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 am in my pram
Look you, I'm so new
Oh, I'm sleeping there
Underneath the stairs
If you, wanted to
You'd find, inside my mind
Things so surreal
In the rain in cellophane
Pale dogs and demigods
They won't bring me down
The clocks go round, they never stop
I've been in limousines
I've seen inside your dreams
It's raining there
Try not to stare
In the rain in cellophane
Pale dogs and demigods
They won't bring me down
The clocks go round, they never stop
In the rain in cellophane
Pale dogs and demigods
They won't bring me down
The clocks go round, they never stop
Look you, I'm so new
Oh, I'm sleeping there
Underneath the stairs
If you, wanted to
You'd find, inside my mind
Things so surreal
In the rain in cellophane
Pale dogs and demigods
They won't bring me down
The clocks go round, they never stop
I've been in limousines
I've seen inside your dreams
It's raining there
Try not to stare
In the rain in cellophane
Pale dogs and demigods
They won't bring me down
The clocks go round, they never stop
In the rain in cellophane
Pale dogs and demigods
They won't bring me down
The clocks go round, they never stop
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I agree with XCrusherX's interpretation. Except for some details in the very last stanza.
"I've been - in limousines I've seen - inside your dreams It's raining there Try not to stare"
I think that this is from a later point of view too. I think this song is essentially about the innocence of infancy. When you're born you are pure and uncorrupted, in perfect harmony with the whole world. You're are provided with everything you need, and basically life seems easy. All looks like there'll be no pain, no suffering. In the last stanza he's grown up, he's realized that life is hard and filled with sorrow. And now the "rain in cellophane" isn't anymore something he feels comfortable with, even being in a limousine [so he's probably even a successful man]. He's mind has been touched by emotions and life and so now the rain somehow has gained that sad meaning we all know. Now rain just brings sad memories back. He's not trying to make his childhood world stay, he's just calmly withdrawing from the dramatic though of life as it is in reality. He's just trying to forget, while he knows too well that life's hardly ever simple and perfectly happy.
Regarding the missing line in the studio version I perfectly agree with Wakeboard_Snufkin... I thought of that too and now, seeing that someone else noticed it , I'm quite convinced that's pretty much why that line is in the lyrics but isn't sung... Steven's a fuckin' genius...
That's what I think...XD