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.
You wasted it, you fell asleep
It was not late, you missed the point
You wasted it, you fell asleep
It was not late, you missed the point
You wasted it, you fell asleep
It was not late, you missed the point
You thought that you could disappear
You thought it easier to be here
You thought that you could disappear
You thought it easier to be here
You wasted it, you fell asleep
It was not late, you missed the point
Don't ask me for alm, don't ask me for alms
Don't ask me to follow you anywhere, don't ask me for alms
All aboard at port be, hurry hurry hurry hurry hurry
All aboard at port be, hurry hurry hurry hurry hurry
When you get to port see you will be happy
When you get to port see you will be happy
Happy happy happy happy happy happy happy no
Don't put me in your arms, don't put me in you're arms
Don't ask me to follow you anywhere, don't ask me for alms
Don't ask me for alms, don't ask me for alms
Don't ask me for alms, don't ask me for alms
It was not late, you missed the point
You wasted it, you fell asleep
It was not late, you missed the point
You wasted it, you fell asleep
It was not late, you missed the point
You thought that you could disappear
You thought it easier to be here
You thought that you could disappear
You thought it easier to be here
You wasted it, you fell asleep
It was not late, you missed the point
Don't ask me for alm, don't ask me for alms
Don't ask me to follow you anywhere, don't ask me for alms
All aboard at port be, hurry hurry hurry hurry hurry
All aboard at port be, hurry hurry hurry hurry hurry
When you get to port see you will be happy
When you get to port see you will be happy
Happy happy happy happy happy happy happy no
Don't put me in your arms, don't put me in you're arms
Don't ask me to follow you anywhere, don't ask me for alms
Don't ask me for alms, don't ask me for alms
Don't ask me for alms, don't ask me for alms
Lyrics submitted by beastlordy
Alms Lyrics as written by David Craig Barry Hyde
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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best song on the album
i don't think this song is really about anything. dude just don't want people to ask him for alms.