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.
Just shut your eyes
and I won’t bleed till you’re sleeping
Lock the heart behind as we are all smiling
Like a rush in the rain
but I’m not freezing
This is easier for me to breathe
Cause we are your name in vein
while ripping your heart out
And I’ll repeat those words you said
last night you wished
they’d never left your lips
and I won’t bleed till you’re sleeping
Lock the heart behind as we are all smiling
Like a rush in the rain
but I’m not freezing
This is easier for me to breathe
Cause we are your name in vein
while ripping your heart out
And I’ll repeat those words you said
last night you wished
they’d never left your lips
Lyrics submitted by x_melancholy_x
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and and and and and and i'll repeattttttttttt those words you SAIDDDDDDD. Last night you wishhhhhhhedddddd they never..............
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"and i'll repeat those words you said, last night you wished they'd never left your lips"