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.
Al said goodbye to his mom and dad
for the first time in his life.
Tonight, he left the house and
walked to the waiting car outside.
Yeah, somehow he thought they'd never understand.
That nothing lasts, and he just knows that time,
is just spinning by, and life, is passing him by so fast.
And sometimes I think,
I'm the only one who feels
Like going nowhere's
Like giving up.
Sometimes I think,
I'm the only one who feels like going.
Al said to me a few days ago that he just thought
For the first time in his life.
He feels that the last few years
Were only a waste of time (only a waste of time)
Yes, it was always a compromise,
Of what he always felt inside.
His declaration,
Under the orange street light.
And sometimes I think,
I'm the only one who feels
Like going nowhere's
Like giving up.
Sometimes I think,
I'm the only one who feels like going.
Yeah-ah.
He was the one,
Who always did the right things.
He was the one who would always
Listen to everything they say.
But today, he's never going back. (Whoa-oh-oh)
And nobody said,
That there would be days like these,
There'd be days like these,
There'd be days
And sometimes I think,
I'm the only one who feels
Like going nowhere's
Like giving up.
Sometimes I think,
I'm the only one who feels
Like going nowhere's
Like giving up.
Whoa-oh,
Like giving up.
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh
Like giving up.
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh
I'm not giving up.
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh.
for the first time in his life.
Tonight, he left the house and
walked to the waiting car outside.
Yeah, somehow he thought they'd never understand.
That nothing lasts, and he just knows that time,
is just spinning by, and life, is passing him by so fast.
And sometimes I think,
I'm the only one who feels
Like going nowhere's
Like giving up.
Sometimes I think,
I'm the only one who feels like going.
Al said to me a few days ago that he just thought
For the first time in his life.
He feels that the last few years
Were only a waste of time (only a waste of time)
Yes, it was always a compromise,
Of what he always felt inside.
His declaration,
Under the orange street light.
And sometimes I think,
I'm the only one who feels
Like going nowhere's
Like giving up.
Sometimes I think,
I'm the only one who feels like going.
Yeah-ah.
He was the one,
Who always did the right things.
He was the one who would always
Listen to everything they say.
But today, he's never going back. (Whoa-oh-oh)
And nobody said,
That there would be days like these,
There'd be days like these,
There'd be days
And sometimes I think,
I'm the only one who feels
Like going nowhere's
Like giving up.
Sometimes I think,
I'm the only one who feels
Like going nowhere's
Like giving up.
Whoa-oh,
Like giving up.
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh
Like giving up.
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh
I'm not giving up.
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh.
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this reminds me of sum1 called al who i hate but also love, so its kind of an annoyin song,yet good!