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.
What is this cold dark room
Why can't they let me out
I can't see any resource
All I see is bars and bricks around my head
Do you think that they would hear my scream
Do you think they would wash my face
There's nothing special with me
There's nothing special at all
There's no use to resist
Unless you're flying high
So all I have is lust
So all I have is lust for a prayer
What's life and what's it for
Live your life you will never get more
And after this what is to come
And what is 101
I've always believed the words you said
But I was never convinced
I had to know if it was true
But now your lies bends out in my brain
I run around with screams of pain
Was it worth all the weeping sorrows
So what the hell am I crying for!!
Why can't they let me out
I can't see any resource
All I see is bars and bricks around my head
Do you think that they would hear my scream
Do you think they would wash my face
There's nothing special with me
There's nothing special at all
There's no use to resist
Unless you're flying high
So all I have is lust
So all I have is lust for a prayer
What's life and what's it for
Live your life you will never get more
And after this what is to come
And what is 101
I've always believed the words you said
But I was never convinced
I had to know if it was true
But now your lies bends out in my brain
I run around with screams of pain
Was it worth all the weeping sorrows
So what the hell am I crying for!!
Lyrics submitted by Bobo192
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