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've said this before no matter how hard I try.
I can't stop being bored while this world passes by.
So!
These people, they just have no meaning.
We've lost it all in hopeless dreaming.
Well I've just lost my grip!
Paint it black and just forget me.
This world just makes me sick!
Turn the pleading into envy.
I'm just stunned believing that nothing's to be said.
What are we achieving with the bull shit that was fed.
I don't want to hear what's said or live to see the dead.
Cause what comes to me is a resignation for me.
A resignation for me.
A resignation for me.
I've said this before no matter how hard I try.
I can't stop being bored while this world passes by.
Don't tell me what's wrong with something that we don't even understand.
My brain's just too hollow!
Some might say we're all to blame.
The outside's so unknown!
I don't want you to complain.
I can't find the answers to see through parity.
I can't find my anger.
It's a resignation for me.
A resignation for me. [Repeat: x4]
I can't stop being bored while this world passes by.
So!
These people, they just have no meaning.
We've lost it all in hopeless dreaming.
Well I've just lost my grip!
Paint it black and just forget me.
This world just makes me sick!
Turn the pleading into envy.
I'm just stunned believing that nothing's to be said.
What are we achieving with the bull shit that was fed.
I don't want to hear what's said or live to see the dead.
Cause what comes to me is a resignation for me.
A resignation for me.
A resignation for me.
I've said this before no matter how hard I try.
I can't stop being bored while this world passes by.
Don't tell me what's wrong with something that we don't even understand.
My brain's just too hollow!
Some might say we're all to blame.
The outside's so unknown!
I don't want you to complain.
I can't find the answers to see through parity.
I can't find my anger.
It's a resignation for me.
A resignation for me. [Repeat: x4]
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Deryck said he gives songs names that have nothing to do with the song, but maybe this one does I'm not sure.