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.
Sickly!
Symptoms complete
Full on replete
Dismiss the rest
You threw your life
Behest
Ruptured!
Mainline
Imbibe
Inflict
In pain
Suicide
You left us all
Self-infliction
In pain mainline
Destroy, self-loathe
Destroy, self-loathe
Did not have to end
It all could have changed
So glamorous
So glamorous
Suffocating!
You died on the floor of a bathroom
Ruptured and bloated
With your insides destroyed
With your insides destroyed
3x3 we carried you body that day
We put you in the ground
But no one saw the truth
Because others followed after
You died on the floor of a bathroom
Ruptured and bloated
With your insides destroyed
With your insides destroyed
You left us all
Self-infliction
You left us all
Self-infliction
Destroyed, destroyed, destroyed, destroyed
Symptoms complete
Full on replete
Dismiss the rest
You threw your life
Behest
Ruptured!
Mainline
Imbibe
Inflict
In pain
Suicide
You left us all
Self-infliction
In pain mainline
Destroy, self-loathe
Destroy, self-loathe
Did not have to end
It all could have changed
So glamorous
So glamorous
Suffocating!
You died on the floor of a bathroom
Ruptured and bloated
With your insides destroyed
With your insides destroyed
3x3 we carried you body that day
We put you in the ground
But no one saw the truth
Because others followed after
You died on the floor of a bathroom
Ruptured and bloated
With your insides destroyed
With your insides destroyed
You left us all
Self-infliction
You left us all
Self-infliction
Destroyed, destroyed, destroyed, destroyed
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This song is about someone who complete suicide