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.
Yeah woah
Gunfire left a hole in the tank, losing gasoline
Fire is on my trail and he's after me
Hope it don't get here before I get where I'm going
I gotta get where I'm going, take off my mask to breathe
You could've been a part of a masterpiece
Fluid in the brakes was the last to leak
That's the thing
Where I'm going I don't need my brakes
Can't wait to see your face
When your front windows break
And I come crashing through
The lovers need to clear the road-oh-oh, oh oh
'Cause this thing is ready to blow-oh-oh, oh oh
I just wanna set you on fire so I won't have
To burn alone, then you
Then you'll know where I'm coming from
Fire bomb
Fire bomb
Seems cold but baby no it doesn't have to be
Microwaving a metal tragedy
Watching it burning, it's beautiful and it's blue
And it's pitiful when it's through, it's the other half of me
I didn't do it you lit the match for me
Now we're flying from the blast baby
That's the thing
Where I'm going I don't need my brakes
Can't wait to see your face
When your front windows break
And I come crashing through
The lovers need to clear the road-oh-oh, oh oh
'Cause this thing is ready to blow-oh-oh, oh oh
I just wanna set you on fire so I won't have
To burn alone, then you
Then you'll know where I'm coming from
Fire bomb
Fire bomb
Baby we were killin' em
They couldn't handle the millionth, degree
We were criminals
'Cause we were burning, the world called the police
Fire department, ambulance
You can call me crazy
'Cause I believe the only move for me and you
Is to go out blazing
The lovers need to clear the road-oh-oh, oh oh
'Cause this thing is ready to blow-oh-oh, oh oh
I just wanna set you on fire so I won't have
To burn alone, then you
Then you'll know where I'm coming from
Fire bomb
(Oh oh oh)
Fire bomb
Gunfire left a hole in the tank, losing gasoline
Fire is on my trail and he's after me
Hope it don't get here before I get where I'm going
I gotta get where I'm going, take off my mask to breathe
You could've been a part of a masterpiece
Fluid in the brakes was the last to leak
That's the thing
Where I'm going I don't need my brakes
Can't wait to see your face
When your front windows break
And I come crashing through
The lovers need to clear the road-oh-oh, oh oh
'Cause this thing is ready to blow-oh-oh, oh oh
I just wanna set you on fire so I won't have
To burn alone, then you
Then you'll know where I'm coming from
Fire bomb
Fire bomb
Seems cold but baby no it doesn't have to be
Microwaving a metal tragedy
Watching it burning, it's beautiful and it's blue
And it's pitiful when it's through, it's the other half of me
I didn't do it you lit the match for me
Now we're flying from the blast baby
That's the thing
Where I'm going I don't need my brakes
Can't wait to see your face
When your front windows break
And I come crashing through
The lovers need to clear the road-oh-oh, oh oh
'Cause this thing is ready to blow-oh-oh, oh oh
I just wanna set you on fire so I won't have
To burn alone, then you
Then you'll know where I'm coming from
Fire bomb
Fire bomb
Baby we were killin' em
They couldn't handle the millionth, degree
We were criminals
'Cause we were burning, the world called the police
Fire department, ambulance
You can call me crazy
'Cause I believe the only move for me and you
Is to go out blazing
The lovers need to clear the road-oh-oh, oh oh
'Cause this thing is ready to blow-oh-oh, oh oh
I just wanna set you on fire so I won't have
To burn alone, then you
Then you'll know where I'm coming from
Fire bomb
(Oh oh oh)
Fire bomb
Lyrics submitted by notactiveanymore
Fire Bomb Lyrics as written by James Fauntleroy Robyn Fenty
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