So this has been.my favorite song of OTEP's since it came out in 2004, and I always thought it was a song about a child's narrative of suffering in an abusive Christian home. But now that I am revisiting the lyrics, I am seeing something totally new.
This song could be gospel of John but from the perspective of Jesus.
Jesus was NOT having a good time up to and during the crucifixion. Everyone in the known world at the time looked to him with fear, admiration or disgust and he was constantly being asked questions. He spoke in "verses, prophesies and curses". He had made an enemy of the state, and believed the world was increasingly wicked and fallen from grace, or that he was in the "mouth of madness".
The spine of atlas is the structure that allows the titan to hold the world up. Jesus challenged the state and in doing so became a celebrated resistance figure. It also made him public enemy #1.
All of this happened simply because he was doing his thing, not because of any agenda he had or strategy.
And then he gets scourged (storm of thorns)
There are some plot holes here but I think it's an interesting interpretation.
When all my demons set their sails
and my mind is riding the last train
Down a one-way track to the final station
Destination Devastation
A thousand demons at my door
screaming at my crumbling walls
My river's bleeding, my fields are burning
My world has stopped turning
I will be your lithium
and I'll be your lover
Give me something for my mind
something for the pain inside
A remedy, a cure for life
An elixir for this manica of mine
Give me what I'm deep in need of
a sanctuary beyond this cruel world
A peerless cure-all to recover
Like lithium and a lover...
and my mind is riding the last train
Down a one-way track to the final station
Destination Devastation
A thousand demons at my door
screaming at my crumbling walls
My river's bleeding, my fields are burning
My world has stopped turning
I will be your lithium
and I'll be your lover
Give me something for my mind
something for the pain inside
A remedy, a cure for life
An elixir for this manica of mine
Give me what I'm deep in need of
a sanctuary beyond this cruel world
A peerless cure-all to recover
Like lithium and a lover...
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Lithium and a Lover Lyrics as written by Morten Veland
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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weatherlight has it nailed on the drug lithium. i think, though, that the reason it is used in the title, along with the word lover, is simply for the alliteration effect.
'lithium and a lover' sounds a lot better than...
'lexapro and an AA meeting'