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.
A ravenous greed for a brood to feed
A lusting spawn on a weekend fawn
Do you hunger for this, hunger for this?
Sucking leaches feel the need
Sucking dry unsated stomach pops
Sharpened knives, oh, with flying sparks
Sagging bodies with stretch marks
And your belly aches
Do you hunger for this, hunger for this?
Hunger for this, bled white with avarice
As the rust creeps
Corrosion seeps a rotting seed
Eat me, oh, feed me
With your belching foul breath
Your destructive kiss, death
Do you hunger for this, hunger for this?
Hunger for this, just a taste of a sweet kiss
Shanghaied on a locust flight
And the thirst from a vampire bite
Fills the emptiness inside
Consuming everything green eyed
We hunger, we hunger
We are hunger for this
Hunger for this
Hunger for this
The bliss of a sweet kiss
Hunger for this
(Hunger for this)
Hunger for this
(Hunger for this)
We hunger, we hunger
We're hunger for this
(Hunger for this)
Hunger for this
(Hunger for this)
We hunger
A lusting spawn on a weekend fawn
Do you hunger for this, hunger for this?
Sucking leaches feel the need
Sucking dry unsated stomach pops
Sharpened knives, oh, with flying sparks
Sagging bodies with stretch marks
And your belly aches
Do you hunger for this, hunger for this?
Hunger for this, bled white with avarice
As the rust creeps
Corrosion seeps a rotting seed
Eat me, oh, feed me
With your belching foul breath
Your destructive kiss, death
Do you hunger for this, hunger for this?
Hunger for this, just a taste of a sweet kiss
Shanghaied on a locust flight
And the thirst from a vampire bite
Fills the emptiness inside
Consuming everything green eyed
We hunger, we hunger
We are hunger for this
Hunger for this
Hunger for this
The bliss of a sweet kiss
Hunger for this
(Hunger for this)
Hunger for this
(Hunger for this)
We hunger, we hunger
We're hunger for this
(Hunger for this)
Hunger for this
(Hunger for this)
We hunger
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this song is quoted in the vampire book by melton.
thought that was a good bit of info.