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.
How do you do all the things
I'll never do to you?
I'll know why you do the things
I'll never do
Sorry 'bout the fire
Sorry 'bout the torch
Sorry I had to have my revenge
Send it in a note
Said you cannot go
Say you were sick, you cant get dressed
Color me on fire
Color me a liar
My dress is the prettiest
Cover me in burns
Everyone take a turn
Color me humiliated
My oh my baby you do reflect the sun
And my oh my baby you were almost golden
My oh my oh how you do reflect the sun
My oh my baby you were almost golden
Sorry 'bout the fire
Sorry 'bout the torch
Sorry i had to have my revenge
Send it in a note
Say you cannot come
Say you are still tied to the bed
When's he gonna come
When's he gonna spring
When's he gonna claw up in for blow
When's he gonna come
screaming bombs away
When's he gonna kill me in this room
My oh my he's in his glory yeah
Watch him tearing me down with such a vengeance
Hold on to me
Yeah baby hold, hold on tight
Yeah we'll just see which one of us gets out alive
Oh Honey how do you do all the things I'll never do to you?
Cover me in fire
Cover me in lies
That's just your entertainment
Sorry I'm obsessed
Walk a block behind
I was stuck and you stormed in a daze
My oh my baby you do reflect the sun
And my oh my baby you were almost golden
My oh my oh how you do reflect the sun
My oh my baby you were almost golden
I'll never do to you?
I'll know why you do the things
I'll never do
Sorry 'bout the fire
Sorry 'bout the torch
Sorry I had to have my revenge
Send it in a note
Said you cannot go
Say you were sick, you cant get dressed
Color me on fire
Color me a liar
My dress is the prettiest
Cover me in burns
Everyone take a turn
Color me humiliated
My oh my baby you do reflect the sun
And my oh my baby you were almost golden
My oh my oh how you do reflect the sun
My oh my baby you were almost golden
Sorry 'bout the fire
Sorry 'bout the torch
Sorry i had to have my revenge
Send it in a note
Say you cannot come
Say you are still tied to the bed
When's he gonna come
When's he gonna spring
When's he gonna claw up in for blow
When's he gonna come
screaming bombs away
When's he gonna kill me in this room
My oh my he's in his glory yeah
Watch him tearing me down with such a vengeance
Hold on to me
Yeah baby hold, hold on tight
Yeah we'll just see which one of us gets out alive
Oh Honey how do you do all the things I'll never do to you?
Cover me in fire
Cover me in lies
That's just your entertainment
Sorry I'm obsessed
Walk a block behind
I was stuck and you stormed in a daze
My oh my baby you do reflect the sun
And my oh my baby you were almost golden
My oh my oh how you do reflect the sun
My oh my baby you were almost golden
Lyrics submitted by almostmanda
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It's about Ed Norton.
This song's really pretty.
the version I have doesn't match the first verse on here :S still a funky song
her way with words..
i love ms.courtney, and this song!!!
my favourite :)
and yeah i think some of the lyrics are wrong
isnt this "My dress is the prettiest" "murderess is the prettiest"? i think thats such a powerful lyric, so like bitter i cant explain like saying she's got away with doing what they think she did, but she knows she didnt actually do it, and is saying they are all surprised she is the 'best', or prettiest, although they think its like a cover for how 'evil' she is inside, and it is just so incredibly, for want of a better word, emotional!
or, it could be nothing to do with that.
sooo before i say this i just want everyone to know that i DO NOT believe that courtney killed kurt, but i can see how lyrics in this song are really ironic towards that conspiracy theory
Sorry 'bout the fire Sorry 'bout the torch Sorry i had to have my revenge (conspiracy theory says that the time before kurts death was a rough patch for their marraige, and that they were in the middle of geting a divorce, but courtney really didnt want one so her "revenge" was to kill him) Send it in a note ( kurt sent courtney a note a week or so before he died and said he was leaving her and frances) Suid you cannot go (she said you can't leave me and yoru baby,and i wont let you leave) Say you were sick, you cant get dressed (i dont know for sure about this one but i think this has to do with kurts addiction) Come on be on fire Come on be a liar My dress is the prettiest (sounds like murderess is the prettiest, which might be a play on words, her reffering to the fact that shes a murderer and she got away with it) Cover me in burns (about all the people who accused her of murder) Everyone take a turn (agian, about people criticizing her) I'm already humiliated (she already feels self guilt, people giving her shit doesnt make a difference)
My oh my he's in his gloriousness (saying that kurts in his glory, he wanted to be dead) Watch him tear me down with such a vengeance (wherever he is, he is enjoying the fact that she is suffering) Hold on to me Yeah baby hold hold on tight (refers to how even though she hates him she still loves him and misses him refer to song hold on to me) Yeah well just see which one of us gets out alive (sarcastic, saying your dead, you lost this battle, fuck you)
agian i dont believe courtney killed kurt at all. i love both nirvana and hole and i love kurt and courtney, they are both fucking awesome
and btw, i think these lyrics are a little messed up
i also think it's meant sarcastica bout the fact that people think she killed kurt:
it think the first lines - "sorry 'bout the things I'll never do to you" - in my eyes she says sarcastic like: "sorry for something i would never do, and in your eyes i did it, somehow i know i would never do it." i know i can't explain it that good, but that's what i think about it.
am i the only one who thinks this is about a golden shower? [Color me humiliated]
I was thinking more along the lines of a ceremony like the Golden Globes or something like that hence the lyric "my dress is the prettiest" and the references to being under public scrutiny….