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.
I saw two shadow men on the Vallance Road
Said they'd pay me for your address
Oh, I was so bold
I said you see these two cold fingers
These crooked fingers I show
You's a way to mean no
Well they didn't like that much I can tell you
Said "Sunshine, I wouldn't wanna be in your shoes"
They chased me up two flights of stairs
Caught me in the lift how I sighed and said
"Hello," cause you're impossible
But it's just like he's in another world
He doesn't see the danger on show
Wind up like Joseph, bloody in a hole
And it's just like she's in another world
And how they suit each other oh no
But they never get close
It's impossible
Saw the same two men on the Cally Road
Said now they'd double their offer
I was so bold
To say "You see these two cold fingers"
These crooked fingers I show
Oh you's a way to mean no
But it's just like he's in another world
He doesn't see the danger on show
That he'll end up like Joseph, bloody in a hole
And it's just like she's in another world
And how they suit each other oh no
But they never get close
(Crazy, unstoppable)
But it's just like we're all in another world
How we suit each other oh no
But we never get close
That's close enough now
Said they'd pay me for your address
Oh, I was so bold
I said you see these two cold fingers
These crooked fingers I show
You's a way to mean no
Well they didn't like that much I can tell you
Said "Sunshine, I wouldn't wanna be in your shoes"
They chased me up two flights of stairs
Caught me in the lift how I sighed and said
"Hello," cause you're impossible
But it's just like he's in another world
He doesn't see the danger on show
Wind up like Joseph, bloody in a hole
And it's just like she's in another world
And how they suit each other oh no
But they never get close
It's impossible
Saw the same two men on the Cally Road
Said now they'd double their offer
I was so bold
To say "You see these two cold fingers"
These crooked fingers I show
Oh you's a way to mean no
But it's just like he's in another world
He doesn't see the danger on show
That he'll end up like Joseph, bloody in a hole
And it's just like she's in another world
And how they suit each other oh no
But they never get close
(Crazy, unstoppable)
But it's just like we're all in another world
How we suit each other oh no
But we never get close
That's close enough now
Lyrics submitted by iloveweezer
Up the Bracket Lyrics as written by Peter Doherty Carl Barat
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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I think that this song (probably unintentionally) foreshadowed the future in some ways (like a lot of Libertines songs). 'He doesn't see the danger on show'--Pete started doing drugs in the first place because he believed he was above the addiction. Just a thought.