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.
"well show me, show me, show me how you do that trick
the one that makes me scream," she said
"the one that makes me laugh," she said,
and threw her arms around my head
"well show me how you do it
and i promise you, i promise that
i'll run away with you,
i'll run away with you"
we're spinning on that dizzy air
i kiss your face, and kiss your hair
i dreamed of all the different ways
i have to let her know
and scream, "why are you so far away?"
she said, "won't you ever know that i'm in love with you,
yeah, i'm in love with you."
for you, that's soft and lonely
you, lost and only
you, the strangest angels dancing in the deepest ocean
existing in the world, you're just like a dream
you're just like a dream
will daylight whip me into shape?
i must have been asleep for days
and moving lips can breathe a name
i opened up my eyes
and found myself alone, alone
alone up on the ranges
IT STOLE THE ONLY GIRL I LOVE
and drowned her deep inside of me
you, that's lost and only
you, soft and lonely
you, you're just like heaven
the one that makes me scream," she said
"the one that makes me laugh," she said,
and threw her arms around my head
"well show me how you do it
and i promise you, i promise that
i'll run away with you,
i'll run away with you"
we're spinning on that dizzy air
i kiss your face, and kiss your hair
i dreamed of all the different ways
i have to let her know
and scream, "why are you so far away?"
she said, "won't you ever know that i'm in love with you,
yeah, i'm in love with you."
for you, that's soft and lonely
you, lost and only
you, the strangest angels dancing in the deepest ocean
existing in the world, you're just like a dream
you're just like a dream
will daylight whip me into shape?
i must have been asleep for days
and moving lips can breathe a name
i opened up my eyes
and found myself alone, alone
alone up on the ranges
IT STOLE THE ONLY GIRL I LOVE
and drowned her deep inside of me
you, that's lost and only
you, soft and lonely
you, you're just like heaven
Lyrics submitted by nashional
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