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, you first well you brought it up
I'm just swimming in my temptation, my blood, my wine
And I'm having a whirlwind of a time
Confusion is mine I own it
I can never get to you if I'm going
Back and forth
Backwards, forwards
Back and forth
Backwards, forwards
Wake up in the twilight
You're a dream in black and blue
And you're in between the sky and the ground
And I can never get to you
A dirty compromise
A dirty split in the making
Well that's an abyss of a thought
Truly no one knows what they've got
It's always
Back and forth
Backwards, forwards
Back and forth
Backwards, forwards
Maybe it's all because I'm not made for it
Give me back my brain
Let me sugar coat it
All is well when you're lost and then you're found
Seriously, it's like moving
Back and forth
Backwards, forwards
Back and forth
Backwards, forwards
Maybe it's all because I'm not made for it
Give me back my brain
Let me sugar coat it
All is well when you're lost and then you're found
It's like moving
Maybe it's all because I'm not made for it (back and forth)
Give me back my brain (backwards, forwards)
Let me sugar coat it (back and forth)
All is well when you're lost and then you're found (backwards, forwards)
It's like moving
Maybe it's all because I'm not made for it
Give me back my brain
Let me sugar coat it
All is well when you're lost and then you're found
It's like moving
I'm just swimming in my temptation, my blood, my wine
And I'm having a whirlwind of a time
Confusion is mine I own it
I can never get to you if I'm going
Back and forth
Backwards, forwards
Back and forth
Backwards, forwards
Wake up in the twilight
You're a dream in black and blue
And you're in between the sky and the ground
And I can never get to you
A dirty compromise
A dirty split in the making
Well that's an abyss of a thought
Truly no one knows what they've got
It's always
Back and forth
Backwards, forwards
Back and forth
Backwards, forwards
Maybe it's all because I'm not made for it
Give me back my brain
Let me sugar coat it
All is well when you're lost and then you're found
Seriously, it's like moving
Back and forth
Backwards, forwards
Back and forth
Backwards, forwards
Maybe it's all because I'm not made for it
Give me back my brain
Let me sugar coat it
All is well when you're lost and then you're found
It's like moving
Maybe it's all because I'm not made for it (back and forth)
Give me back my brain (backwards, forwards)
Let me sugar coat it (back and forth)
All is well when you're lost and then you're found (backwards, forwards)
It's like moving
Maybe it's all because I'm not made for it
Give me back my brain
Let me sugar coat it
All is well when you're lost and then you're found
It's like moving
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I like the sarcastic ending it's like moving adressed to craving to love/lust...