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.
Leif Garrett! Leif Garrett!
Your pants never fit quite right. And your android ass so tightly packed into designer saran wrap. Uber man, in junkie drag, a sad, sick, and fucked up mess. Water and earth will wash away their pests.
Engines hum deep into the night on endless repeat by satellite, 20 years toward Cygnus X-1. Postcards to posterity, your memory like excrement. Cold crap in the backed up bowels of deep space.
From the boulevards of bourgeois boutiques to the fashion runways of Paris chic. I can't believe the shit we eat, for I know it goes down so hard.
Engines hum deep into the night on endless repeat by satellite, 20 years toward Cygnus X-1. The only sad remains left of you in 2362, beamed back through infinite re-run.
Ruins! Freaky funky artifacts to disco corporate anthems, a message forwarded from hell to anyone dumb enough to actually listen. Sad, sick and insane, the mechanics have always been the same for the replicon children of empire's belly.
Choose to remember for you're be remembered, the day empire falls.
Choose to remember for you'll be remembered, when autumn war winds call.
Broken children, it's not too late. The future is unwritten. Underground army, enlist today. History will serve as witness.
Your pants never fit quite right. And your android ass so tightly packed into designer saran wrap. Uber man, in junkie drag, a sad, sick, and fucked up mess. Water and earth will wash away their pests.
Engines hum deep into the night on endless repeat by satellite, 20 years toward Cygnus X-1. Postcards to posterity, your memory like excrement. Cold crap in the backed up bowels of deep space.
From the boulevards of bourgeois boutiques to the fashion runways of Paris chic. I can't believe the shit we eat, for I know it goes down so hard.
Engines hum deep into the night on endless repeat by satellite, 20 years toward Cygnus X-1. The only sad remains left of you in 2362, beamed back through infinite re-run.
Ruins! Freaky funky artifacts to disco corporate anthems, a message forwarded from hell to anyone dumb enough to actually listen. Sad, sick and insane, the mechanics have always been the same for the replicon children of empire's belly.
Choose to remember for you're be remembered, the day empire falls.
Choose to remember for you'll be remembered, when autumn war winds call.
Broken children, it's not too late. The future is unwritten. Underground army, enlist today. History will serve as witness.
Lyrics submitted by WeGaveEmHell
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