10 Songs You Didn't Know Were About Drugs

In the golden age of nu metal, no band was as cutting edge as System of a Down. At a time when most bands were wearing cargo shorts and complaining about life growing up in the suburbs, these guys were making bold political statements on humankind on albums like Toxicity and Mesmerize. "Chop Suey!" seems like another one of those indoctrinations on the surface, but the band have said that the inspiration came from the dark side of drug use.

With a lyric sheet that seems to fly by your eardrums at 30 words per second, many people probably assumed the band's narcotic intake may have inspired the delivery, but what Serj Tankian is talking about is the construction of one's character when it comes to using drugs. Though many took the lyric "I cry when angels deserve to die" to mean soldiers going off to war, the band have applied this to people who are to quick to judge drug addicts rather than extending a hand to save them from their drug-fueled oblivion.

In that respect, the aforementioned angel should not be condemned to die but nurtured so they can continue to spread their light with the rest of the world. It's easy to ride off musicians as nothing but a lucky bunch of addicts, but System show that it's much harder to forgive than to blame.