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 stole a page from your book,
And a line from your page,
And flew into a lesbian rage.
Cursing mine and my own rotten luck,
Another nude descends a staircase to get fucked.
A city scene, darkness falls,
Now skate hard down the gallery walls.
Explore those themes,
I heard your worship formed by queens,
Hey, so is mine now.
There is a plague on,
There is a rat-tailed ensemble, burying all of our hits in the sand.
The same sand a desert uses,
The same sand a desert uses.
Now, wipe that look from your face;
The world is that which is the case.
It is okay to be seen,
Don't dethrone the drama queen
Just for putting everybody in their place.
There's a plague on,
There's a rat-tailed ensemble burying all of our hits in the sand.
The same sand a desert uses,
The same sand a desert uses.
Now, wipe that look from your face,
The world is that which is the case;
It is okay to be seen,
Don't dethrone the drama queen
Just for putting everybody in their place.
Yeah, wipe that look from your face,
The world is that which is the case.
It's okay to be seen,
Don't dethrone the drama queen
Just for putting everybody in their place.
Go, don't stay, just throw it all away.
There is you and then there is your body.
Go, don't stay, just throw it all away.
There is you and then there is your body.
Go, don't stay, just throw it all away.
There is you and then there is your body.
And a line from your page,
And flew into a lesbian rage.
Cursing mine and my own rotten luck,
Another nude descends a staircase to get fucked.
A city scene, darkness falls,
Now skate hard down the gallery walls.
Explore those themes,
I heard your worship formed by queens,
Hey, so is mine now.
There is a plague on,
There is a rat-tailed ensemble, burying all of our hits in the sand.
The same sand a desert uses,
The same sand a desert uses.
Now, wipe that look from your face;
The world is that which is the case.
It is okay to be seen,
Don't dethrone the drama queen
Just for putting everybody in their place.
There's a plague on,
There's a rat-tailed ensemble burying all of our hits in the sand.
The same sand a desert uses,
The same sand a desert uses.
Now, wipe that look from your face,
The world is that which is the case;
It is okay to be seen,
Don't dethrone the drama queen
Just for putting everybody in their place.
Yeah, wipe that look from your face,
The world is that which is the case.
It's okay to be seen,
Don't dethrone the drama queen
Just for putting everybody in their place.
Go, don't stay, just throw it all away.
There is you and then there is your body.
Go, don't stay, just throw it all away.
There is you and then there is your body.
Go, don't stay, just throw it all away.
There is you and then there is your body.
Lyrics submitted by Statbucksbabe28, edited by 101Volts
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