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.
All the umbrellas in london
Couldn't hide my love for you
All the rain on thames-side
Couldn't stop shining through
I dreamt of you last night
Lying next to me in blue
All the umbrellas in london
Couldn't hide my love for you
Run to the window and call out my name
We'll meet where the sun goes to hide from the rain
From the rain
From the rain
All the umbrellas in london
Couldn't hide my love for you
When everyone else is hiding
Rainy sundays drunk at two
You'll whisper sweet lies to me
And one of them will be true
All the umbrellas in london
Couldn't hide my love for you
The gloom of the city at evening is still
You whisper come to me
And I always will
Always will
Always will
All the rain in this town
And still the sky is blue
Saint james square is teeming with doves
And that's what set me free
Across the darkening city
To an attic room for two
All the umbrellas in london
Couldn't hide my love for you
I counted all the lights
They don't shine as bright
They don't pierce the night
Like you do
Like you do
Like you do
Like you do
Couldn't hide my love for you
All the rain on thames-side
Couldn't stop shining through
I dreamt of you last night
Lying next to me in blue
All the umbrellas in london
Couldn't hide my love for you
Run to the window and call out my name
We'll meet where the sun goes to hide from the rain
From the rain
From the rain
All the umbrellas in london
Couldn't hide my love for you
When everyone else is hiding
Rainy sundays drunk at two
You'll whisper sweet lies to me
And one of them will be true
All the umbrellas in london
Couldn't hide my love for you
The gloom of the city at evening is still
You whisper come to me
And I always will
Always will
Always will
All the rain in this town
And still the sky is blue
Saint james square is teeming with doves
And that's what set me free
Across the darkening city
To an attic room for two
All the umbrellas in london
Couldn't hide my love for you
I counted all the lights
They don't shine as bright
They don't pierce the night
Like you do
Like you do
Like you do
Like you do
Lyrics submitted by Halloween Alaska
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This must be one of the ultimate love songs ever created.
This is the most amazing love song I have ever heard in my life.
sharply the menacing wind sweeps over the bending poplars, newly bare. a george orwell reference? keep the aspidistra flying!
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its very captivity very simplistic in telling the girl how he feels about her you are transported into his emotions for just 3-4 minutes
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