Evil In A Closet Lyrics - In Flames

People add their own experiences to the lyrics and get away from the fact that it is just about a girl he has fallen in love with but she is atached to another person, he keeps it a secret because of this. The "Yell at me, I want to be your light that shines" is a bit of an odd one, might be that the girl argues with the boyfriend-husband a lot and he finds that if this was him she was yelling at he'd still be happy, but then the "But my ground is shaking and I might fall" won't make much sence. that may mean that he might not be able to handle arguing with her and it would hit him a little hard, thats an odd part to the song, In Flames should explain shit in the CD sleeves.
But we all know what the "I wish that I could say... I wish that I could be your evil... your evil in a closet" means, he wants to tell her that if she even wants to cheat on the boyfriend -husband that he's up for it, the old ohh no my husbund is home, hide in the closet.
not talking from personal experiances.
But everyone has fallen in love with an unsingle person at some stage, probably why this song hits so many people where it hurts.

I think it's a love song .
He has a girl that makes him feel above all else. He wants to make her his.
When they are not together he doubts that he has what she wants from him. He sinks when he is not with her.. His doubts lead looking for hope.
His thinking about her when she is not there puts her on a pedestal. He thinks she is getting much more out of life when they are not together. But all he wants is to be her everything...strong enough for all her emotions.

First review ever. Draft probably needed.

this is a love song. its about a person who loves a person with a screwed up past. even tho the person loves its hard for that person to trust because of the baggage. im in a relationship like that and its hard. because no matter how much i love her i feel like i dont know all of her evils. and i want to be a part of all of her. even the evil. but if i never know all of it then i feel like its all a lie and thats what hurts the most.
maybe one day i know it all, but for now i hurt...

yet another great in flames song, but i find its more about somebody going through addiction, "i can never attract tomorow" when you get high theres never tomorow its right now at this moment, "i sink in waters deep, your prescense keeps me floating, far from depths were secrets lie" as in depression or problems whatever the fuck you want to call it is covered up by a drug/alcohol so you dont need to think about the shit you dont want to, but again this is my opinion.. sorry bad english i am french

i think that this song is an awesome song... maybe one of their best. i fell in love with this girl 5 years ago and when she knew i was in-love with her.. she didnt give a f*** about me, but i just couldnt stand her beauty and well-being of a goddess. in the first 3 years i was deep into it even tho she had a boyfriend. after 3 damn years i tried to get over her, and after a really long time i managed to do so. yet, every time she i get a glimse of her, on the street or whatever i just feel like emptiness, everytime little part of me die inside, cuz i feel we could have been much more, i could have got much more and so does she. now, im just confused... and when i read the lyrics, i just said : "its exactly what i feel, no less". the "evil in a closet" sentence is what i felt when i realized i have no chance with her... a deep hatred towards her, but not out of anger or shame, but out of love, i felt like i really hate for not letting me give her, or at least try to give her, the feeling that she gave me.... omfg, love is a complicated feeling...

I can completely relate to this song. I've met someone I connect with on a level that surpasses anything I've ever known; but to be together...doesn't seem possible without others getting hurt. I think Anonymous 3/21/11 got it right.

In my opinion I feel the song is about a person who really has a strong connection to someone, maybe even loves them, but can't find a way to make things work because of a bad situation in life and the only way to be with this person is to escape away from life by being "in a closet with this person" away from the troubles of life

I think it's about homosexuality...
Evil in a closet looks like its wrong to be gay so we could stay together in the closet.
If I read the lyrics well it's about a special person who can't be reached.
Maybe in this song it's about a boy who loves another boy but he can't get close to him because the other one doesn't like him.

Maybe it's a bit far because nobody of in flames is gay.... But I think these guys are very well knowing persons and it could be a song for their homosexual fans.

All of you saying girlfriend left you simply make an emo song out of it, which it is not.

All in Flames songs are about hope, not kill myself life sucks.

The song is about an endless search for escape out of bad situation. You don't want to be where you are now, but you don't see how to escape, got it?

Read the second stanza:

He is sinking deep where secrets lie. But that "you" kept him floating, so he is neither on the surface, nor deep where secrets lie.

Now he needs an option, a reason and hope to escape it. This conflict of impossibility to escape explodes (music gets heavy).

Now meaning of many things change, but not the situation. He finally decides to be with whoever is "you", but that is only possibile at the same time being "evil", so, not a happy end, but an successfull escape. Being evil in the closet and being close to "you" is better than floating somewhere being not with "you".

excellent song !!!
first ballad (next to Metathor)for many years ...
fear from darkness and loneliness, that fills your soul and no way out for light...
about silly mistakes,sickness and undisclosed desires ...
but i could be wrong ...

Hey everybody, I really like the way In Flames write their lyrics, from my oppinion everyone can find himself or herself in their songs. They are really awesome, and as someone om here sat already, everyone will see different things in this song, just like love or hatred, running away from something etc. But I guess this is the way Anders and his guys wants it to be this way. Don`t you think so, too?

Everyone that doesnt care about how deep in flames are, has no meaning in life,

the band has the most awsum feel about it and i love the guitaring,drums,the voice, but mostly the lyrics, always wanting to figure out what the lyrics mean,

in flames are the greatest,deepest band ever, love them.

I totaly agree with 'tehepix hax0r'. I've recently fell in love with the girl of my dreams (people told me stuff like 'move on' or 'get over it, you'll find you're soulmate' but this is the perfect girl to me) but she already got a boyfriend and that eats me. It's really killing me but I can't stand to see her cry, meaning there is nothing I can do. Even if I could, there is no way I would drive them appart, sure he doesn't deserve her, but on the other hand, I doubt I deserve her. The only wis that I have is that one day we'll be together and happy. I've started to reconize my emotions in the lyrics of In Flames songs, and that helps, on some way. I also feel like I could write a bunch of deep lyrics like these right now, we'll see, maybe I will. Anyway, this song is great, tells me exacly how I feel.

I realy don't think it's a love song,if itwasIwouldn't listan that piece of shit. IT2s more about hatredy and the desire to run away, tu be the evil ina closet or to hvae one, it'i make you feel better and prevent you to suicide or to kill somebody.( i wish they could prevent addiction to drugs but to see more evils in a closet you have to take one more shot...)

I read almost all of the reviews and i will not tell you if you have right or not. I believe that everyone finds something in this song. The lyrics, the melody.... Personally i feel that this song talks about our souls. Its not about loving a girlfriend/boyfriend but our self. Is our soul in love with our mind? Are we what we really are? Or we live fake as "THEY" told us to live... We have to discover our selfs in this lifetime. Collect some stars to sign for you and start today there are only a few...(from another song of (In Flames). We have to live our lifes now by discovering the truth inside our souls. The sign of times my friends....