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.
Your, lies
Yeah
I didn't think that I had a debt to pay
'Til they came to take all I had left away
You said you wouldn't put me to the test today
But I remember you saying that yesterday
There was a time when your mind wasn't out of control
Every memory and confession pouring out of your soul
Like a pill you couldn't swallow and it swallowed you whole
Another lie hard to follow 'til followed you home
And like that
Broken down
A victim of your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You crossed the line
Wrapped up inside your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You're lost inside
That cold disguise
Behind your
Lies
I don't know what you thought I might say
Seems like we never would talk the right way
Every other minute I fought for my place
And drop what I made, and thought you might stay so
I'm guessing that you probably know
When your inside's hollow then you want to be cold
Like a pill I couldn't swallow and it swallowed me whole
Another lie hard to follow 'til followed me home
And like that
Broken down
A victim of your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You crossed the line
Wrapped up inside your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You're lost inside
That cold disguise
Behind your
Lies
You're faking, you're mistaken
If you think that you could climb out of this hole
Forsaken, what we take with
Analyzing by the power of control
Broken down
A victim of your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You hide behind
Wrapped up inside your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You crossed the line
Wrapped up inside your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You're lost inside
That cold disguise
Behind your
Lies
Yeah
I didn't think that I had a debt to pay
'Til they came to take all I had left away
You said you wouldn't put me to the test today
But I remember you saying that yesterday
There was a time when your mind wasn't out of control
Every memory and confession pouring out of your soul
Like a pill you couldn't swallow and it swallowed you whole
Another lie hard to follow 'til followed you home
And like that
Broken down
A victim of your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You crossed the line
Wrapped up inside your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You're lost inside
That cold disguise
Behind your
Lies
I don't know what you thought I might say
Seems like we never would talk the right way
Every other minute I fought for my place
And drop what I made, and thought you might stay so
I'm guessing that you probably know
When your inside's hollow then you want to be cold
Like a pill I couldn't swallow and it swallowed me whole
Another lie hard to follow 'til followed me home
And like that
Broken down
A victim of your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You crossed the line
Wrapped up inside your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You're lost inside
That cold disguise
Behind your
Lies
You're faking, you're mistaken
If you think that you could climb out of this hole
Forsaken, what we take with
Analyzing by the power of control
Broken down
A victim of your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You hide behind
Wrapped up inside your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You don't know
Why
You crossed the line
Wrapped up inside your
Lies
You hide behind
Lies
You're lost inside
That cold disguise
Behind your
Lies
Lyrics submitted by NocturnalDominion
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