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.
Losing a whole year
Losing a whole year
I remember you and me used to spend
The whole goddamned day in bed
Losing a whole year
Hiding in your room we'd lay like dogs
And the phone would ring like a joke that's left unsaid
Losing a whole year
Rich daddy left you with a parachute
Your voice sounds like money and your face is cute
But your daddy left you with no love
You touch everything with a velvet glove and
Now you want to try your life of sin
You want to be down with the down and in
Always copping my truths
I kind of get the feeling like I'm being used
And now I realize that you never heard
One goddamned word I ever said
Losing a whole year
Losing a whole year
I took your stuff and put it in the basement
When I found out what the smile on your face meant
I seen you pop that check
Craning your neck at my car wreck
And it always seems the juice used to flow
In the car, in the kitchen, you were good to go
Now we're stuck with the tube
A sink full of dishes and some aqua lube
And I remember you and me used to spend
The whole goddamn day in bed
Hey, bye
Losing a whole year
If it's not the defense then you're on the attack
When you start talking I hear the Prozac
Convinced you found your place
With the pierced queer teens in cyber space
When you were yourself there was tasted sweet
Sours into a routine deceit
Well this drama is a bore
And I don't want to play no more
Whoa why, whoa why
Losing a whole year
I remember you and me used to spend
The whole goddamn day in bed
Hey, bye
Hey, bye
Losing a whole year
I remember you and me used to spend
The whole goddamned day in bed
Losing a whole year
Hiding in your room we'd lay like dogs
And the phone would ring like a joke that's left unsaid
Losing a whole year
Rich daddy left you with a parachute
Your voice sounds like money and your face is cute
But your daddy left you with no love
You touch everything with a velvet glove and
Now you want to try your life of sin
You want to be down with the down and in
Always copping my truths
I kind of get the feeling like I'm being used
And now I realize that you never heard
One goddamned word I ever said
Losing a whole year
Losing a whole year
I took your stuff and put it in the basement
When I found out what the smile on your face meant
I seen you pop that check
Craning your neck at my car wreck
And it always seems the juice used to flow
In the car, in the kitchen, you were good to go
Now we're stuck with the tube
A sink full of dishes and some aqua lube
And I remember you and me used to spend
The whole goddamn day in bed
Hey, bye
Losing a whole year
If it's not the defense then you're on the attack
When you start talking I hear the Prozac
Convinced you found your place
With the pierced queer teens in cyber space
When you were yourself there was tasted sweet
Sours into a routine deceit
Well this drama is a bore
And I don't want to play no more
Whoa why, whoa why
Losing a whole year
I remember you and me used to spend
The whole goddamn day in bed
Hey, bye
Hey, bye
Lyrics submitted by DonutDH, edited by heisenberg69
Losing a Whole Year Lyrics as written by Stephan Jenkins Kevin Cadogan
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Its about havin a girlfriend that dont like being couped up and goes nuts. 'I remember when you and me used to spend the whole god damn day in bed' He's remembering a time when it was just about her and him. Now shes 'convinced shes found her place with pierced queer teens in cyberspace.' bascially shes startin to hang out with weird fucks. Not only that but shes addicted to Prozac medicine, "when you start talkin I here the Prozac'. 'When you were yourself it was tastin sweet, but now thats turned into a routine deciet, well this drama is a bore, and I dont wanna play no more.' Pretty self-explanetory.