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.
Eyes dried tight gotta get myself together
Need a kickstart cocktail, ten percent coffee
With a high rise family size, guaranteed to catonize
The little bit of brain I got a-hanging on from last night
I need a double take, a-just to get awake
To try and counteract the hollow feeling nature makes
It's gonna work a treat, gonna get me on my feet
It's a teasing little tonic with a kick like a mule and a skip on the beat
[Chorus]
It ain't right, it ain't wrong, I need a bomb, I need a caffeine bomb
Too sweet, a-too strong, I need a bomb, I need a caffeine bomb
I need a bomb, I need a caffeine bomb
I need a bomb, I need a ca-ca-ca-ca-caffeine bomb
Overdo the sugar and the coffee and the whiskey
In my biggest mug 'til the varnish starts to melt
I gotta wake up shake any webbing I'm a-shedding
Any grogginess I felt before I sweated all the poison from my body to my quilt
[Chorus]
And it's been too long, I need a bomb, I need a caffeine bomb
What a buzz, what a song, I need a bomb, I need a caffeine bomb
I need a bomb, I need a caffeine bomb
I need a bomb, I need a ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-caffeine bomb
Hangover, so hung over, pour me a doctor, send it over
Something that'll stop my legs from shaking, something that'll stop my head from aching
Hangover, so hung over, breath of a juiced up holy roller pounding
Baby can't you see I shitting brown water
Well it's a case of easy come and easy go
I need a caffeine bomb to wake me in the morning
I need a caffeine bomb to get me to the show
Oh no, I think I'm gonna throw (bleurgh!)
Hands all sticky and I'm spilling all the whiskey on
Myself, my friends, my dog, my floor, my God, my head feels like something crawled inside it
And the medicine I ordered should be kicking any second and I gotta be getting me more
[Chorus]
A-let's go, let's get it on, I need a bomb, I need a caffeine bomb
Faye Wray, King Kong, I need a bomb, I need a caffeine bomb
I need a bomb, I need a caffeine bomb
I need a bomb, I need a ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-caffeine bomb
[Repeat: x4]
I need a caffeine bomb
Need a kickstart cocktail, ten percent coffee
With a high rise family size, guaranteed to catonize
The little bit of brain I got a-hanging on from last night
I need a double take, a-just to get awake
To try and counteract the hollow feeling nature makes
It's gonna work a treat, gonna get me on my feet
It's a teasing little tonic with a kick like a mule and a skip on the beat
[Chorus]
It ain't right, it ain't wrong, I need a bomb, I need a caffeine bomb
Too sweet, a-too strong, I need a bomb, I need a caffeine bomb
I need a bomb, I need a caffeine bomb
I need a bomb, I need a ca-ca-ca-ca-caffeine bomb
Overdo the sugar and the coffee and the whiskey
In my biggest mug 'til the varnish starts to melt
I gotta wake up shake any webbing I'm a-shedding
Any grogginess I felt before I sweated all the poison from my body to my quilt
[Chorus]
And it's been too long, I need a bomb, I need a caffeine bomb
What a buzz, what a song, I need a bomb, I need a caffeine bomb
I need a bomb, I need a caffeine bomb
I need a bomb, I need a ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-caffeine bomb
Hangover, so hung over, pour me a doctor, send it over
Something that'll stop my legs from shaking, something that'll stop my head from aching
Hangover, so hung over, breath of a juiced up holy roller pounding
Baby can't you see I shitting brown water
Well it's a case of easy come and easy go
I need a caffeine bomb to wake me in the morning
I need a caffeine bomb to get me to the show
Oh no, I think I'm gonna throw (bleurgh!)
Hands all sticky and I'm spilling all the whiskey on
Myself, my friends, my dog, my floor, my God, my head feels like something crawled inside it
And the medicine I ordered should be kicking any second and I gotta be getting me more
[Chorus]
A-let's go, let's get it on, I need a bomb, I need a caffeine bomb
Faye Wray, King Kong, I need a bomb, I need a caffeine bomb
I need a bomb, I need a caffeine bomb
I need a bomb, I need a ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-caffeine bomb
[Repeat: x4]
I need a caffeine bomb
Lyrics submitted by GodHatesACoward
Caffeine Bomb Lyrics as written by David Leslie Walls
Lyrics © CONEXION MEDIA GROUP, INC., Downtown Music Publishing
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