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.
Death is on the Midway
Gambling with souls
Roulette on the wire
Ace is in the hole
I sink beneath the feeling
Moon is in my hands
A crooked wheel of Twenty-One
I just don't understand, no!
Laugh, yeah, drown and Laugh
Your life is over
If God is the dealer
Why do we never win?
A bloody mix of silk and mud
That starts all over again
No, laugh, yeah,
Drown and Laugh,
Your life is over!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Clowns, they scare
The children
Roll around the
The ring, The
Animals they
Want to kill
Anyone, anything
Laugh, yeah
Drown and
Laugh,
Your life is over!
Gambling with souls
Roulette on the wire
Ace is in the hole
I sink beneath the feeling
Moon is in my hands
A crooked wheel of Twenty-One
I just don't understand, no!
Laugh, yeah, drown and Laugh
Your life is over
If God is the dealer
Why do we never win?
A bloody mix of silk and mud
That starts all over again
No, laugh, yeah,
Drown and Laugh,
Your life is over!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Clowns, they scare
The children
Roll around the
The ring, The
Animals they
Want to kill
Anyone, anything
Laugh, yeah
Drown and
Laugh,
Your life is over!
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this song is the most hardcore metal ive ever heard.
You could check out megadeth, Slayer, Dethklok Anthrax, and Cannibal Corpse for some really really hevay shit.