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.
He made the world a grassy road before our bare, wandering feet, and crushing the stone into the softest sand between our toes, but we're wondering where to sleep
Clever words on pages turn to fragments; Circles, points and lines, and cover them like carpets.
With graceful, meaningless ornamental designs
Come quick, you light that knows no evening, come, alone to the alone!
There are a thousand sanities worth leaving to take your madness home
You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes I see you.
Rejoice, the cleansing of my lips - rejoice, salvation of my soul!
But I still have a thousand half-loves(oh my god! I wanted to shoot myself just thinking about it)
And you think I don't mean what I say? I mean every word I say.
I threw a stone down at the reflection of my image in the water and it altogether disappeared.
I burst, it shattered me like a bullet through a bottle.
And I'm expected to believe that any of this is real.
Clever words on pages turn to fragments; Circles, points and lines, and cover them like carpets.
With graceful, meaningless ornamental designs
Come quick, you light that knows no evening, come, alone to the alone!
There are a thousand sanities worth leaving to take your madness home
You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes I see you.
Rejoice, the cleansing of my lips - rejoice, salvation of my soul!
But I still have a thousand half-loves(oh my god! I wanted to shoot myself just thinking about it)
And you think I don't mean what I say? I mean every word I say.
I threw a stone down at the reflection of my image in the water and it altogether disappeared.
I burst, it shattered me like a bullet through a bottle.
And I'm expected to believe that any of this is real.
Lyrics submitted by bullets2binary, edited by dougiefreshyes, nazabene
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it's not "obviously" about anything. people can interpret songs differently, you know.