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 used me for an ashtray heart
Right from the start, case of the punks
I feel like a glass shrimp,
Make invalids out of supermen
Call in a shrink and pick you up,
In a girdle,
You used me like an ashtray heart
Right from the start, case of the punks
Another day, another way
Someones had too much to think
Open up another case of the punks,
You hid behind the curtain
Waiting for me to go out
A man on a porcupine fence,
Each pillow is touted like a rock
The mother/father figure,
Send home your mother your navel
Case of the punks
You picked me out
Like an ashtray heart
Hid behind the curtain, waited for me to go out
Used me like an ashtray heart,
A man on a porcupine fence
Hit me where the lovers hang out
While they crushed me out
You used me for an ashtray heart
Look behind the curtain
You looked in the window when I went out
You used me like an ashtray heart
Brushed me off
While I was burning out.
Right from the start, case of the punks
I feel like a glass shrimp,
Make invalids out of supermen
Call in a shrink and pick you up,
In a girdle,
You used me like an ashtray heart
Right from the start, case of the punks
Another day, another way
Someones had too much to think
Open up another case of the punks,
You hid behind the curtain
Waiting for me to go out
A man on a porcupine fence,
Each pillow is touted like a rock
The mother/father figure,
Send home your mother your navel
Case of the punks
You picked me out
Like an ashtray heart
Hid behind the curtain, waited for me to go out
Used me like an ashtray heart,
A man on a porcupine fence
Hit me where the lovers hang out
While they crushed me out
You used me for an ashtray heart
Look behind the curtain
You looked in the window when I went out
You used me like an ashtray heart
Brushed me off
While I was burning out.
Lyrics submitted by Fexsiv3
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CASE OF THE PUNKS!!!