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'm enlisting, overseas aid
Need assisting, help with a maid
Get the expert, on mademoiselles
He could diffuse, any bombshell
If I could only be tough like him
Then I could win
My own, small, battle of the sexes
Sgt. Rock is going to help me
Make the girl mine
Keep her stood in line
And Sgt. Rock is going to help me
Make the girl mine
Keep her stood in line
And make the girl mine, wave the victory sign
I'm invading, territories
Girls are foreign and strange to me
Get the expert, at kissing and stuff
While he stays easy, when things get rough
If I could only be tough like him
Then I could win
My own, small, battle of the sexes
And Sgt. Rock is going to help me
Make the girl mine
Keep her stood in line
And Sgt. Rock is going to help me
Make the girl mine
Keep her stood in line
And make the girl mine, wave the victory sign
Sometimes relationships don't go as planned
Some girls can make themselves so cold
A no-mans land
If I could only be tough like him
Then I could win
My own, small, battle of the sexes
Sgt. Rock is going to help me
Make the girl mine
Keep her stood in line
And Sgt. Rock is going to help me
Make the girl mine
Keep her stood in line
Sgt. Rock is going to help me
Make the girl mine
Keep her stood in line
Sgt. Rock is going to help me
Make the girl mine
Keep her stood in line
Make the girl mine, wave the victory sign
Need assisting, help with a maid
Get the expert, on mademoiselles
He could diffuse, any bombshell
If I could only be tough like him
Then I could win
My own, small, battle of the sexes
Sgt. Rock is going to help me
Make the girl mine
Keep her stood in line
And Sgt. Rock is going to help me
Make the girl mine
Keep her stood in line
And make the girl mine, wave the victory sign
I'm invading, territories
Girls are foreign and strange to me
Get the expert, at kissing and stuff
While he stays easy, when things get rough
If I could only be tough like him
Then I could win
My own, small, battle of the sexes
And Sgt. Rock is going to help me
Make the girl mine
Keep her stood in line
And Sgt. Rock is going to help me
Make the girl mine
Keep her stood in line
And make the girl mine, wave the victory sign
Sometimes relationships don't go as planned
Some girls can make themselves so cold
A no-mans land
If I could only be tough like him
Then I could win
My own, small, battle of the sexes
Sgt. Rock is going to help me
Make the girl mine
Keep her stood in line
And Sgt. Rock is going to help me
Make the girl mine
Keep her stood in line
Sgt. Rock is going to help me
Make the girl mine
Keep her stood in line
Sgt. Rock is going to help me
Make the girl mine
Keep her stood in line
Make the girl mine, wave the victory sign
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no comments? yet a major hit??? i wonder if sgt. rock helps woman with there love life?