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.
Hear the walk, if i speak
Turn it into codes
Break it through, through the wall
Bring it up to speed
Innocence drifts away passing through pains
Just one person in a million waiting for that day
To start and end the line
To pay it all on time
Turn it into codes
Break it through, through the wall
Bring it up to speed
Innocence drifts away passing through pains
Just one person in a million waiting for that day
To start and end the line
To pay it all on time
Lyrics submitted by x_melancholy_x
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"Just one person in a million waiting for that day To start and end the line"
I honestly can't interpret this line, but the rest of the song sounds like a bunch of references to somebody's "First Time." However, this line stands out the most to me and hits me so emotionally. I don't even know what emotion it pinpoints, but it does.
i think maybe "Just one person in a million waiting for that day / To start and end the line" refers to someone waiting to be the speaker's first and only lover... "the line" perhaps referring to the list of people the speaker has/will have slept with<br /> <br /> it really hits me emotionally, too... her vocal dynamics are SO passionate<br /> <br /> perhaps the song as a whole describes the speaker's love life, namely, that she rushed into losing her virginity and later met someone who truly loves her and would have more so deserved to be her first... someone whom she would've preferred to be her first
omg just realized something else... between the lines "Bring it up to speed" and "Innocence drifts away passing through pains," is where the song goes from slow and soft to loud, fast, and intense... this instrumental section of the song could totally represent the actual duration of the speaker's "first time"...