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.
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy
I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
Little high, little low
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me
Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, ooh
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on
As if nothing really matters
Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye everybody, I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, ooh (any way the wind blows)
I don't wanna die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning very very frightening me
Gallileo, Gallileo
Gallileo, Gallileo
Gallileo Figaro, magnifico
I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come easy go, will you let me go?
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go (let him go)
Bismillah! We will not let you go (let him go)
Bismillah! We will not let you go (let me go)
Will not let you go (let me go)
Never, never, never, never let me go
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Oh, mama mia, mama mia
Mama mia, let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me
For me
For me
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
Oh, baby
Can't do this to me, baby
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here
Ooooh, ooh yeah, ooh yeah
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters to me
Any way the wind blows
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy
I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
Little high, little low
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me
Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, ooh
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on
As if nothing really matters
Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye everybody, I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, ooh (any way the wind blows)
I don't wanna die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning very very frightening me
Gallileo, Gallileo
Gallileo, Gallileo
Gallileo Figaro, magnifico
I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come easy go, will you let me go?
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go (let him go)
Bismillah! We will not let you go (let him go)
Bismillah! We will not let you go (let me go)
Will not let you go (let me go)
Never, never, never, never let me go
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Oh, mama mia, mama mia
Mama mia, let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me
For me
For me
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
Oh, baby
Can't do this to me, baby
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here
Ooooh, ooh yeah, ooh yeah
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters to me
Any way the wind blows
Lyrics submitted by kevin, edited by bucketzombie, SpongeBobForPresident2016, brae114620, nna10617, SuperAlly77, Redleader4044, LHGL
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@boredumb \r\nBohemian Rhapsody is about Freddie Mercury\'s initiation into "The Club" at Bohemian Grove in Northern California.\r\n\r\nThey get Homeless Men and "Put a Gun Against Their Head" and execute them as a Blood Sacrifice Ritual.\r\n\r\n"Nothing Really Matters" because he just Sold His Soul.\r\n\r\nPretty much EVERY Musician and Actor has done this.\r\nThey are all "Channeling" Spirits. But putting out really good music.\r\nMost songs don\'t sound like they had anything to do with Selling Your Soul.\r\nI believe they are "channeling" past Performers rather than Demons.\r\n\r\nBeyonce is possessed by "Shasha Fierce" when she goes on stage.\r\nHer own words.\r\nNiki Minaj has a spirit named Roman. When they asked how he got there. She said "They put him in me". (Satanic Ritual Abuse or a similar ritual.)\r\n\r\nAwesome song! But even better if you understand the real meaning. \r\nThank You Freddie for sharing this Very Personal experience!\r\n\r\nI really don\'t believe that these people who sold their souls should be held responsible. \r\nAfter all, they produced a Lot of AWESOME Music that would have otherwise never been.\r\n\r\nNeil Young on Amazon Music is giving the "All Seeing Eye" gesture.\r\nFreaks me out every time I see it.\r\nIn the mid 70\'s my cousin played a lot of Neil\'s earlier songs.\r\nI was blown away by how well he played with hardly any practice.\r\n\r\nThen he told me that he Painted a Symbol Inside His Guitar.\r\nThis stuff is VERY REAL!!!\r\n\r\nI had a Satanist put a curse on me in 2015 and I had a 3 month long Demon Possession. I ended up in Jail for things I don\'t remember doing.\r\nA psychic co-worker saw a Dark Shadow following me at work just before things got crazy.\r\nThis was also a Bipolar Manic Episode, from a Western point of view.\r\n\r\nJesus cured Mental Illness by casting out spirits.\r\nBut psychiatric medicines calm the mind and it\'s not attractive to spirits.\r\nSRA uses Xtreme Trauma. When your soul leaves your body, they call on the spirits or Demons to enter your body.\r\nYou can have a "split personality" with 20 or more demons and spirits.\r\n\r\nSorry, a bit off topic. But relative to the subject matter.