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.
These are new days with old stories
So let's wash the same denial in similar patterns
Because the emotions have become mere background noise
Please take the apple from your eye
We're blinded by desire
Hey, when were you this tall?
Memory serves us not at all
"To understand me, you'll have to swallow a world."
Or maybe your words.
Either way we're up to no good, rewriting our lives way more than we should,
And only loving each other cause we've never been sure that we could
You can't control our hearts. You can't console a heart that's impossible to touch and as such
I've thrown out regret, yet may have thought about it a little too much
You find that setting standards is less like revision and more like preparation
So much like what we've heard and what we've seen.
So far from what we want and what we mean
So let's wash the same denial in similar patterns
Because the emotions have become mere background noise
Please take the apple from your eye
We're blinded by desire
Hey, when were you this tall?
Memory serves us not at all
"To understand me, you'll have to swallow a world."
Or maybe your words.
Either way we're up to no good, rewriting our lives way more than we should,
And only loving each other cause we've never been sure that we could
You can't control our hearts. You can't console a heart that's impossible to touch and as such
I've thrown out regret, yet may have thought about it a little too much
You find that setting standards is less like revision and more like preparation
So much like what we've heard and what we've seen.
So far from what we want and what we mean
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Impressive that you pulled that out of the book.