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.
Wake up, can you hear me?
You're so clever, did you find me?
In the backroom, in your closet
In your suitcase, there's no running
I will find you, like the glacier
Cuts the seabed, leaving canyons
In your cheekbones, passing through you
In the shadows, scenes undo you
Cut your ribbon
As it follows you
Everything, everything
How can you sleep at night?
As it falls apart
Anything, anything
How can you sleep at night?
Face it, can you hear it?
Violation, you'll remember
It's all harmless, incidental
Disengaging, these thoughts break you
Conscious, vicious
It has found you, monovision
Synapse fails you
Frequent syndrome
Stings and burns through
Monovision then dilutes you
Cut your ribbon
As it follows you
Everything, everything
How can you sleep at night?
As it falls apart
Anything, anything
How can you sleep at night?
As it follows you
Everything, everything
How can you sleep at night?
As it falls apart
Anything, anything
How can you sleep at night?
(Can you escape these motives?)
(Can you escape these motives?)
(Can you escape these motives?)
Cut your ribbon
As it follows you
Everything, everything
How can you sleep at night?
As it falls apart
Anything, anything
How can you sleep at night?
You're so clever, did you find me?
In the backroom, in your closet
In your suitcase, there's no running
I will find you, like the glacier
Cuts the seabed, leaving canyons
In your cheekbones, passing through you
In the shadows, scenes undo you
Cut your ribbon
As it follows you
Everything, everything
How can you sleep at night?
As it falls apart
Anything, anything
How can you sleep at night?
Face it, can you hear it?
Violation, you'll remember
It's all harmless, incidental
Disengaging, these thoughts break you
Conscious, vicious
It has found you, monovision
Synapse fails you
Frequent syndrome
Stings and burns through
Monovision then dilutes you
Cut your ribbon
As it follows you
Everything, everything
How can you sleep at night?
As it falls apart
Anything, anything
How can you sleep at night?
As it follows you
Everything, everything
How can you sleep at night?
As it falls apart
Anything, anything
How can you sleep at night?
(Can you escape these motives?)
(Can you escape these motives?)
(Can you escape these motives?)
Cut your ribbon
As it follows you
Everything, everything
How can you sleep at night?
As it falls apart
Anything, anything
How can you sleep at night?
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That song is "Where is my mind" by the pixies. To my knowledge Sparta have never covered it and the file you have is probably mislabeled. I know Nada Surf do an excellent cover.