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.
Her knees thrust in one direction
Like a symbol of math, a symbol meaning Greater Than.
I come recommended by four out of five,
I'm a factor in the whole plan.
Four and five therefore nine,
Nine and nine therefore eighteen,
Eighteen and eighteen therefore thirty-six,
Four and five therefore nine.
Sometimes I was
Drifting on a coffee buzz.
Quantify my luck
I need a mercy fuck.
You crowd me out.
You crowd me out.
Like a symbol of math, a symbol meaning Greater Than.
I come recommended by four out of five,
I'm a factor in the whole plan.
Four and five therefore nine,
Nine and nine therefore eighteen,
Eighteen and eighteen therefore thirty-six,
Four and five therefore nine.
Sometimes I was
Drifting on a coffee buzz.
Quantify my luck
I need a mercy fuck.
You crowd me out.
You crowd me out.
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There are nerdy sex jokes you can tell with a calculator, where the end result equals "boobs" or "loose." This is kind of like one of those.
It's about a guy who spits game in the form of a math equation, he gets teased, and is left high and dry.
The girl spreads her legs. ">"
He spits game that he's a good lover. 4 out of 5. So he's batting 80 percent in terms of who approves his sexual prowess.
It is insinuated that the girl is 18.
Quantify my luck - Solve his equation. X is 2. He wants to coupled with her, doubled like the numbers above.
Crowding out means, literally, being pressed, forced, or thrust out of a small space. He's trying to put it in... The girl throws him off.