Angel Down meaning?

[GawdGa 1,399]

I was listening to Angel Down in the car and it kinda gives me Black Lives Matter vibes

 

Shots were fired on the street
By the church where we used to meet
Angel down, angel down
But the people just stood around

 

I'm a believer, it's chaos
Where are our leaders? Oh, oh, oh

 

Doesn't everyone belong
In the arms of the sacred
Why do we pretend we're wrong?
Has our young courage faded?

 

am i reaching? 

[Morphine Prince 104,944]

It's about shootings. Someone on Twitter who said they were at the listening party said it was about Trayvon Martin and gun violence in general. 

You can even interpret it as something about Orlando, terror attacks, etc.

Such a beautifully haunting song, it's becoming one of my favorite Gaga songs. 

[Nebraska 404]

I just can't... Give this ****ing album all the Grammys NOW.

Angel Down is too powerful. It's growing on me, it was my least favorite, and now I'm seeing it's hugeness... No... This album IS A BIBLE.

[GawdGa 1,399]

Just now, Morphine Prince said:

It's about shootings. Someone on Twitter who said they were at the listening party said it was about Trayvon Martin and gun violence in general. 

You can even interpret it as something about Orlando, terror attacks, etc.

Such a beautifully haunting song, it's becoming one of my favorite Gaga songs. 

oh wow, thats beautiful 

[REALITY 75,880]

You're not reaching. It's definitely about the chaos in the world, and how (generally) people aren't really willing to do much. I too got reminded specifically of the Black Lives Movement when she sang the line "Shots were fired on the street".

The song has such a strong and pertinent meaning, especially in today's times. Honestly one of my favorite ballads from her.

[doppelganger 3,928]

I haven't heard the full song but it needs to be a single (along with MR). The message is universal. 

[Morphine Prince 104,944]

3 minutes ago, GawdGa said:

oh wow, thats beautiful 

Also, "Angel Down" sounds like a clear reference to innocent people dying. 

"I'd rather save an angel down" 

Also reminds me about the shooting of people in that church in Charlotte last year around the time she must have worked on this with RedOne. "Shots were fired on the street by that church where we used to meet" 

[Gardevoir 9,812]

It's not solely about shootings. It's overall about being lost in today's world. Everything that is happening is terrible, shootings, terroristic attacks, religious people blinded by religion and making judgment over other innocent people.  

Shots were fired on the street
By the church where we used to meet
Angel down, angel down
But the people just stood around

I interpret it as "something really bad happened there, in the place we thought is safe (church) and people did literally nothing to help, they just stood around watching the whole tragedy.

 

 

It's really beautiful song. 

[Morphine Prince 104,944]

Just now, Emigrante said:

It's not solely about shootings. It's overall about being lost in today's world. Everything that is happening is terrible, shootings, terroristic attacks, religious people blinded by religion and making judgment over other innocent people.  

Shots were fired on the street
By the church where we used to meet
Angel down, angel down
But the people just stood around

I interpret it as "something really bad happened there, in the place we thought is safe (church) and people did literally nothing to help, they just stood around watching the whole tragedy.

 

 

It's really beautiful song. 

Oh, wow yeah. 

I had not interpreted this way! 

Also in the beginning she makes clear she's talking about our current time "I confess I am lost in the age of the social" 

[malazam 15,710]

It's about our selfish society and all the crap that leads to.....

[Titan 632]

[Lextyr97 19,708]

Definitely agree that it's about today's shooting. Im supposed to be asleep but this damn site is distracting me, so I'm just going to mention that this song, well the whole album in general, is very well written. I love it.

[sillynate 6,170]

I see the gun violence theme in there, but a few lines make me think it's about her fall during the ARTPOP era. Maybe when she started writing it was about ARTPOP, but as it evolved or whatever it became something that I think is more personal and relatable.

[Edonis 28,950]

5 minutes ago, sillynate said:

I see the gun violence theme in there, but a few lines make me think it's about her fall during the ARTPOP era. Maybe when she started writing it was about ARTPOP, but as it evolved or whatever it became something that I think is more personal and relatable.

I think there are aspects of that sprinkled throughout but I think it's mainly a general statement that people don't look when others are down. They become desensitized on human issues.

[zakariah 11,712]

5 minutes ago, sillynate said:

I see the gun violence theme in there, but a few lines make me think it's about her fall during the ARTPOP era. Maybe when she started writing it was about ARTPOP, but as it evolved or whatever it became something that I think is more personal and relatable.

I think it has a double meaning, like most of her songs, so u cld be right