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.
Wendy's walking out alone and it's Saturday night
All the boys act tough but they've gotta bite
When they do they'll get more than a slap on the wrist
And it's clear who's promoting her own myth
So I'll take the fifth
Take the fifth oh
Everybody talks it up all of Saturday night
And all the kids want to brag in fact that they got a right
But it ain't gonna be just a slap on the wrist
And it's clear who's gonna go and promote her own myth
Gonna talk the fifth
Take the fifth oh
But I'll take the fifth
I'll take the fifth oh
In back of the room when she walk on through find ?em
Stacked against the wall
On the tip of their tongue is the word that all along could
Turn around the way it'd fall
The thinking about what she's got she's about got me backed
Against the wall
On the tip of my tongue cause I knew it all along I'd be back
There if I wouldn't fall
If I wouldn't fall
If I wouldn't fall
Wendy's out on her own it's a Saturday night
And I've been hanging around as if to save my life
All the girls stand around with their hands on their hips
'Cause all the boys have already fallen prey to her myth
But I'm gonna take the fifth
I'll take the fifth oh
And I'll take the fifth
I'll take the fifth oh
And I'll take the fifth
I'll take the fifth
And I'll take the fifth
I'll take the fifth oh
All the boys act tough but they've gotta bite
When they do they'll get more than a slap on the wrist
And it's clear who's promoting her own myth
So I'll take the fifth
Take the fifth oh
Everybody talks it up all of Saturday night
And all the kids want to brag in fact that they got a right
But it ain't gonna be just a slap on the wrist
And it's clear who's gonna go and promote her own myth
Gonna talk the fifth
Take the fifth oh
But I'll take the fifth
I'll take the fifth oh
In back of the room when she walk on through find ?em
Stacked against the wall
On the tip of their tongue is the word that all along could
Turn around the way it'd fall
The thinking about what she's got she's about got me backed
Against the wall
On the tip of my tongue cause I knew it all along I'd be back
There if I wouldn't fall
If I wouldn't fall
If I wouldn't fall
Wendy's out on her own it's a Saturday night
And I've been hanging around as if to save my life
All the girls stand around with their hands on their hips
'Cause all the boys have already fallen prey to her myth
But I'm gonna take the fifth
I'll take the fifth oh
And I'll take the fifth
I'll take the fifth oh
And I'll take the fifth
I'll take the fifth
And I'll take the fifth
I'll take the fifth oh
Lyrics submitted by foxyurchin
Take the Fifth Lyrics as written by Britt Daniel
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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