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.
You make it so easy to run
Well, I'm still crawling, I'm still crawling
Now I'm game for the feeding chain
And they're still scraping, they're still clawing
Taking measures to see myself
But I seem to forfeit all my findings
It's not easy to take these steps
Or to fake these breaths but the urge is blinding
And you can deny this but I won't let you
And you can defy this, it's not beneath you
And we can try this but were we meant to?
And this will define us and then we'll be through, be through
Found you with him again
Found out about everything
And you can deny this all you want
And you can pretend that you weren't caught
But this is more than you and me
This is about being deceived, being deceived
You should have waited 'til you ended this
Then you'd have nothing to confess
I thought you'd leave me next to nothing
But now you're leaving me much less, leaving me much less
And I will get through this until justice prevails
And I gave you this, for nothingness and lies
Well, I'm still crawling, I'm still crawling
Now I'm game for the feeding chain
And they're still scraping, they're still clawing
Taking measures to see myself
But I seem to forfeit all my findings
It's not easy to take these steps
Or to fake these breaths but the urge is blinding
And you can deny this but I won't let you
And you can defy this, it's not beneath you
And we can try this but were we meant to?
And this will define us and then we'll be through, be through
Found you with him again
Found out about everything
And you can deny this all you want
And you can pretend that you weren't caught
But this is more than you and me
This is about being deceived, being deceived
You should have waited 'til you ended this
Then you'd have nothing to confess
I thought you'd leave me next to nothing
But now you're leaving me much less, leaving me much less
And I will get through this until justice prevails
And I gave you this, for nothingness and lies
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Justice Prevails Lyrics as written by Christopher Andrew Carrabba Chad J. Neptune
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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