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.
Take me down in a tidal wave
Take me down when I'm wired
The hardest thing you ever gave away
Is the hardest thing to keep
I am everything you wanted
I am everything you wanted
I am everything you need
Take me back to the other place
Take me back when I'm alone
I can see all the little things that once could make me whole
I am everything you wanted
I am everything you wanted
I am everything you need
But I can feel it again
I am everything you wanted
I am everything you need
Give me the colors of a different light
Give me the colors grey and blue
Everything you ever hoped to be is when the colors bleed
I am everything you wanted
I am everything you wanted
I am everything you wanted
Everything you wanted
Everything you wanted
Everything you wanted
Take me down when I'm wired
The hardest thing you ever gave away
Is the hardest thing to keep
I am everything you wanted
I am everything you wanted
I am everything you need
Take me back to the other place
Take me back when I'm alone
I can see all the little things that once could make me whole
I am everything you wanted
I am everything you wanted
I am everything you need
But I can feel it again
I am everything you wanted
I am everything you need
Give me the colors of a different light
Give me the colors grey and blue
Everything you ever hoped to be is when the colors bleed
I am everything you wanted
I am everything you wanted
I am everything you wanted
Everything you wanted
Everything you wanted
Everything you wanted
Lyrics submitted by TheCuomoTheory
Tidal Wave Lyrics as written by Skye Sweetnam James Robertson
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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i believe that it is
give me the colors of a different light give me the colors grey and blue
not
to me they're colors of a .. etc.
isn't it?