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.
I'll wait for you until the end of the world
All the weights that keep me down
Seem heavier than before
They hit me in my face
Though you feel nothing
Only time will heal you say
Your word's not therapy
That half of me is gone
My dearest treasure torn away
I'll stick with you until the end of the world
I cry out loud but you hear nothing
I'll wait for you until the end of the world
My dearest treasure torn away
All the weights that keep me down
Seem heavier than before
They hit me in my face
Though you feel nothing
Only time will heal you say
Your word's not therapy
That half of me is gone
My dearest treasure torn away
I'll stick with you until the end of the world
I cry out loud but you hear nothing
I'll wait for you until the end of the world
That half of me is gone, my dearest treasure torn away
I'll stick with you until the end of the world
I cry out loud but you hear nothing
I'll wait for you until the end of the world
My dearest treasure torn away
All the weights that keep me down
Seem heavier than before
They hit me in my face
Though you feel nothing
Only time will heal you say
Your word's not therapy
That half of me is gone
My dearest treasure torn away
I'll stick with you until the end of the world
I cry out loud but you hear nothing
I'll wait for you until the end of the world
My dearest treasure torn away
All the weights that keep me down
Seem heavier than before
They hit me in my face
Though you feel nothing
Only time will heal you say
Your word's not therapy
That half of me is gone
My dearest treasure torn away
I'll stick with you until the end of the world
I cry out loud but you hear nothing
I'll wait for you until the end of the world
That half of me is gone, my dearest treasure torn away
I'll stick with you until the end of the world
I cry out loud but you hear nothing
I'll wait for you until the end of the world
My dearest treasure torn away
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Has anyone considered the possibility that this may be about the death of a wife or girlfriend? If this is the case, it would explain a few things.
1) Until the end of the world - until death, so he can be reunited with his lost lover 2) Fate hits me in my face, though you feel nothing - the fate is that she died... breaking up with someone is hardly what I would call fate 3) Only time will heal, you say. Your words my therapy. - her words are ringing in his mind after she has passed away 4) I cry out loud but you hear nothing. - She is motionless and unresponsive inside the casket. He is mourning her death.