Imagine Dragons – Demons lyrics

Imagine Dragons, bravo. They've realized all the greed of the world, and they want everyone to realize it. So, the song means that they are greedy - we all are - on the inside, and he wants to protect the one he loves from greed. He wants to hide the truth from her to protect her. He wants to keep her safe from himself, and from all greedy people. But the truth is, he's trying to protect herself from not only him, but he's protecting her from everyone - including herself. And he believes the only way to "save" her is to let her go. Sorry, Imagine Dragons, but beep! Wrong. But near the end of the song, where he says "I can't escape this now, unless you show me how". He finally realized that everyone is made of greed and that no matter what he does or what he tries, he just can't protect her. So the best he can do is keep her, until she shows him if she does or does not love him. "No matter what we breathe, we are still made of greed" is exactly the definition of this song. And no, it is not "breed", it's "breathe". Hope this helped, and Imagine Dragons, I hope you keep making awesome songs!

I think this song is about a man that has darkness inside him. That darkness is a secret that he doesn't want that girl she loves to know. He wants to protect that girl from him and to those people with darkness inside. He wants to hide the truth to protect that girl but the beast, that darkness inside of him makes it possible. No matter how he want to protect that girl, there's nowhere that they can hide from the darkness. No matter what they breed (meaning: no matter where they came from), they are still made of greed. He is one of those that are made of greed that's why he said that it's his kingdom come, it's where he came from. He tried to tell the truth to the girl by her, to look in his eyes to know that it's where his demons hide, it is the darkness inside of him that hide. He wants to tell the truth and wants her to know that it's dark inside so she must not get close. It's his way to protect her. I think, in the verse 2, it means that because of him that loved her, he made a mess maybe reason for his fellow to come calling out to him. He don't want the girl down but he can't do something because he is hell bound. He has limits because of his secret. Though it's all for the protection of the girl he loves, he can't always hide the truth from her forever. He doesn't want to hide the truth now. In the bridge part, they say it's what you make but for the girl, it's up to fate. Fate is what making it, not the man. Maybe the girl finally understand that maybe they're really not for each other. The girl was hurt, the scar and the truth that they're not meant for each other is woven in her soul so she needs to let him go. The man wants to protect the light he saw in her eyes but he can't escape the darkness unless the girl will fight and give a reason for the man how to escape it so that they can be together.

This song, indeed make a story. I don't know if that's what it truly means. For me, I just shared how I understand this song. From the very first time I listened to this song, I think I already know what this song is trying to express. I learned something from this song. Hope you'll find out and learned to know what I am talking about.

This song is about being on heroin, when you start out the day you are freezing cold till you see your dealer - who is the only person you care about seeing, who seems like a saint coming to save you from being sick, and they are all about getting your gold, serving the gold, they seem golden when they finally show up, and they are stacking the gold due to the person's addiction. When a heroin addict gets high their body gets warm and their pupils turn pinpoint so you can look in their eyes and feel the heat off their body and see the demons they are hiding. "Chasing the dragon" is a reference to doing heroin so I always assumed Imagine Dragons were singing about their past struggles with drugs. All their lyrics seem like someone or all of them had an addiction or was dealing drugs in the past and ended up starting over at some point and starting a new chapter down a healthier and more successful road in life.

That he has 2 sides good and dark. He want to protect his loved ones but his dark sides will not accept it so he cannot protect loved ones and people will learn about it dark sides there a crying soul in his heart and its trapped almost woven and destroyed the soul in his heart actually is love to protect his loved ones. And he is trapped in a very torturing place like hell he doesn't want people to know about his pain.

The song is about someone who is behind a mask and all he sees is people around him going about their lives while he is in pain. Someone reaches out to him but he doesn't want the help because he believes he is to broken from the world. He uses his inner demons to control his emotions but then he realises he an be fixed. But he doesn't know how to take his mask away.

Most powerful and touching line in this song is "Unless you show me how." He wants to escape, he needs a light to outcast his darkness. He is not totally overcome by darkness because he sees hope. There's always hope for everyone in this world, and that is through the light we share to others. In other words, be the light in this world so that others can find hope through you.

I always listened to this song without paying any real attention to the lyrics until yesterday, and I am appalled at them! This is a clear declaration that this person has demons inside and instead of fighting them with the grace of God, he embraces them! Not only that but brags about them. He calls the good bad and the bad good, not too many people will understand this post but if you are one of the few, don't listen to it again and do not support this band.

I agree with several other posters - this song is from the perspective of someone who is struggling and dealing with some deep problems. However, I also think this song is an abuser's anthem: the singer is making the person he is singing to responsible for his emotional state; I'm simultaneously warning you away for your safety, but telling you that my failures are your fault for not being there. It's clearly laid out in the last verse: "Your eyes they shine so bright / I wanna save that light / I can't escape this now / Unless you show me how." The first two lines are a warning; the rest of the song indicates that in order for the subject's "light" to be saved, that person must leave the singer behind. And then the singer turns around and begs them not to go. It's manipulative, it's abusive, and it's unacceptable behaviour. If I had a friend whose partner treated them like this, I would advise them to leave.

Not certain but perhaps there has been some occult practices involved here that makes the singer know the Truth, about heaven and earth, the apocalypse, God's kingdom come. However since he sings from the negative side of knowing this truth, perhaps he fears his occult involvement (demons) puts him on the side of the unsaved sinners, and why he feels hell bound. He sings about someone whose eyes shine so bright, like they are pure and filled with the Holy Spirit, he states he can't escape his fate unless this person shows him how ---- a big "..." dot that I will fill in -- through surrender to Jesus.

A person is seeing his loved one failing in life... falling towards darkness. Loosing light, hope. He wants to shelter her. Protect her by keeping her in allusion of success but he can't help her in this way. He has to tell her about the ugly truth. He want to save her from every demon crossing her path. But he has to tell her about the ugliness. He encourage her to get up on her feet and fight her demons. He is by her side.

To me, it sounds like this song might be about post-traumatic stress disorder. He is haunted by the things he has seen and done (these are his "demons"). Even if he acts like everything is fine, the truth can be seen in his eyes. And the line, "don't get too close, it's dark inside" refers to that people with PTSD are often hard to be close to, and/or have a hard time being close to, because they have seen the darkness within themselves and others, and they cannot trust people anymore. This is just my interpretation of the song, based on my own experiences as someone with minor PTSD.
(On a side note, this song kind of reminds me of Nico di Angelo from the Heroes of Olympus book series in a way)

I know this seems unusual, but think it's about a father trying to protect his daughter form the outside world. But since he is as bad as everyone outside, he can't protect her. He thinks if he doesn't tell her about the "demons" she will grow up innocent, but then he realizes that these demons are in him and he can't protect her from himself.

I think the song tells us that we're are all humans no one is perfect we all have a dark side that we try to hide from the world we smile despite the fact that we're hurting inside, we do all that to protect the ones we love but we forget that we can not do it all alone at some point we'll need somebody to encourage us, to be there with us , someone that doesn't judge us based on your past mistakes but helps us to do better in life.

The song is about how a person is facing so many problems in life. These are the demons in which the song talks about. The chorus is just about how if the eyes are the window to the soul then the soul holds demons. Fears, problems. Things like being abused, having a family member fatally ill or dead. The demons in which people face.

I think the demons are problems of that man. It may also mean some bad qualities or something. Also the man wants to save the girl from his demons, i.e. problems/bad qualities. I just love Imagine Dragons. Their songs are sooo good!

My son is a pitcher in baseball. He told me this morning when we heard this on the radio that this is his "on the mound song". He said that if you let it, it can be sad to watch batters go down. But that the need to win, for both himself and the team, is his demon. He says he embraces his demons on the mound and smiles on the inside when a batter goes down. He's 13 years old.