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.
You're mine when you're bleeding
Divine to the end
Bid adieu to your breathing
No more pretense
I will witness your leaving
With tears in my eyes
But not for your sleeping
Just when you arise
The girl you take in you
Will now cease to be
And the woman within you
At last can be free
Passions and crime. Your lover and mine
Deep came the need. And sweet was her bleed
Through purity and through light
And the grace of the night
We sing and we dance
To our black heart romance
Head full of black. Eyes don't look back
Pale skin and cold. Lying in her fold
She came, she saw, she took anything she liked
My eyes burned with her horror
They fell, they screamed, they wept but they died
From hands of the abhorrer
We're hers when we're bleeding
The love that we feel
Amorous when she's feeding
My heart she can steal
Divine to the end
Bid adieu to your breathing
No more pretense
I will witness your leaving
With tears in my eyes
But not for your sleeping
Just when you arise
The girl you take in you
Will now cease to be
And the woman within you
At last can be free
Passions and crime. Your lover and mine
Deep came the need. And sweet was her bleed
Through purity and through light
And the grace of the night
We sing and we dance
To our black heart romance
Head full of black. Eyes don't look back
Pale skin and cold. Lying in her fold
She came, she saw, she took anything she liked
My eyes burned with her horror
They fell, they screamed, they wept but they died
From hands of the abhorrer
We're hers when we're bleeding
The love that we feel
Amorous when she's feeding
My heart she can steal
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