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.
Exhausted by all this conjecture, our hero gets the chance in a lifetime to meet his hero:
Death. Death is wearing a light disguise, he made the outfit himself.
He calls it the "Supernatural Anaesthetist."
Death likes meeting people and wants to travel.
Death approaches Rael with his special canister,
releases a puff, and appears to walk away content into the wall.
Here comes the supernatural anesthetist.
If he wants you to snuff it,
All he has to do is puff it
He's such a fine dancer.
Death. Death is wearing a light disguise, he made the outfit himself.
He calls it the "Supernatural Anaesthetist."
Death likes meeting people and wants to travel.
Death approaches Rael with his special canister,
releases a puff, and appears to walk away content into the wall.
Here comes the supernatural anesthetist.
If he wants you to snuff it,
All he has to do is puff it
He's such a fine dancer.
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
Here Comes the Supernatural Anaesthetist Lyrics as written by Phillip David Charles Collins Anthony George Banks
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Another great example of Genesis as a "musician's" band rather than a casual listener's. Taken as a stand-alone I understand why Aniland would say "wtf;" however, it's meant to be listened to in continuity with the rest of the "Lamb" album. Further, like some forms of poetry, the words are not as important as the image they invoke (though there is actually a connection here to the events in the story that the album relates).