I've seen and met Breaking Benjamin a few times and twice when I saw them play this song live, they turned all the lights out and had us use our phone lights to shine at the stage and they said "The only light that you see is the light youre giving us" and I loved it. Hearing hundreds of people sing Give Me A Sign was incredible
"Dear Agony" is another one by Breaking Benjamin that hits the heart. If you do check it out, I suggest the re-recorded version they did with Lacey Sturm, on their compilation album "Aurora".
I think the lyrics are from the perspective of the man who died in the car crash, but he doesn't want his girlfriend/wife to die so when Death himself comes for him, Death let's him know the girl will live and he can move on to the afterlife.
fun fact: this album was the first time ben wrote sober and have softer lyrics since most of their music are pretty deep because ben was a heavy drinker which caused him major health problems and would get very depressed but he worked on getting sober and wrote songs for the album dear agony and was a huge success
So each room is a reference to the previous albums. The kid represents the first album(on the monitor), the man with the finger tattoo was the cover of the second, the being walking to each room is the 3rd album cover, and the 4th (Ben's brain scan with is the album cover) is left in the room because it's the current album. The man leaves with the being because that's Ben's darkness and addiction showing that he is healing.
This song is off their album "Dear Agony." It was the first album Ben wrote without the support of alcohol. He would use alcohol for writing music and became an alcoholic in the process. He finally became sober to write this album and his best friend (his grandfather) passed away while writing this album. I think in between his grandpa passing and staying clean he was able to create some of the most bittersweet music. I love this album so much. I used to listen to it every night I would drive to my gf's house in my teens. My favorite on the album is "Without You."
he went on a bender chugging alcohol and has migraines because of it thats what the album cover is its his mri cause they dont know whats wrong with him
Having worked in the ED/Trauma Centers and the ambulance for 18+ yrs, this song really hits home for me. I remember most of the patients who died and my very first code was a 2 year old who oulled a dry cleaning bag over their face]. Ill never forget that one!
Another one of my favorite bands. I love Breaking Benjamin! I discovered the group from the hit "The Diary of Jane" and I've been a fan ever since. I have all their albums. "Dear Agony", "Red Cold River" and "So Cold" are other heartbreaking songs.
I used to listen Breaking Benjamin like back in 2009/10 when we're studying high school. Growing old, joining military, All my friend that i listen with were all apart now in our own ways.. Miss the good old days.😢
Fun fact: the faceless being in the music video is the evil angel on the cover of the album phobia and symbolizes bens inner demons although he is a really good person
If you haven't already listened to it, I recommend the titular song to this album, Dear Agony. Either the original or the Aurora version with Lacey Strumm. Beautiful song.
I love breaking benjamin almost as much as i love you're take on this song. You can use this to feel a lot of different things or if you need a good cry. Sometimes you need to let it out especially if your like me, a man who holds everything in and then breaks down alone
I think the black tears symbolize the darkness of the soul, such as suffering, fear, and sadness, and it melts away as the person realizes the guide is their to lead them away to a new world away from their suffering.
Phobia, as a whole, is a highly underrated CD by them IMHO. And they don't put out hardly any, if at all bad stuff. But Phobia just transcends. When I was a bar manager my staff asked for that CD every night I closed. Such a great CCD to just jam, sing, and yes clean to.
Interesting take on the video, but I think you missed a little. The figure walking up and down the hall isn't Benjamin, it's the Angel of Death. He's taking away people's pain by taking them away from their bodies. In the last room, based on the opening scene, you're led to believe that there's a young man crying by the bedside of his critically injured wife/girlfriend. Based on what occurred in the two previous rooms, you now see Death visiting, and you, the viewer, think, "Oh no! He's come to take her away!" But Death isn't there for her. The young man has been dead this entire time. He didn't survive the crash. From what I understand, Benjamin wrote the song (and much of the album) about his struggles to overcome severe alcoholism. This song is about the periodic wish that Death would just come and take him away from the physical torment that was the severe symptoms of alcohol withdrawal.
Love yer channel, and reactions! Keep up the great work! Been a huge Breaking Benjamin fan since the beginning. Ben's gotten me through some tough times. I have a deep understanding and nothing but respect for thus band! I absolutely love "Down" off their last album. It a great jam that didn't get much play. But honestly I don't think Breaking Benjamin had a bad album.❤
so the black tears mean death. so basically the grim reaper came to claim the souls that died the boy, the old man. and then the boyfriend. thats why she woke up. he gave himself for her
They are suffering and, Death..(The Entity)..The representative of the peaceful transfer from life to passing... is leading them off to whatever might be next. He's the one that died. That's what I'm seeing....but I read a lot of syfi fantasy stories....... Incarnations of Immortality by Piers Anthony comes to mind.
breaking benjamin is an amazing band u should make more videos on them, some really good ones like "So Cold" "You" "Breath" "So Far Away" "Evil Angel" etc. u should make some on these!
I'm torn. I enjoy your reactions, and I appreciate the perspective you offer on so many of the songs that I love. However, might I offer an observation? Maybe I'm just feeling overly sensitive today, but it's gotten to the point where all I hear when you're speaking is your 'word whisker', where you seem to punctuate many sentences with a pronounced, "Ummm..." I don't mean to be overly critical or cause any offense. I understand you're offering an instant, "live" reaction to something and might find it difficult to 'word' properly on the fly, but I found it distracting and... that's it, really. I don't really have a solution to offer, as I don't think I've ever tried to shave off a word whisker. I'm sure someone here on YT has made a video or two about it. I'm shutting up now.
The one thing that is great about this song (and many others) is it can have different interpretations based on someone's experience and it won't be wrong. I always saw this song as being about a guy asking God to give him a sign that he shouldn't end his life because everything is either dead or dark. That second verse sounds like someone who is ready to end it. "I'll rise to fall again" meaning every time he gets out of these feelings he ends up back in them. So he's asking God to give him a sign that everything is going to be ok. That's why the end has the woman waking up as he is about to be taken out of life by the Shepard of the damned and is lead out of the darkness into the light.
Awesome reaction! 🤪 i’m glad you reacted to this, I’ve heard of Breaking Benjamin for years, but never took the time to listen to them. I’ll have to listen to more!
By far my favorite band.. all such great people and they sound as good live as they do recorded! I hate their label got them so over produced sounding in their return album but their newest one sounded like they were bringing back the original sound! They are off label now so I expect this sound to come back!
Seriously love this song but the music video is amazing as well. Love all the Easter eggs to their album covers. The guy meeting each patient isn’t Ben either it’s the “Evil Angel” on the cover of Phobia. The Evil Angel is taking the patients to the afterlife at least that’s how I interpret it.
The brain scan in the video was Benjamins, he had a drinking problem and actually was having severe neurological issues from it. This could be about his personal battle with addiction.
Man, ive been listening to this song since i bought the album on release and i have ALWAYS thought this song was written to god and was about his struggle with his faith. I thought "ill keep you alive if you show me the way" was him saying, ill keep your name alive but i need proof or "a sign". "God help me ive come undone, out of the light of the sun" I always heard as "out of the light of YOUR SON", as in jesus. Wild. Like 15 years of listening to this album and never once did i think it was about anything else. Reading all of these interpretations has been a ton of fun.
Give me a sign is underrated... Kiitos for reacting... Can u do Scavenger Project-Sign ??? Pls If u react ths song, u will get alot of subscriber and likers... Remember India is big country
I’m assuming you’ve heard it like 99% of the world but if not you have to put “Through the Fire and Flames” by DragonForce very high on your list to react to. Can’t believe you haven’t done it yet.
This song is all spoken from the point of view of the husband of the woman who got in the car accident. Basically his life is meaningless and the world is better with her in it instead of him. Everyone with the black tears in the hospital is guided to heaven by the man with the blurred face. The woman who was in the accident survived bc her husband wanted her to live so he took her place. You misinterpreted the meaning of the song and the video. Point of view of the song is, show me how I can make my loved one live. Swap spaces. Unfortunately that isn't a thing as much as we want it to be.
Hey Ray been watching since the beginning of your channel and still refuse to subscribe till you do Dayseeker - Neon Grave. Promise you won't regret it.
The album Phobia is the first album the lead singer wrote sober. he suffered with alcoholism for the longest time and once he became sober he wrote this album and all the songs reflect his struggles with the addiction,
This song hits me so hard now. I watched my brother suffer with bone cancer for about 4 years. Next month will be a year since he passed away. This song will always remind me of him and how I wish I could have done something to help him.
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I've seen and met Breaking Benjamin a few times and twice when I saw them play this song live, they turned all the lights out and had us use our phone lights to shine at the stage and they said "The only light that you see is the light youre giving us" and I loved it. Hearing hundreds of people sing Give Me A Sign was incredible
Had the same experience with them a couple times. Truly one of the most magnificent concert experiences I've ever had.
Same thing when I saw them in 2015. It was surreal to see how much light was actually generated from it.
IVE BEEN THERE FOR THAT TOO!!! Absolutely amazing experience!!
Breath live is still the best I've seen with audience. Besides electric callboy, BB has the best fans singing back
It's hard not to sing along to Breaking Benjamin.
"Dear Agony" is another one by Breaking Benjamin that hits the heart. If you do check it out, I suggest the re-recorded version they did with Lacey Sturm, on their compilation album "Aurora".
Yes!! It's such an amazing version. Lacey and Ben compliment each other well!!
Acoustic aurora version is nice, but imo the original one is much better.
The whole album hits extremely hard on the heartstrings.
I prefer the acoustic version he did by himself in his basement.
I like originals over the aurora.
I think the lyrics are from the perspective of the man who died in the car crash, but he doesn't want his girlfriend/wife to die so when Death himself comes for him, Death let's him know the girl will live and he can move on to the afterlife.
fun fact: this album was the first time ben wrote sober and have softer lyrics since most of their music are pretty deep because ben was a heavy drinker which caused him major health problems and would get very depressed but he worked on getting sober and wrote songs for the album dear agony and was a huge success
And Jasen Rauch (now in the band but wasn't back then) helped write some songs.
So each room is a reference to the previous albums. The kid represents the first album(on the monitor), the man with the finger tattoo was the cover of the second, the being walking to each room is the 3rd album cover, and the 4th (Ben's brain scan with is the album cover) is left in the room because it's the current album. The man leaves with the being because that's Ben's darkness and addiction showing that he is healing.
'Ashes of Eden' is a great ballad by them.
I concur
This song is off their album "Dear Agony." It was the first album Ben wrote without the support of alcohol. He would use alcohol for writing music and became an alcoholic in the process. He finally became sober to write this album and his best friend (his grandfather) passed away while writing this album. I think in between his grandpa passing and staying clean he was able to create some of the most bittersweet music. I love this album so much. I used to listen to it every night I would drive to my gf's house in my teens. My favorite on the album is "Without You."
he went on a bender chugging alcohol and has migraines because of it thats what the album cover is its his mri cause they dont know whats wrong with him
Having worked in the ED/Trauma Centers and the ambulance for 18+ yrs, this song really hits home for me. I remember most of the patients who died and my very first code was a 2 year old who oulled a dry cleaning bag over their face]. Ill never forget that one!
At this time in Ben's life, he was in a "Leaving Las Vegas" frame of mind. He beat it, survived and thrived and brought us all incredible music.
Another one of my favorite bands. I love Breaking Benjamin! I discovered the group from the hit "The Diary of Jane" and I've been a fan ever since. I have all their albums. "Dear Agony", "Red Cold River" and "So Cold" are other heartbreaking songs.
I used to listen Breaking Benjamin like back in 2009/10 when we're studying high school. Growing old, joining military, All my friend that i listen with were all apart now in our own ways.. Miss the good old days.😢
The 'Red Cold River', 'Torn In Two', and 'Tourniquet' trilogy is definitely worth a watch/listen!
Fun fact: the faceless being in the music video is the evil angel on the cover of the album phobia and symbolizes bens inner demons although he is a really good person
"no longer the lost, no longer the same"
Favorite line right there
Breathe is one that I am very attached to by them.
You should react to Ashes of Eden by them next.
If you haven't already listened to it, I recommend the titular song to this album, Dear Agony. Either the original or the Aurora version with Lacey Strumm. Beautiful song.
I love breaking benjamin almost as much as i love you're take on this song. You can use this to feel a lot of different things or if you need a good cry. Sometimes you need to let it out especially if your like me, a man who holds everything in and then breaks down alone
Saw them in 2019 and it's was the best live show I've seen. BB is one of the Best modern rock bands imo.
Good thing I started listening to this album more and more. Great song.
Yeah this is what i want, next do reaction to "breath"
I think the black tears symbolize the darkness of the soul, such as suffering, fear, and sadness, and it melts away as the person realizes the guide is their to lead them away to a new world away from their suffering.
Phobia, as a whole, is a highly underrated CD by them IMHO. And they don't put out hardly any, if at all bad stuff. But Phobia just transcends. When I was a bar manager my staff asked for that CD every night I closed. Such a great CCD to just jam, sing, and yes clean to.
Phobia might just edge out We Are Not Alone as my favorite album of all time.
This band helped me the most in my tough times.
Interesting take on the video, but I think you missed a little.
The figure walking up and down the hall isn't Benjamin, it's the Angel of Death. He's taking away people's pain by taking them away from their bodies.
In the last room, based on the opening scene, you're led to believe that there's a young man crying by the bedside of his critically injured wife/girlfriend. Based on what occurred in the two previous rooms, you now see Death visiting, and you, the viewer, think, "Oh no! He's come to take her away!" But Death isn't there for her. The young man has been dead this entire time. He didn't survive the crash.
From what I understand, Benjamin wrote the song (and much of the album) about his struggles to overcome severe alcoholism. This song is about the periodic wish that Death would just come and take him away from the physical torment that was the severe symptoms of alcohol withdrawal.
Breaking Benjamin is one of my favourite bands of all time it would be cool if you listen to ashes of Eden that song is awesome
Great song, and great review of one of my favorite bands. Lifelong subscriber from now on.
"The child is a little sus"
Me: no the child is a little dead af"
Breaking Benjamin is criminally underrated
Please please please do more of BB!! They are so awesome and have plenty of great songs! I promise you won't be disappointed 😉
You guys will LOVE how hughie & starlight's relationship developed in the following seasons
Love yer channel, and reactions! Keep up the great work! Been a huge Breaking Benjamin fan since the beginning. Ben's gotten me through some tough times. I have a deep understanding and nothing but respect for thus band! I absolutely love "Down" off their last album. It a great jam that didn't get much play. But honestly I don't think Breaking Benjamin had a bad album.❤
Holy shit I didn’t know there was a music video 😢
Sí alguien me podria resumir lo qué ella dijo,en español se lo agradecería mucho no entiendo inglés:(
so the black tears mean death. so basically the grim reaper came to claim the souls that died the boy, the old man. and then the boyfriend. thats why she woke up. he gave himself for her
That last scene looks like God came to lead him home and healed her so he was able to let go and move on.
YES!!! More Breaking Benjamin
One of my favorite songs..
They have so many good songs👍👍
The tears are the mark of death, death as comforting. Is not as hopeful as you think.
They are suffering and, Death..(The Entity)..The representative of the peaceful transfer from life to passing... is leading them off to whatever might be next. He's the one that died. That's what I'm seeing....but I read a lot of syfi fantasy stories....... Incarnations of Immortality by Piers Anthony comes to mind.
That's my take as well. Love the Incarnations of Immortality...On a Pale Horse is my favorite, of course, but the others are good as well.
breaking benjamin is an amazing band u should make more videos on them, some really good ones like "So Cold" "You" "Breath" "So Far Away" "Evil Angel" etc. u should make some on these!
BB is just a awesome live. Talked to Ben and he's super sweet!
I'm torn. I enjoy your reactions, and I appreciate the perspective you offer on so many of the songs that I love. However, might I offer an observation? Maybe I'm just feeling overly sensitive today, but it's gotten to the point where all I hear when you're speaking is your 'word whisker', where you seem to punctuate many sentences with a pronounced, "Ummm..." I don't mean to be overly critical or cause any offense. I understand you're offering an instant, "live" reaction to something and might find it difficult to 'word' properly on the fly, but I found it distracting and... that's it, really. I don't really have a solution to offer, as I don't think I've ever tried to shave off a word whisker. I'm sure someone here on YT has made a video or two about it. I'm shutting up now.
Breaking Benjamin has some good songs. Blow Me Away (which has 2 versions) is a must hear.
The one thing that is great about this song (and many others) is it can have different interpretations based on someone's experience and it won't be wrong. I always saw this song as being about a guy asking God to give him a sign that he shouldn't end his life because everything is either dead or dark. That second verse sounds like someone who is ready to end it. "I'll rise to fall again" meaning every time he gets out of these feelings he ends up back in them. So he's asking God to give him a sign that everything is going to be ok. That's why the end has the woman waking up as he is about to be taken out of life by the Shepard of the damned and is lead out of the darkness into the light.
react Waiting On The Sky To Change ft. Breaking Benjamin
I saw them when they toured with distrubed a few years ago. If you ever have a chance to see breaking benjamin live see em. It will be worth it.
Maybe some day:
Black Label Society - In This River (live doom troopin) 🔥 🔥 🔥 you wont regreat!!!
Awesome reaction! 🤪 i’m glad you reacted to this, I’ve heard of Breaking Benjamin for years, but never took the time to listen to them. I’ll have to listen to more!
Please do more Deftones
By far my favorite band.. all such great people and they sound as good live as they do recorded! I hate their label got them so over produced sounding in their return album but their newest one sounded like they were bringing back the original sound! They are off label now so I expect this sound to come back!
Dear Agony should definitely be next if you liked this.
I dont care about the reactions. You are so beautiful.
you should definitely react to dear agony aurora version by them!
Seriously love this song but the music video is amazing as well. Love all the Easter eggs to their album covers. The guy meeting each patient isn’t Ben either it’s the “Evil Angel” on the cover of Phobia. The Evil Angel is taking the patients to the afterlife at least that’s how I interpret it.
The brain scan in the video was Benjamins, he had a drinking problem and actually was having severe neurological issues from it. This could be about his personal battle with addiction.
Man, ive been listening to this song since i bought the album on release and i have ALWAYS thought this song was written to god and was about his struggle with his faith.
I thought "ill keep you alive if you show me the way" was him saying, ill keep your name alive but i need proof or "a sign".
"God help me ive come undone, out of the light of the sun" I always heard as "out of the light of YOUR SON", as in jesus.
Wild. Like 15 years of listening to this album and never once did i think it was about anything else.
Reading all of these interpretations has been a ton of fun.
Give me a sign is underrated... Kiitos for reacting...
Can u do Scavenger Project-Sign ??? Pls
If u react ths song, u will get alot of subscriber and likers... Remember India is big country
I’m assuming you’ve heard it like 99% of the world but if not you have to put “Through the Fire and Flames” by DragonForce very high on your list to react to. Can’t believe you haven’t done it yet.
This song is all spoken from the point of view of the husband of the woman who got in the car accident. Basically his life is meaningless and the world is better with her in it instead of him. Everyone with the black tears in the hospital is guided to heaven by the man with the blurred face. The woman who was in the accident survived bc her husband wanted her to live so he took her place. You misinterpreted the meaning of the song and the video. Point of view of the song is, show me how I can make my loved one live. Swap spaces. Unfortunately that isn't a thing as much as we want it to be.
Hey Ray been watching since the beginning of your channel and still refuse to subscribe till you do Dayseeker - Neon Grave. Promise you won't regret it.
Bad Omens - Artificial Suicide live Concrete Forever Las Vegas
Song is about Gods abandonment. He’s asking God to give him a sign in his state of hopelessness.
hello you are very pretty
I like your videos, greetings from Argentina.
React to Breath! of them!
Good songs that have a edge with a little harsh vocals I recommend "Crawl" and "Blood".
Breaking Benjamin is my favorite band
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This song kinda reminds me of that simple plan song i don't remember what's it called
Ya gotta check out 'Chimp Mosh Pit' by AVATAR one day :)
Hi, can you review system of a down live please🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻, any song
they died and the death angel came to take them to the heaven.
BB No Games live
You need to do What Lies Beneath by them on the same album
Pls react Ocean Ate Alaska - Endless hollow
You are soo beautiful... goodness Me 😮
More breaking Benjamin! Breath?
The black tears represent death.
He’s talking to God.
More Breaking Benjamin please
Reaction Silverstein My Heroin
Please react to Motograter -Down
Try to lessen starsets band👍👍
Eversince his songs helped me deal with bad times when I was younger I can only describe Breaking Benjamin as "he knows what it feels like"
Great song!! They trim down some of the song for the music video, but you should still check out the full song if you haven’t already!
05:51 he IS the death
I love this song so much... i can't explain why... it make me feel so... i just love it
He's the grim reaper
Hollow is a good one too
I love it! Do more Breaking Benjamin!
Highly recommend doing Down off of the album Ember. Ben plays with his range a lot in that song!
The album Phobia is the first album the lead singer wrote sober. he suffered with alcoholism for the longest time and once he became sober he wrote this album and all the songs reflect his struggles with the addiction,
Breaking Benjamin doesn't have any bad songs. This is a rabbit hole to go down for sure.
Whoa
So love Ben Burnley and Breaking benjamin ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Forget it = eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (movie)
Late to comment old age laziness lol😂😂 awesome react as usual Racheal ❤
This song hits me so hard now. I watched my brother suffer with bone cancer for about 4 years. Next month will be a year since he passed away. This song will always remind me of him and how I wish I could have done something to help him.
im sorry to hear about your loss I hope you can find peace in life and god bless 🙏
in this video, Ben is the angle of death helping their souls move on
Ya no they're dead girl. That's death leading them to the afterlife lol