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.
Roger
I should tell you I'm disaster
I forget how to begin it
Mimi
Let's just make this part go faster
I have yet -- to be in it
I should tell you
Roger
I should tell you
Mimi
I should tell you
Roger
I should tell you
Mimi
I should tell I blew the candle out
Just to get back in
Roger
I'd forgotten how to smile
Until your candle burned my skin
Mimi
I should tell you
Roger
I should tell you
Mimi
I should tell you
Both
I should tell
Well, here we go
Now we --
Mimi
Oh no
Roger
I know -- this something is
Here goes --
Mimi
Here goes
Roger
Guess so
It's starting to
-Who knows?
Mimi
Who knows
Both
Who knows where
Who goes there
Who knows
Here goes
Trusting desire - starting to learn
Walking through fire without a burn
Clinging - a shoulder, a leap begins
Stinging and older, asleep on pins
So here we go
Now we --
Roger
Oh no
Mimi
I know
Roger
Oh no
Both
Who knows where - who goes there
Here goes - here goes
Here goes - here goes
Here goes - here goes
I should tell you I'm disaster
I forget how to begin it
Mimi
Let's just make this part go faster
I have yet -- to be in it
I should tell you
Roger
I should tell you
Mimi
I should tell you
Roger
I should tell you
Mimi
I should tell I blew the candle out
Just to get back in
Roger
I'd forgotten how to smile
Until your candle burned my skin
Mimi
I should tell you
Roger
I should tell you
Mimi
I should tell you
Both
I should tell
Well, here we go
Now we --
Mimi
Oh no
Roger
I know -- this something is
Here goes --
Mimi
Here goes
Roger
Guess so
It's starting to
-Who knows?
Mimi
Who knows
Both
Who knows where
Who goes there
Who knows
Here goes
Trusting desire - starting to learn
Walking through fire without a burn
Clinging - a shoulder, a leap begins
Stinging and older, asleep on pins
So here we go
Now we --
Roger
Oh no
Mimi
I know
Roger
Oh no
Both
Who knows where - who goes there
Here goes - here goes
Here goes - here goes
Here goes - here goes
Lyrics submitted by babeee
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i love this song its so true. everyone has baggage and if youre scared of getting hurt you're never going to learn or live. so you just have to trust that it will all be ok and just let go.