Looking For Angels

Skillet's "Looking For Angels" opens with a restless search: people passing by, walking the streets, all scanning the crowd for something more. The verses catalog a world that has grown hard — faces filled with anger, bigotry and misunderstanding, hungry nations, homeless people scrounging for needles, teen suicide on the rise, and children's innocence stolen online. Against this backdrop the chorus becomes a pilgrimage, a crusade for hope, with the repeated confession that we need more than this. The song refuses to stay in despair, though; it turns toward action. One verse describes sending a check to feed kids the singer will never meet, then asks plainly what the listener will do to make a difference. The answer comes in small, human gestures — a touch, a smile, turning the other cheek, praying for enemies, humbling yourself — and in the closing image of angels showing up in the strangest of places, even amid the most painful faces. The lyrics treat love as a light and a salvation a generation might use to turn a nation back, and they locate the search for angels not in some distant heaven but in the ordinary choices people make toward one another.