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.
Banned from the end of the world, end of the world, end of the world
I've no millennial fear,
the future is here, it comes every year
(If you want me there, I'll play forever dear
Open up the box a new life rushes out
Nasty little bug, much work to be done
Eat all the numbers up, we're 00 gone!)
Hot, hot, go back, these eyes are shut!
If you want it, I'll come right over
then throw me out when the party's over
Banned from the end of your world, end of the world, end of the world
We can bottle time and sell it back
it's a nostalgic crime!
(If you want me there, we'll party without fear
A new world rushes on and we'll just play along
A night of revelry spend it here with me
For so many dreams cannot be contained)
Hot, hot, go back, these eyes are shut!
If you want it, I'll come right over
then throw me out when the party's over
Banned from the end of the world,
The future is here, look in the mirror
(We're the band from the end of the world.)
I've no millennial fear,
the future is here, it comes every year
(If you want me there, I'll play forever dear
Open up the box a new life rushes out
Nasty little bug, much work to be done
Eat all the numbers up, we're 00 gone!)
Hot, hot, go back, these eyes are shut!
If you want it, I'll come right over
then throw me out when the party's over
Banned from the end of your world, end of the world, end of the world
We can bottle time and sell it back
it's a nostalgic crime!
(If you want me there, we'll party without fear
A new world rushes on and we'll just play along
A night of revelry spend it here with me
For so many dreams cannot be contained)
Hot, hot, go back, these eyes are shut!
If you want it, I'll come right over
then throw me out when the party's over
Banned from the end of the world,
The future is here, look in the mirror
(We're the band from the end of the world.)
Lyrics submitted by OwnPersonalDemon
Banned From The End Of The World Lyrics as written by Corin Lisa Tucker Carrie Rachel Brownstein
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Remember all the craziness going on at the turn of the millenium? There's just all this panic about the world supposedly ending, everything going tits-up, people getting drunk beyond belief, partying like mad. It was just crazy. That's what this song means to me.