He is asking why they should be divided when they could instead come together, pleading that Aziraphale not leave him alone. Sung from Crowley’s perspective, he is constantly pleading with Aziraphale to stay with him, for them to form their own side. Heaven and Hell are trying to divide them. DivideĪnd here we have what is clearly a love song about Crowley and Aziraphale. The Waves crashing down are also clearly referring to the forces acting against them to enact the apocalypse. The intro to the chorus asks “Oh, what would your mother say if she could see what we’re doing now?/ Oh, what would your mother say if she could hear what we talk about?” This is obviously about God, who is gendered female in Good Omens and is therefore the mother of all. Along with the idea of keeping making the same mistakes, living on earth and with humanity, as well as the belief that maybe what they are doing might be what God actually wants as she plays with the universe, well… I’m just saying.

Given the way those two deal with their head offices when it is all about to end, it seems pretty fitting. This song is about making bad decisions that they have to own up to and “take a bow,” while things go down in flames, because this might be where it ends.

Bad DecisionsĪh, here we have the song that made me realize that this album was riddled with Good Omens connections. That just screams Aziraphale and Crowley to me. The whole song is about people running away together and leaving behind their past to piece together their lives before it all falls apart. “Quarter Past Midnight” literally has the line “And you said we’d leave this place in dust/ And fall from heaven straight through hell.” I mean come on. However, there are plenty of ways in which the two media overlap in ways that I find fascinating, so let’s dive in, song by song. Obviously, I’m not saying that Good Omens was an exclusive influence on Bastille’s new album. Sure, they leave it “ambiguous” - in the same way that its “ambiguous” whether Aslan is Jesus. Michael Sheen is quoted in Bustle saying Zira is in love with Crowley. David Tennant told Refinery29 that the two were each other’s significant other. Let’s be real people, it’s not subtext, it’s text. Coincidentally, this was around the time that I got around to finally finishing up Good Omens and by virtue of consuming these two media side by side I noticed some startling connections.īefore I go any further I want to explicitly state that I am a firm shipper of Crowley and Aziraphale. Since one of those two bands is Bastille, naturally I was all over their new album like flies to honey when it dropped last week. I barely watch TV and I only listen to two bands, which means that when I do get into a series or a musical artist I tend to get obsessed to a level that some might find, quite frankly, alarming.

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