Faith
"I write quite a few songs where the 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, and like you said, in women. Faith is a weird thing. It's, in a sense, it is all about waiting. It's not actually about getting anything. Faith is about the wait because once you get something there's no need anymore. And so a lot of having faith is the willingness to throw yourself on a fence and hang there for a while. That's a very difficult and bitter thing.
"In this song, the...I keep saying the main character...I...'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 to do it or not to do it as well. And it's called 'Angels of the Silences'."
-Adam Duritz of Counting Crows
"In this song, the...I keep saying the main character...I...'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 to do it or not to do it as well. And it's called 'Angels of the Silences'."
-Adam Duritz of Counting Crows