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.
I'd like to jettison your medicine
Back to where you came from
You keep your bell and edison
Away from my grandson
Stand son on your own bone
Don't forget the home that you come from
Don't let them say your name wrong
Just like larry I'll take it to the hoop
Make one false move in one fell swoop
And then I pass it to the trigger man
Bow down to the sound if you still can
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I got my beautiful dutiful cargo 250
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Plenty of misshalls and plenty of cat calls
And I can attest to the rest of the best stalls
But never have I ever made a match with sickness
Look both ways and dispatch with a quickness
Gimme some roy and gimme some speed
Gather all around to the world and read on
Til you get to the part that's righteous
It's an unbearable likeness
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I got my beautiful dutiful cargo 250
(x2)
Back to where you came from
You keep your bell and edison
Away from my grandson
Stand son on your own bone
Don't forget the home that you come from
Don't let them say your name wrong
Just like larry I'll take it to the hoop
Make one false move in one fell swoop
And then I pass it to the trigger man
Bow down to the sound if you still can
131-XHD
I got my beautiful dutiful cargo 250
(x2)
Plenty of misshalls and plenty of cat calls
And I can attest to the rest of the best stalls
But never have I ever made a match with sickness
Look both ways and dispatch with a quickness
Gimme some roy and gimme some speed
Gather all around to the world and read on
Til you get to the part that's righteous
It's an unbearable likeness
131-XHD
I got my beautiful dutiful cargo 250
(x2)
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Just like Larry I'll take it to the hoop I make one false move in one fell swoop
Obviously thats about Larry Bird
And then I pass it to the trigger man Bow down to the sound if you still can
That would be Larry Bird passing to (the trigger man) Kevin McHale
If I had a guess this song is just about life in Boston