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.
Uh-huh
Ooh, yeah
Mmm, ah
(It's the Rascals)
I looked in my rearview mirror and
It seemed to make a lot more sense
Than what I see ahead of us, ahead of us, yeah
Uh, I'm ready to make that turn
Before we both crash and burn
'Cause that could be the death of us, the death of us
Baby, you know how to drive in rain
And you decided not to make a change
Stuck in the same old lane
Going the wrong way home
I feel like my heart is stuck in bumper to bumper traffic
I'm under pressure 'cause I can't have you the way that I want
Let's just go back to the way it was
When we were on Honeymoon Avenue
Honeymoon Avenue, baby
Coastin' like crazy
Can we get back to the way it was?
Hey, What happened to the butterflies?
Guess they encountered that stop sign
And my heart is at a yellow light, a yellow light
Hey, right when I think that we've found it (found it)
Well, that's when we start turnin' around (tunrin' around)
You're saying, "Baby, don't worry"
But we're still going the wrong way
Baby, you know how to drive in rain
And you decided not to make a change
Stuck in the same old lane
Going the wrong way home
I feel like my heart is stuck in bumper to bumper traffic
I'm under pressure 'cause I can't have you the way that I want
Let's just go back to the way it was
When we were on Honeymoon Avenue
Honeymoon Avenue, baby
Coastin' like crazy
Can we get back to the way it was?
They say only fools fall in love
Well, they must've been talking about us
And sometimes I feel like we've been here before
I could be wrong, but I know I'm right
We're gon' be lost if we continue to fight
Honey, I know, yeah
We can find our way home
I feel like my heart is stuck in bumper to bumper traffic
I'm under pressure 'cause I can't have you the way that I want
Let's just go back to the way it was
When we were on Honeymoon Avenue
Honeymoon Avenue, my baby
Coastin' like crazy
Can we get back to the way it was?
When we were on Honeymoon Avenue
Honeymoon Avenue, baby
Coastin' like crazy
Can we get back to the way it was?
Baby, you know how to drive in rain
And you decided not to make a change
Stuck in the same old lane
Going the wrong way home
I feel like my heart is stuck in
Traffic, I'm under
Pressure, pressure
Let's just go back to the way it was
When we were on
Honeymoon Avenue, Honeymoon Avenue
Honeymoon Avenue, Honeymoon Avenue
Avenue
Let's just go back, b-b-b-back, back, back
Ooh, yeah
Mmm, ah
(It's the Rascals)
I looked in my rearview mirror and
It seemed to make a lot more sense
Than what I see ahead of us, ahead of us, yeah
Uh, I'm ready to make that turn
Before we both crash and burn
'Cause that could be the death of us, the death of us
Baby, you know how to drive in rain
And you decided not to make a change
Stuck in the same old lane
Going the wrong way home
I feel like my heart is stuck in bumper to bumper traffic
I'm under pressure 'cause I can't have you the way that I want
Let's just go back to the way it was
When we were on Honeymoon Avenue
Honeymoon Avenue, baby
Coastin' like crazy
Can we get back to the way it was?
Hey, What happened to the butterflies?
Guess they encountered that stop sign
And my heart is at a yellow light, a yellow light
Hey, right when I think that we've found it (found it)
Well, that's when we start turnin' around (tunrin' around)
You're saying, "Baby, don't worry"
But we're still going the wrong way
Baby, you know how to drive in rain
And you decided not to make a change
Stuck in the same old lane
Going the wrong way home
I feel like my heart is stuck in bumper to bumper traffic
I'm under pressure 'cause I can't have you the way that I want
Let's just go back to the way it was
When we were on Honeymoon Avenue
Honeymoon Avenue, baby
Coastin' like crazy
Can we get back to the way it was?
They say only fools fall in love
Well, they must've been talking about us
And sometimes I feel like we've been here before
I could be wrong, but I know I'm right
We're gon' be lost if we continue to fight
Honey, I know, yeah
We can find our way home
I feel like my heart is stuck in bumper to bumper traffic
I'm under pressure 'cause I can't have you the way that I want
Let's just go back to the way it was
When we were on Honeymoon Avenue
Honeymoon Avenue, my baby
Coastin' like crazy
Can we get back to the way it was?
When we were on Honeymoon Avenue
Honeymoon Avenue, baby
Coastin' like crazy
Can we get back to the way it was?
Baby, you know how to drive in rain
And you decided not to make a change
Stuck in the same old lane
Going the wrong way home
I feel like my heart is stuck in
Traffic, I'm under
Pressure, pressure
Let's just go back to the way it was
When we were on
Honeymoon Avenue, Honeymoon Avenue
Honeymoon Avenue, Honeymoon Avenue
Avenue
Let's just go back, b-b-b-back, back, back
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I had a boyfriend for 7 months. We had fallen for each other really quickly... In the beginning of the relationship we thought we were invincible because we were so in love, and so attached to the relationship.
"You know how to drive in rain You decide and that's okay Stuck in the same old lane Going the wrong way home" ..eventually we began to argue over little things and the spark was beginning to drift away, but he didn't think anything of it, but our relationship began heading to that wrong direction. Because of his ex girlfriend, he was used to the fighting and didn't think the "rain" or my sadness was too serious so he flew right by it.
"I feel like my heart is stuck In bumper to bumper Traffic, I'm going to crash 'Cause I can't have you the way that I want Let's just go back to the way it was" ..I felt like I was trapped in the relationship because I wanted to go back to how we were in the beginning: in love.
"When we were on Honeymoon Avenue Honeymoon Avenue Baby, Constantly crazy Can we get back to the way it was" ..to me a "honeymoon" is sort of the beginning of something. A celebration where you can't have enough of each other, and just a bunch of emotions.
"Hey, what happened to the butterflies Guess they were moving kinda fast, that time" Our relationship started off pretty fast, where we just wanted to I straight to being in love and now those feelings we had are drifting away.
"And my heart is at a yellow light, a yellow light Hey, can we go back to where we found it But that's if we can turn it around You're saying baby don't worry But we're still going the wrong way baby" ..he didn't think much of it, or take it too seriously to a point where that empty feeling we both had wasn't going away.
"Think I'm in love But we continue to fight Honey I know We can find our way home" ..I was "in love" with him and didn't want to break up and wanted to keep the relationship going and wanted to try and go back to all that love we had before.
Love this song and ariana grande!
This song was written by Ariana when she was very young. This song was very important to her and was put as her first song on her first album for a reason. She also performed this many times before the album release and even before "The Way".
@jmosk she didn't write this song.
Every so often, this song will pop up while my music is shuffling and it's such a beautiful song and Ariana does a great job with it. And there was something about it that was giving me feels (lol), feels that I don't really get from modern songs. I looked it up and turns out this song was written (along with a bunch of other people), by Babyface. It all makes sense now. He's a genius and has written a great song for a talented singer.