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.
Our love is all that we ever had
Our love is all that we'll ever have
Boys and girls, guys and dolls
You were finding faith in bathroom stalls
And broken beds, spring fractured spines
Fall for the right kids at all the wrong times
And in a world of sluts, we keep this wet dream alive
Yeah, our drought is drying out
You go nowhere in a nowhere town and no one's listening to the sound
Of breaking down and breaking out is just wishful thinking
We're taking walks around the hearts and homes we'll never own
You go nowhere in a nowhere town and no one's listening to the sound
Of breaking down and breaking out is just wishful thinking
You go nowhere in a nowhere town
We're growing up by falling down
We love the songs because we live the songs
In condemned flats between the rights and wrongs
And all we know is that we'll never know
We love the hearts but the hearts love us even more
Desperate and true, thinking of you
Borrowed and blue, sinking with you
Keep loving, keep breathing, keep living
Our love is all that we'll ever have
Boys and girls, guys and dolls
You were finding faith in bathroom stalls
And broken beds, spring fractured spines
Fall for the right kids at all the wrong times
And in a world of sluts, we keep this wet dream alive
Yeah, our drought is drying out
You go nowhere in a nowhere town and no one's listening to the sound
Of breaking down and breaking out is just wishful thinking
We're taking walks around the hearts and homes we'll never own
You go nowhere in a nowhere town and no one's listening to the sound
Of breaking down and breaking out is just wishful thinking
You go nowhere in a nowhere town
We're growing up by falling down
We love the songs because we live the songs
In condemned flats between the rights and wrongs
And all we know is that we'll never know
We love the hearts but the hearts love us even more
Desperate and true, thinking of you
Borrowed and blue, sinking with you
Keep loving, keep breathing, keep living
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we love the songs because we live the songs in condemned flats between the rights and wrongs
i love this song !