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.
There's a little girl who says bing bing bomb
There's a little girl who says bing bing bomb
Hello
Oh, oh
There's a little boy with a spider in his hand
There's a little boy with a spider in his hand
Hello
Oh, oh
There's a little girl with the red shoes on
There's a little girl with the red shoes on
Hello
Oh, oh
There's a little boy with twenty five cents
There's a little boy with twenty five cents
Hello
Oh, oh
And there's a little girl with a tiger on her bed
There's a little girl with a tiger on her bed
Hello
Oh, oh
There's a little boy with nothin' on his mind
There's a little boy with nothin' on his mind
Hello
There's a little girl who says bing bing bomb
Hello
Oh, oh
There's a little boy with a spider in his hand
There's a little boy with a spider in his hand
Hello
Oh, oh
There's a little girl with the red shoes on
There's a little girl with the red shoes on
Hello
Oh, oh
There's a little boy with twenty five cents
There's a little boy with twenty five cents
Hello
Oh, oh
And there's a little girl with a tiger on her bed
There's a little girl with a tiger on her bed
Hello
Oh, oh
There's a little boy with nothin' on his mind
There's a little boy with nothin' on his mind
Hello
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Does it matter? It seems like the "little" songs take a simple idea and they make a song out of it, but make it feel like it has alot of meaning. I like this song. >_>