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.
fill up your mouth with smoke hourly
and wash it down into your body
these are directions that come with a tag
you'll jerk awake when your name's called
you can't tell the difference
between seeing something new and breaking what you already have
and wash it down into your body
these are directions that come with a tag
you'll jerk awake when your name's called
you can't tell the difference
between seeing something new and breaking what you already have
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This song is about someone who is killing themselves metaphorically (hence the reference to smoking). I think the third line is saying that if you keep going in this direction you'll end up in a body bag with a tag on your toe, and you'll jerk awake when your time comes because you didn't even see it coming. This goes along with this album's theme of different people who are greedy, have no integrity, are two-faced, etc.