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.
Eye'm sorry, eye'm ugly, all that I am, and I can never live up, eye'm failing, eye'm angry, afraid of the ways, they pretend to be us. its fuct up, eye'm different, wurdz remain, my only escape. art saves, all of me, evolving, and now you're walking away!!! eye'm so afraid! and now your walking away!. eye'm so ashamed! and now your walking away!!!
Map mange ou sans sel [voodoo curse]
My mistake, was trusting you, blood pigs, with creating my fate. with poetry and suffering. I cannibalized, every ounce of my pain. eye'm still afraid, everyday. these greedy worms, - they devour my plagues, eye'm not your slave, eye'm conquering. you see me rise, & now you're walking away!!! eye'm not ashamed! and now your walking away! eye'm not afraid! and now your walking away!!!
You can't hurt me anymore, you can't hurt me anymore. fed from the womb from which we were bled, vomiting filth in our soft cave heads, chewing on tissue, tendon and fat, destroying the things they do not understand!
Tyrant. betrayer. parasite. traitor!!... and still you feed them... and still you need them, eye'm sorry, eye'm ugly, dangerous, can't describe it enough, eye'm failing, eye'm angry. I use my fear to empower my hate, eye'm fuct up, eye'm different. wurdz remain my only escape, art saves, all of me, evolving, and now your walking away!!! eye'm not ashamed! and now your walking away! eye'm not afraid! and now your walking away! and now your walking away! and now your walking away! and now your walking away
Map mange ou sans sel [voodoo curse]
My mistake! was trusting you! blood pigs - with creating my fate! with poetry and suffering I cannibalized... every ounce of my pain eye'm still afraid everyday. you still suckle my plagues. eye'm not your fucking slave, so why you walking away??? blood pig! why you walking away???
Map mange ou sans sel [voodoo curse]
My mistake, was trusting you, blood pigs, with creating my fate. with poetry and suffering. I cannibalized, every ounce of my pain. eye'm still afraid, everyday. these greedy worms, - they devour my plagues, eye'm not your slave, eye'm conquering. you see me rise, & now you're walking away!!! eye'm not ashamed! and now your walking away! eye'm not afraid! and now your walking away!!!
You can't hurt me anymore, you can't hurt me anymore. fed from the womb from which we were bled, vomiting filth in our soft cave heads, chewing on tissue, tendon and fat, destroying the things they do not understand!
Tyrant. betrayer. parasite. traitor!!... and still you feed them... and still you need them, eye'm sorry, eye'm ugly, dangerous, can't describe it enough, eye'm failing, eye'm angry. I use my fear to empower my hate, eye'm fuct up, eye'm different. wurdz remain my only escape, art saves, all of me, evolving, and now your walking away!!! eye'm not ashamed! and now your walking away! eye'm not afraid! and now your walking away! and now your walking away! and now your walking away! and now your walking away
Map mange ou sans sel [voodoo curse]
My mistake! was trusting you! blood pigs - with creating my fate! with poetry and suffering I cannibalized... every ounce of my pain eye'm still afraid everyday. you still suckle my plagues. eye'm not your fucking slave, so why you walking away??? blood pig! why you walking away???
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sdsd Thanks for the Voodoo spell.
I think the meaning of the song is purely political - blood pigs, r people on the top of our society. We allow them to lead us, but they only pretend to be human (allusion to how the politicians play with lifes of others seeming not to have any compassion) that's why she's scared. She also says that Art is the only way for her to defeat them or to be free of them or smth. Well, hopefully my analysis wasn't totally stupid...