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.
See that face from across the room
and I can feel you're nothing
show your fear it's not hard to see
intentions pale, it's blinding
stop stop from place i've been
no good for the shape i'm in
i'm sold to the race you win
you want to take me out
stop stop
will you face off him
my space in the wickedy sin
no change for the place I'm in
but you change too
stop! stop!
I am all you need to know
and I am everywhere you go
no one can save you now
when it all comes around
and I'm everything you see
and I'm what you'll never be
no one can save you now
when it all comes around
show your face
and stare at me
and I can feel you clearing
showing up and preparing me
and you're the one I'm bury
stop stop
from place i've been
no good for the shape i'm in
i'm sold to the race you win
you want to take me out
stop stop
will you face off him
my space in the wickedy sin
no change for the place I'm
but you change too
stop! stop!
And I am all you need to know
and I'm everywhere you go
no one can save you now
when it all comes around
and I'm everything you see
and I'm what you'll never be
no one can save you now
when it all comes around
take you down
leave you fallen, faceless, hurt
and leave you down
fall, break you now
leave you fallen, faceless, hurt
and take you down
wanna take you down!
I am all you need to know
I am everywhere you go
no one can save you now
when it all comes around
I am everything you see
I am what you'll never be
no one can save you now
when it all comes around
and I can feel you're nothing
show your fear it's not hard to see
intentions pale, it's blinding
stop stop from place i've been
no good for the shape i'm in
i'm sold to the race you win
you want to take me out
stop stop
will you face off him
my space in the wickedy sin
no change for the place I'm in
but you change too
stop! stop!
I am all you need to know
and I am everywhere you go
no one can save you now
when it all comes around
and I'm everything you see
and I'm what you'll never be
no one can save you now
when it all comes around
show your face
and stare at me
and I can feel you clearing
showing up and preparing me
and you're the one I'm bury
stop stop
from place i've been
no good for the shape i'm in
i'm sold to the race you win
you want to take me out
stop stop
will you face off him
my space in the wickedy sin
no change for the place I'm
but you change too
stop! stop!
And I am all you need to know
and I'm everywhere you go
no one can save you now
when it all comes around
and I'm everything you see
and I'm what you'll never be
no one can save you now
when it all comes around
take you down
leave you fallen, faceless, hurt
and leave you down
fall, break you now
leave you fallen, faceless, hurt
and take you down
wanna take you down!
I am all you need to know
I am everywhere you go
no one can save you now
when it all comes around
I am everything you see
I am what you'll never be
no one can save you now
when it all comes around
Lyrics submitted by tRyXRyZ
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this song is aw2thesome