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.
Mustard!
Behold!...
The story that I'd rather not have told,
of a mustard mayhem
I'm riding,
and running in my sleep, from Mustard Man
he chases me to the last sunrise,
and fucks me in his mom's minivan
Mustard Man, woo woo bow down
I must serve you,
I am on the ground
Bowing to your mustard shit,
Lick your ass to the end of it,
I will march for you Mustard Man,
I'll stay true
Woo woo when I shit,
when I try to run away
Mustard Man whipped me with his mustard chain
and his mustard seeds
pissed in my face and I bleed
mustard disease
you think it's hot, but try on these jeans
made of wicker, and they got horse fleas
mustard in my dreams, woo
Mustard God I'm on my knees,
bowing for you it's hot
I feel pleasure wont you please serve me
twice tonight I need woo woo
mustard seeds like I said up in my head
jam them with some sugar cane
pleasure's so good and I feel the pain
woo woo mustard makes me cry
I hate it
Suicide
I'd rather die than
eat mustard flies and a bowl of shit stained snot and die
You don't know how it feels to have a girl break my heart
And rip it out into the mustard... SHE'D RATHER FUCK MUSTARD
Never!
Mustard God
Don't take away from me
the pleasure of a young girl
who I'm gonna marry
I got a broken heart from a mustard girl
she rocked my world, and now I'm allergic
and on my knees and perverted
Mustard downloads in my ROM
I need a piece of shit
A log can't fill my head with mustard
woo woo
I don't need that, I like custard oooh
Mustard
marching for Mr Mustard
Behold!...
The story that I'd rather not have told,
of a mustard mayhem
I'm riding,
and running in my sleep, from Mustard Man
he chases me to the last sunrise,
and fucks me in his mom's minivan
Mustard Man, woo woo bow down
I must serve you,
I am on the ground
Bowing to your mustard shit,
Lick your ass to the end of it,
I will march for you Mustard Man,
I'll stay true
Woo woo when I shit,
when I try to run away
Mustard Man whipped me with his mustard chain
and his mustard seeds
pissed in my face and I bleed
mustard disease
you think it's hot, but try on these jeans
made of wicker, and they got horse fleas
mustard in my dreams, woo
Mustard God I'm on my knees,
bowing for you it's hot
I feel pleasure wont you please serve me
twice tonight I need woo woo
mustard seeds like I said up in my head
jam them with some sugar cane
pleasure's so good and I feel the pain
woo woo mustard makes me cry
I hate it
Suicide
I'd rather die than
eat mustard flies and a bowl of shit stained snot and die
You don't know how it feels to have a girl break my heart
And rip it out into the mustard... SHE'D RATHER FUCK MUSTARD
Never!
Mustard God
Don't take away from me
the pleasure of a young girl
who I'm gonna marry
I got a broken heart from a mustard girl
she rocked my world, and now I'm allergic
and on my knees and perverted
Mustard downloads in my ROM
I need a piece of shit
A log can't fill my head with mustard
woo woo
I don't need that, I like custard oooh
Mustard
marching for Mr Mustard
Lyrics submitted by Venadium
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