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.
I'm gonna spend another night all by myself
Like a loser on the outside looking in
No one cares if I disappear and don't come back
Cause the only friends I have are in my head
And I know that I'm alive but I feel dead
I want to be that guy that gets the girl and saves the world
Then everyone would want to be like me, be like me
I want to be that guy that's got it made gets overpaid
Then everyone would want to be like me, be like me
Confidence and ego trips I never took
You'll never know the places that I've been
Who is gonna sell me a miracle
Cause every star I've wished on fades away
And my universe gets dimmer every day
I want to be that guy that gets the girl and saves the world
Then everyone would want to be like me, be like me
I want to be that guy that's got it made gets overpaid
Then everyone would want to be like me, be like me
Who am I to blame
There's nothing I can change
Everything's the same
Like a loser on the outside looking in
No one cares if I disappear and don't come back
Cause the only friends I have are in my head
And I know that I'm alive but I feel dead
I want to be that guy that gets the girl and saves the world
Then everyone would want to be like me, be like me
I want to be that guy that's got it made gets overpaid
Then everyone would want to be like me, be like me
Confidence and ego trips I never took
You'll never know the places that I've been
Who is gonna sell me a miracle
Cause every star I've wished on fades away
And my universe gets dimmer every day
I want to be that guy that gets the girl and saves the world
Then everyone would want to be like me, be like me
I want to be that guy that's got it made gets overpaid
Then everyone would want to be like me, be like me
Who am I to blame
There's nothing I can change
Everything's the same
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