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.
Hi, I'm Evan, and this is my heart
I am Amy, and this is my heart
I am Chris, this is my heart
I am Torq, this is my heart
How the heart bends
And summer she sends
A sky that refuses to die
With weeds of the sea
That wrap 'round our knees
And a sun too hot to go down
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
How the heart bends
And summer she sends
A sky that refuses to die
With weeds of the sea
That wrap round our knees
And a sun too hot to go down
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
I am Amy, and this is my heart
I am Chris, this is my heart
I am Torq, this is my heart
How the heart bends
And summer she sends
A sky that refuses to die
With weeds of the sea
That wrap 'round our knees
And a sun too hot to go down
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
How the heart bends
And summer she sends
A sky that refuses to die
With weeds of the sea
That wrap round our knees
And a sun too hot to go down
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
You come around
Lyrics submitted by soapboxracer
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i think that this song shows the direction of Heart perfectly. After the "this is my heart" intro, it starts into a song that sounds like it could come from Nightsongs, but then hushes into the strings and piano of something else entirely. Like they're saying that album was the Head, this is the Heart.