very difficult and bitter thing, you know

In this song the, I keep saying the main character, 'I'

I said, 'All my sins, I would pay for them if I could come back to you' 

It's not just about finding things to believe in

It's about wanting to be able to believe in anything too

And it's about all the voices that get inside your head 

and whisper for you to do it or not to do it as well

And it's called "Angels of the Silences"