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.
Ooh, yeah
Ah, yeah
Take me to the room where the red's all red
Take me out of my head, this is what I said
Yeah, ow
Hey, take me to the room where the green's all green
And from what I've seen it's hot, it's mean
Eh
Gonna use my stack
It's gotta be Mack
Gonna get me on the track
Got a dragon on my back
Take me to the room where the beat's all round
Gonna eat that sound yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Take me to the room where the black's all white
And the white's all black, take me back to the shack, shack
She don't take no prisoners
She gonna give me the business
Got a dragon on my back
Hey, it's a dragon attack
Get down
I said so
Wooh
Hey, hey
Alright
Yeah
Oh yeah-eah-eah-eah
(Low down) She don't take no prisoners
(Go down) She gonna give me the business
(No time) Yeah, chained to the rack
(Show time) Got a dragon on my back
(Show down) go find another customer
(Slow down) I gotta make my way
From me, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, oh
Oh, wrong way, yeah
Oh, wrong way
Hey
Alright
Oh, look out
Ah, yeah
Take me to the room where the red's all red
Take me out of my head, this is what I said
Yeah, ow
Hey, take me to the room where the green's all green
And from what I've seen it's hot, it's mean
Eh
Gonna use my stack
It's gotta be Mack
Gonna get me on the track
Got a dragon on my back
Take me to the room where the beat's all round
Gonna eat that sound yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Take me to the room where the black's all white
And the white's all black, take me back to the shack, shack
She don't take no prisoners
She gonna give me the business
Got a dragon on my back
Hey, it's a dragon attack
Get down
I said so
Wooh
Hey, hey
Alright
Yeah
Oh yeah-eah-eah-eah
(Low down) She don't take no prisoners
(Go down) She gonna give me the business
(No time) Yeah, chained to the rack
(Show time) Got a dragon on my back
(Show down) go find another customer
(Slow down) I gotta make my way
From me, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, oh
Oh, wrong way, yeah
Oh, wrong way
Hey
Alright
Oh, look out
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@ozonefiller not every song is about drugs.