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 keeps to himself these days
Doesn't have much to talk about
But he tells himself over and again
"She'll be here soon."
Emotions are all the same
Maybe just love and lonliness
But that enlightenment doesn't help at all
It just makes it worse when she's not around
That's when the sky cries for him and
The lightning strikes
He's mesmerized
Oh, super me
You're all that I long to
Tries not to think too much
Everything makes him think of her
When reason escapes him
Love takes it's place
He's got a frame of mind
Which captures the bigger picture
But that enlightenment doesn't help at all
It just makes it worse when she's not around
That's when the sky cries for him and
The lightning strikes
He's mesmerized
If the end of the world came crashing down on him
He'd welcome it
With open arms like an old friend
And oh, super me
You're all that I long to be
Searching the skies and to my surprise
We always end up
In each other's arms
You help me to the discern
As I fall apart
You willed me to start again, again
That's when the sky cries for him
The lightning strikes him down
With open arms like an old friend
Doesn't have much to talk about
But he tells himself over and again
"She'll be here soon."
Emotions are all the same
Maybe just love and lonliness
But that enlightenment doesn't help at all
It just makes it worse when she's not around
That's when the sky cries for him and
The lightning strikes
He's mesmerized
Oh, super me
You're all that I long to
Tries not to think too much
Everything makes him think of her
When reason escapes him
Love takes it's place
He's got a frame of mind
Which captures the bigger picture
But that enlightenment doesn't help at all
It just makes it worse when she's not around
That's when the sky cries for him and
The lightning strikes
He's mesmerized
If the end of the world came crashing down on him
He'd welcome it
With open arms like an old friend
And oh, super me
You're all that I long to be
Searching the skies and to my surprise
We always end up
In each other's arms
You help me to the discern
As I fall apart
You willed me to start again, again
That's when the sky cries for him
The lightning strikes him down
With open arms like an old friend
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Super me!