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.
Suicide
Don't give a fuck about this
My life or any other
Just go away and let me hang
Impossible to forgive, forget it, murderer
I'm in control
Living a lie
Make you pay at all cost for this
Love sick
Bullshit
Bring it
Decisions making themselves
I don't need you
Thorns in my side
So I die
No one
No one could ever understand
My life's exhausted
No one
No one could ever understand
This life IMN
Determined
To bring you all down with me
Break you
Beat down
No more fucking empathy
From me, for you
Fed up
I've had enough
Duality
My war
Existence
Instigated controversy
Lay down
Sell out
So wrong
Drag the blade and go away
I stand, cold cruel and lost
Take me I'm ready
No one
No one could ever understand
My life's exhausted
No one
No one could ever understand
Pressure constricting
So hard
Like a stone
Fight hard
Break bones break
No one
No one could ever understand
This life IMN
Your pressure
My time
Eroding
My life
Fight for your honesty
Fight for integrity
All work and no play
All work and no play
All work and no play waiting
All work and no play
All work and no play makes me
Sick!
I want to eat a bullet
Carve myself
Beat my face
Catotonic
Dig my brain
No pain
Suffocate
Stomach aches
Don't give a fuck
I'm out, I'm done
Fuck this shit
You've dug the hole
I'm lying in
No one could ever understand
No one could ever understand
Fight for your honesty
Fight for integrity
No one
No one could ever understand
My life's exhausted
No one
No one could ever understand
Pressure constricting
So hard
Like a stone
Fight hard
Break bones break
No one
No one could ever understand
This life, IMN
My world
My rules
My noose
My world
My rules
Fuck you
My world
My rules
My noose
My world
My rules
Fuck you
Don't give a fuck about this
My life or any other
Just go away and let me hang
Impossible to forgive, forget it, murderer
I'm in control
Living a lie
Make you pay at all cost for this
Love sick
Bullshit
Bring it
Decisions making themselves
I don't need you
Thorns in my side
So I die
No one
No one could ever understand
My life's exhausted
No one
No one could ever understand
This life IMN
Determined
To bring you all down with me
Break you
Beat down
No more fucking empathy
From me, for you
Fed up
I've had enough
Duality
My war
Existence
Instigated controversy
Lay down
Sell out
So wrong
Drag the blade and go away
I stand, cold cruel and lost
Take me I'm ready
No one
No one could ever understand
My life's exhausted
No one
No one could ever understand
Pressure constricting
So hard
Like a stone
Fight hard
Break bones break
No one
No one could ever understand
This life IMN
Your pressure
My time
Eroding
My life
Fight for your honesty
Fight for integrity
All work and no play
All work and no play
All work and no play waiting
All work and no play
All work and no play makes me
Sick!
I want to eat a bullet
Carve myself
Beat my face
Catotonic
Dig my brain
No pain
Suffocate
Stomach aches
Don't give a fuck
I'm out, I'm done
Fuck this shit
You've dug the hole
I'm lying in
No one could ever understand
No one could ever understand
Fight for your honesty
Fight for integrity
No one
No one could ever understand
My life's exhausted
No one
No one could ever understand
Pressure constricting
So hard
Like a stone
Fight hard
Break bones break
No one
No one could ever understand
This life, IMN
My world
My rules
My noose
My world
My rules
Fuck you
My world
My rules
My noose
My world
My rules
Fuck you
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what does "IMN" stand for?
It doesn't stand for anything.<br /> Listen to the song and maybe you will get it.<br /> "No one could ever understand this life IMN"<br /> no one could understand the life i'm n<br /> it's just changing the in to n<br /> and taking the ' out of i'm<br /> <br /> ...duh...