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.
He feel it she feel it we feel it
So round and round we go
He feel it she feel it we feel it
Ah here we go
He gon' get up she gon' get up we gon' get up
Lockin' down the joint til the playa haters shut up
Take you to outer limits flawless with no gimmicks
Imitate but can't get it
Ah here we go
My brain pattern skip a jiggawatt
No more room in the pan I cook up rhymes in a bigger pot
On a roll, what you figure got
Tricks up my sleeve you won't believe
My story weave to a thicker plot
Words leap off pages hop on stages
We crazy need to be locked in cages
Raah you feel it
Yeah I'm light skinned vanilla
Comin' atcha like a pack of gorillas
Whole planet gone ape
Understand from afar Nashville to the lone star state
Relate indicator instilled in me by men greater
This is where you belong strong you gon' be great
Flaunt clout with a scream and a shout cast out doubt
Fast like a gun blast drawn out
The sounds in leaps and bounds flush out clowns Creeps
and hounds
Foxes and wolves in sheeps gowns
I was born in the cold
Moved to the heat
Got used to the flame
Now I spit it on beat
I was raised in the womb
Groomed by Christ
With a gift to raise souls from the tomb
Please don't assume
We ain't tryna take the slot
Blow the spot
Worldwide still parta the plot
Everybody talkin' bout changinthe game
But everything I hear why'all soundin' the same
From the beats to the videos
Clothes and look
Same concept for your flows and hook
See these round here they can raise the dead
So come on everybody now bob your head
Why'all need to heed these words from the wise
Rhymes so meaty like jambalaya
Got truth for hire
Can you stand the fire
To see you come alive that's my desire now
Boy looka here
Have you ever heard a dead man talk before
You ever seen a dead man walk before
You ever heard dead man lock the flow
Like these before
We raised the qou
Now my time flip make time change
You knew another record would hit
Explode and make your brains hang
Peep my language of my dialect
Circulate like a boomerang
Man what did you expect
So round and round we go
He feel it she feel it we feel it
Ah here we go
He gon' get up she gon' get up we gon' get up
Lockin' down the joint til the playa haters shut up
Take you to outer limits flawless with no gimmicks
Imitate but can't get it
Ah here we go
My brain pattern skip a jiggawatt
No more room in the pan I cook up rhymes in a bigger pot
On a roll, what you figure got
Tricks up my sleeve you won't believe
My story weave to a thicker plot
Words leap off pages hop on stages
We crazy need to be locked in cages
Raah you feel it
Yeah I'm light skinned vanilla
Comin' atcha like a pack of gorillas
Whole planet gone ape
Understand from afar Nashville to the lone star state
Relate indicator instilled in me by men greater
This is where you belong strong you gon' be great
Flaunt clout with a scream and a shout cast out doubt
Fast like a gun blast drawn out
The sounds in leaps and bounds flush out clowns Creeps
and hounds
Foxes and wolves in sheeps gowns
I was born in the cold
Moved to the heat
Got used to the flame
Now I spit it on beat
I was raised in the womb
Groomed by Christ
With a gift to raise souls from the tomb
Please don't assume
We ain't tryna take the slot
Blow the spot
Worldwide still parta the plot
Everybody talkin' bout changinthe game
But everything I hear why'all soundin' the same
From the beats to the videos
Clothes and look
Same concept for your flows and hook
See these round here they can raise the dead
So come on everybody now bob your head
Why'all need to heed these words from the wise
Rhymes so meaty like jambalaya
Got truth for hire
Can you stand the fire
To see you come alive that's my desire now
Boy looka here
Have you ever heard a dead man talk before
You ever seen a dead man walk before
You ever heard dead man lock the flow
Like these before
We raised the qou
Now my time flip make time change
You knew another record would hit
Explode and make your brains hang
Peep my language of my dialect
Circulate like a boomerang
Man what did you expect
Lyrics submitted by munkytim18
Here We Go Lyrics as written by Richard Granville Blair Ivan A. Benavides
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love this song... great sound... anyways i think this song is about how everything in other music is just so materialistic and all show and how its not even that great. also the song talks about how they were "groomed" by Christ ad how there is much more to the world than silly music vidoe and rhyming raps.
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