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
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
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.
"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
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.
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.
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.😢
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!
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.
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
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
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 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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.❤
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.
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.
This is my favorite song off of the "Dear Agony" album. The whole album is an absolute masterpiece (actually most of their stuff is just fantastic), you should give the whole thing a go! My 2nd favorite BB song is called "Home" which is on another stellar album called "Saturate".
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.