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.
No thanks
No more
No love
I'm done
I've had enough
You're going off with her and I wish I was
But there's another can be just because
All right
Be on your way
The kindest thing to say is not that you have fallen for me
Say you'll come back to my arms again someday
Oh
Baby write some words about how you can't shut me out
How you must find a way to see me one more time
One more time
And please call up all your friends and tell them it can't end
You don't know what you'd do if you lost her and lost me too
That's fine
That's good
That's nice
I understand the price
The cost of craving dark instead of light
I flip a coin to see if you still care tonight
My blood
My hand
My soul
I've thrown them on to you without control
The things I freely give you stole
And now I'm left in pieces
Baby tell the world about me
The way you won me over in a city you can't remember
You think it was September
Sweet September
Oh baby
Oh
It's all right
I know she needs you more than I do
And I wouldn't win this fight
But there is one thing that you've gotta do
You've gotta tell the world about a girl you once knew
Oh
She wasn't meant to be but you fell so very deeply in love with me
To all the girls he's loved
To all the girls he's loved
No more
No love
I'm done
I've had enough
You're going off with her and I wish I was
But there's another can be just because
All right
Be on your way
The kindest thing to say is not that you have fallen for me
Say you'll come back to my arms again someday
Oh
Baby write some words about how you can't shut me out
How you must find a way to see me one more time
One more time
And please call up all your friends and tell them it can't end
You don't know what you'd do if you lost her and lost me too
That's fine
That's good
That's nice
I understand the price
The cost of craving dark instead of light
I flip a coin to see if you still care tonight
My blood
My hand
My soul
I've thrown them on to you without control
The things I freely give you stole
And now I'm left in pieces
Baby tell the world about me
The way you won me over in a city you can't remember
You think it was September
Sweet September
Oh baby
Oh
It's all right
I know she needs you more than I do
And I wouldn't win this fight
But there is one thing that you've gotta do
You've gotta tell the world about a girl you once knew
Oh
She wasn't meant to be but you fell so very deeply in love with me
To all the girls he's loved
To all the girls he's loved
Lyrics submitted by saraheliz4
Ode To... Lyrics as written by Rachael Amanda Yamagata
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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She's in love with him. He's in love with her... and another woman. He wants to be with both of them, but it hurts the singer too much when he goes off with "her," and she feels betrayed by his inability to commit. She knows that if she forces him to choose, he won't choose her... so she's walking away.
I don't think this is a typical "you cheated on me and I'm leaving you" song-- the situation seems far more complicated, either an open relationship or an affair (he's married and the singer is "the other woman"). It seems as if he really does love her deeply and will be heartbroken when she leaves, but he's unable or unwilling to give up the other woman he's with, and the situation just hurts her too much for her to stay. Painfully beautiful.