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.
*chorus*
Save me one time, won't you?
Take this blackened heart and make it whole.
I don't fear for what I am
is the fall of man.
*/chorus
Rape and worship!
Life breeds death and disease.
Empathy out of reach.
We all wash with rain of blood skies.
(Pervert!) words that we read.
Blind men die for beliefs.
Fall back in the pit of tangled masses.
*chorus*
Save me one time, won't you?
Take this blackened heart and make it whole.
I don't fear for what I am
is the fall of man.
*/chorus
Sewn land of the free.
Live in the shit you bathe yourself.
God of your world!
This piss-stained mortuary hole!
Just look around.
We are the sheep left shepherd-less.
True and preverse,
We are the teeming maggots.
*spoken*
We are the collective scar across the face of existence itself.
We are the murderer, the rapist, the plague,
consumed by hatred and loathing.
*/spoken*
Life breeds death and disease.
Empathy out of reach.
We all wash with rain of blood skies.
Time soils our will.
It breaks us down with every war.
Child-fucking priest!
Religious zealots fuel the whore.
The common man bleeds
into the trough of those made rich.
The pure and the sick
kneel side by side as seconds. tick!
Seconds tick!
Dead God,
(Can't you save us?)
Doesn't lift a finger for us now.
(The blood is on our hands!)
No more time.
No more reason.
No more lies.
It's time we burn!
*solo*
*chorus*
(Time!)
Save me one time, won't you?
Take this blackened heart and make it.
(Take this blackened heart and make it!)
*/chorus*
Rape and worship!
Rape and worship!
Rape and worship!
Rape and worship!
Rape! and worship!
Rape! and worship!
Rape! and worship!
Rape! and worship!
Save me one time, won't you?
Take this blackened heart and make it whole.
I don't fear for what I am
is the fall of man.
*/chorus
Rape and worship!
Life breeds death and disease.
Empathy out of reach.
We all wash with rain of blood skies.
(Pervert!) words that we read.
Blind men die for beliefs.
Fall back in the pit of tangled masses.
*chorus*
Save me one time, won't you?
Take this blackened heart and make it whole.
I don't fear for what I am
is the fall of man.
*/chorus
Sewn land of the free.
Live in the shit you bathe yourself.
God of your world!
This piss-stained mortuary hole!
Just look around.
We are the sheep left shepherd-less.
True and preverse,
We are the teeming maggots.
*spoken*
We are the collective scar across the face of existence itself.
We are the murderer, the rapist, the plague,
consumed by hatred and loathing.
*/spoken*
Life breeds death and disease.
Empathy out of reach.
We all wash with rain of blood skies.
Time soils our will.
It breaks us down with every war.
Child-fucking priest!
Religious zealots fuel the whore.
The common man bleeds
into the trough of those made rich.
The pure and the sick
kneel side by side as seconds. tick!
Seconds tick!
Dead God,
(Can't you save us?)
Doesn't lift a finger for us now.
(The blood is on our hands!)
No more time.
No more reason.
No more lies.
It's time we burn!
*solo*
*chorus*
(Time!)
Save me one time, won't you?
Take this blackened heart and make it.
(Take this blackened heart and make it!)
*/chorus*
Rape and worship!
Rape and worship!
Rape and worship!
Rape and worship!
Rape! and worship!
Rape! and worship!
Rape! and worship!
Rape! and worship!
Lyrics submitted by TheLoveBelow19
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It could be about God that he left us. Because they are screaming for help:
"Dead God, (Can't you save us?) Doesn't lift a finger for us now. (The blood is on our hands!)"
but no one comes to help us, even the church is corrupt and abuses little children
"Child-fucking priest! Religious zealots fuel the whore. The common man bleeds into the trough of those made rich. The pure and the sick kneel side by side as seconds. tick! Seconds tick!"
and at the same time there will be a few men which get richer und a dozen people which have nothing.
This is only my opinion so please keep your critic by yourself