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.
Patient:
For so long I trailed you
Now here I am, but I can't stand
With these jellybones
Checked myself into emergency, urgently
Drove up in my bone Camaro, thinking only about you
The doctor walked her crew of surgeons to the table where I lay
I came to, and my knee-caps were off
They were soft, I had jellybones
Doctor:
I woke him up and broke the news
After everything was sewn
I said: "Son, you've got a full-blown case
Of what is known as jellybones"
Jelly [x9]
Jellybones
But this is love so we'll survive
For so long I trailed you
Now here I am, but I can't stand
With these jellybones
Checked myself into emergency, urgently
Drove up in my bone Camaro, thinking only about you
The doctor walked her crew of surgeons to the table where I lay
I came to, and my knee-caps were off
They were soft, I had jellybones
Doctor:
I woke him up and broke the news
After everything was sewn
I said: "Son, you've got a full-blown case
Of what is known as jellybones"
Jelly [x9]
Jellybones
But this is love so we'll survive
Lyrics submitted by jsparisinflames, edited by Mellow_Harsher, salamandoor
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