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.
Hello, hello, I'm just an animal
And I don't feel no pain
I know, I know, I'll be the last to go
Cuz I don't feel the same
I don't know much, I don't feel touch
I don't need anything; I don't have pride to make me fall
I don't need youth, I don't plead truth
I don't feel like offering; anyway out of here at all
I won't fade away
Hello, hello, I'm just an animal
And I don't feel no pain
I know, I know, I'll be the last to go
Cuz I don't feel the same
I don't know want, I don't want that
I just know suffering; there's nothing left behind the wall
And I've been used, I've been abused
I just feel menacing; they tore me up and let me fall
I don't feel no pain
I won't fade away
Hello, hello, I'm just an animal
And I don't feel no pain
I know, I know, I'll be the last to go
Cuz I don't feel the same
Hello, hello, I'm just an animal
I'm pathological, I'm uncontrollable
Lost in the protocol, I'm just a criminal,
I wanna make you crawl, I'm gonna burn it all
Till there's nothing left to call, Your fucking animal
And I don't feel no pain
I know, I know, I'll be the last to go
Cuz I don't feel the same
I don't know much, I don't feel touch
I don't need anything; I don't have pride to make me fall
I don't need youth, I don't plead truth
I don't feel like offering; anyway out of here at all
I won't fade away
Hello, hello, I'm just an animal
And I don't feel no pain
I know, I know, I'll be the last to go
Cuz I don't feel the same
I don't know want, I don't want that
I just know suffering; there's nothing left behind the wall
And I've been used, I've been abused
I just feel menacing; they tore me up and let me fall
I don't feel no pain
I won't fade away
Hello, hello, I'm just an animal
And I don't feel no pain
I know, I know, I'll be the last to go
Cuz I don't feel the same
Hello, hello, I'm just an animal
I'm pathological, I'm uncontrollable
Lost in the protocol, I'm just a criminal,
I wanna make you crawl, I'm gonna burn it all
Till there's nothing left to call, Your fucking animal
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did you ever get that feeling that a song is about you? thats how i felt the first time i heard this one.