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.
Use your bed like a trampoline, I said…higher, higher
Just for love if you know what I mean, I said higher, higher
I'm what you desire, sire
I'm gonna take you higher, higher
Mm, use your car like a hot machine, I said higher, higher
Just for love if you know what I mean, I said higher, higher
I'm what you desire, sire
I'm gonna take you higher, higher
Higher, high, high
Higher, higher
Higher, high, high
Higher, higher
Higher, high, high
Higher
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Higher
Higher
Higher
Higher
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Higher
Higher
Higher
Higher
High, higher
Just for love if you know what I mean, I said higher, higher
I'm what you desire, sire
I'm gonna take you higher, higher
Mm, use your car like a hot machine, I said higher, higher
Just for love if you know what I mean, I said higher, higher
I'm what you desire, sire
I'm gonna take you higher, higher
Higher, high, high
Higher, higher
Higher, high, high
Higher, higher
Higher, high, high
Higher
Higher
Higher
Higher
Higher
Higher
Higher
Higher
Higher
Higher
Higher
Higher
High, higher
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I think this song is just pure fun! When they played this live she was jumping and dancing around the stages like a lunatic..shes so funny to watch live! Definetly a must see..
this song...oh yeah its so fucking good. it has that dirty garage sound - and Pae sounds like Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs with her grunting. Don't you just love garage bands//
hahah this song makes me giggle and want to dance.
it makes us dance :)
Perhaps pure fun, but I'm finding it's got some meanings of sex in it. For example:
"Use your bed like a trampoline I said – Higher! Higher!"
Perhaps she's taken a guy home and she's getting it on with him, and it's taking her higher like a trampoline.
"Use your car like a hot machine I said – Higher! Higher!"
Remember back in the 50s (i guess it still happens) when guys used to rev their engines to get the attention of girls. I think that's what's happening here.
"I’m what you desire! ’Sire!"
I think it's pretty obvious what this line means.
When I first heard this song, I thought Karen O. had been reincarnated and her soul was still dishing out lusty lines full of innuendo. And then I thought no, Karen is still alive and kickin', so the singer obviously must have been drafted by KO herself and fashioned to be Karen: The Sequel. But apparently, in reality, the singer's name is Patience and she lives in the UK or something. All that really matters is my top-secret, hot fetish for trampolines is embodied in this song, and I can listen to it in my car while I turn the heater on full blast, thus making it a hot machine. And as a final notice, did anybody else notice you can't spell "trampoline" without "TRAMP"? HA.
definately about sex...
even Triple J's Rosie Beaton said so.
She described it as a song about free love.
sex song sex song sex song! can't go wrong with a simple sex song :)