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 so hard for a rich girl
My heels are high
My eyes cast low
And I don't know how to love
I get too tired after midday, lately
I take it out on my good friends
But the worst stays in
Or where would I begin?
My office glows all night long
It's a nuclear show and the stars are gone
Elevator, elevator
Take me home
I'm so hard for the rich girl
Her heels so high
And my hopes so low
'cause I don't know how to love
I'll take her home after midnight
And if she likes, I'll tell her lies
How we'll be in love by the morning
I don't think she'll know
That I'm saying goodbye...
My office glows all night long
It's a nuclear show and the stars are gone
Elevator, elevator
Take me home
My office glows all night long
It's a nuclear show and the stars are gone
Elevator, elevator
Take me home
Don't go, say you'll stay
Spend a lazy sunday in my arms
I won't take anything away
Don't go, say you'll stay
Spend a lazy sunday in my arms
Don't take anything away
My heels are high
My eyes cast low
And I don't know how to love
I get too tired after midday, lately
I take it out on my good friends
But the worst stays in
Or where would I begin?
My office glows all night long
It's a nuclear show and the stars are gone
Elevator, elevator
Take me home
I'm so hard for the rich girl
Her heels so high
And my hopes so low
'cause I don't know how to love
I'll take her home after midnight
And if she likes, I'll tell her lies
How we'll be in love by the morning
I don't think she'll know
That I'm saying goodbye...
My office glows all night long
It's a nuclear show and the stars are gone
Elevator, elevator
Take me home
My office glows all night long
It's a nuclear show and the stars are gone
Elevator, elevator
Take me home
Don't go, say you'll stay
Spend a lazy sunday in my arms
I won't take anything away
Don't go, say you'll stay
Spend a lazy sunday in my arms
Don't take anything away
Lyrics submitted by soapboxracer, edited by Sladex
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the guy who's completely in love with her who just wants sex? i think its a guy whos completly "hard" at the moment. hehe.