Unfun fact: the song was originally called Suicide, but the record company nixed it, hence the similar sounding but nonsensical title.
It’s about one of Serj’s friends dying from an overdose and the line “I cry when angels deserve to die” is about people saying that addicts dying from overdoses (whether intentionally or accidentally) “brought it on themselves” rather than empathizing with someone who was in pain and didn’t get the help they needed in time.
Unfun fact: the song was originally called Suicide, but the record company nixed it, hence the similar sounding but nonsensical title.
It’s about one of Serj’s friends dying from an overdose and the line “I cry when angels deserve to die” is about people saying that addicts dying from overdoses (whether intentionally or accidentally) “brought it on themselves” rather than empathizing with someone who was in pain and didn’t get the help they needed in time.