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.
how can this be, you're moving
i made it straight to the point
away from me, like across the country
to leave me here to lie down cold
should i be sad or what
do you expect me to give up
is it over now
will you just move on?
i owned nothing of yours
so i never gave anything back
and just had you say good bye to me
and give me a hug and that was it
should i be sad or what
do you expect me to give up
is it over now
will you just move on?
i hear a ring and it's from you
just called to see if everything is alrite
and i say i'm just the same
what about you?
you bore me when you lie and i caught you then
when you say the girls aint after you
i told you i'm strong and i'm just holding on
waitin for the day you come back to me
aww little girl how cute
you expect him to come back to you
you're blind, girl blind i tell you
he will never come back to you
so finally you spill out your secrets
the obvious ones where the girls are all over you
you've got five shorties hangin on your arm
walking like your king
should i be sad or what
do you expect me to give up
is it over now
will you just move on?
i never cried about you like i never cried before
but, you're killing me everytime i hear a girl laughing in
the background when you talk to me on the phone
i'm begging you to find something real
and that something real is me
but you just ignore it when you told me once
that when you touch me i'm just like a sapphire stone
aww little girl how cute
you expect him to come back to you
you're blind, girl blind i tell you
he will never come back to you
should i be sad or what
do you expect me to give up
is it over now
will you just move on?
should i be sad or what
do you expect me to give up
is it over now
will you just move on?
i made it straight to the point
away from me, like across the country
to leave me here to lie down cold
should i be sad or what
do you expect me to give up
is it over now
will you just move on?
i owned nothing of yours
so i never gave anything back
and just had you say good bye to me
and give me a hug and that was it
should i be sad or what
do you expect me to give up
is it over now
will you just move on?
i hear a ring and it's from you
just called to see if everything is alrite
and i say i'm just the same
what about you?
you bore me when you lie and i caught you then
when you say the girls aint after you
i told you i'm strong and i'm just holding on
waitin for the day you come back to me
aww little girl how cute
you expect him to come back to you
you're blind, girl blind i tell you
he will never come back to you
so finally you spill out your secrets
the obvious ones where the girls are all over you
you've got five shorties hangin on your arm
walking like your king
should i be sad or what
do you expect me to give up
is it over now
will you just move on?
i never cried about you like i never cried before
but, you're killing me everytime i hear a girl laughing in
the background when you talk to me on the phone
i'm begging you to find something real
and that something real is me
but you just ignore it when you told me once
that when you touch me i'm just like a sapphire stone
aww little girl how cute
you expect him to come back to you
you're blind, girl blind i tell you
he will never come back to you
should i be sad or what
do you expect me to give up
is it over now
will you just move on?
should i be sad or what
do you expect me to give up
is it over now
will you just move on?
Lyrics submitted by Justmaybe
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<3 The lyrics...they are hottness