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.
The smell of January makes me think of
This time last year when we were still so in love
The same flowers are growing
In the same place
At the same time
In the same way
As last year
Last year, when you were mine
My old calendar is marked on this day
The special day that I have now put to hate
The same flowers are growing
In the same place
At the same time
In the same way
As last year
Last year, when you were mine
If we had never met, then I would never know
This empty longing for a time so long ago
I'm glad you're gone but sometimes I don't think it's fair
That this time every year my mind will be somewhere away
I go down all the streets that we once walked on
Thinking of things I haven't thought for so long
The same flowers are growing
In the same place
At the same time
In the same way
As last year
Last year, when you were mine
This time last year when we were still so in love
The same flowers are growing
In the same place
At the same time
In the same way
As last year
Last year, when you were mine
My old calendar is marked on this day
The special day that I have now put to hate
The same flowers are growing
In the same place
At the same time
In the same way
As last year
Last year, when you were mine
If we had never met, then I would never know
This empty longing for a time so long ago
I'm glad you're gone but sometimes I don't think it's fair
That this time every year my mind will be somewhere away
I go down all the streets that we once walked on
Thinking of things I haven't thought for so long
The same flowers are growing
In the same place
At the same time
In the same way
As last year
Last year, when you were mine
Lyrics submitted by Psychopathetic
Last Year Lyrics as written by Charlie Russell Graham Patrick Kearns
Lyrics © Global Talent Publishing, BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Peermusic Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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i think this song could be about someone close dying and remembering them.