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.
The next patient is not identified, period. The patient will be listed as John Doe, ID Number 369576. Date of exam 5-12-97 0200 hours paragraph
Patient history automobile accident with severe head and chest injuries, period paragraph.
Emergency computerized axial tomography of the brain without an intravenous pon-- contrast material. Period paragraph.
Multiple computerized axial tomographic scans of the brain were obtained, at one centimeter slice thickness from the base of the brain to the vertex, period. Images were filmed at both soft tissues and bone window settings period paragraph.
There is a comminuted depressed left parietal skull fracture with adjacent, extensive, left subdural hematoma, period. There is a left parietal brain contusion and-- and shift in mainline structures to the right, period paragraph.
Impression, colon: Comminuted left parietal skull fracture, period paragraph.
Left parietal subdural hematoma, period paragraph.
Left parietal brain contusion, period paragraph.
(Evil laughter)
I'm coming over there to lick your sucking balls off
This is my leprechaun and he took me magic gold
(Whimsical giggling)
Guyyys...Show me your tits!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
Is this the shit, or what?
Hey ya' better chiggity check yerself before you wreck yerself.
It can't get fresher than this.
I know it's not PC, but sometimes ya' gotta' put the smackdown on a ho.
Oh that's the Robby shiiiit
Mmm baby, I feel the juice mouse comin' from the flask ball
Mmm, mm, mmmm, baybaaa owww
I say down flounce, came from the last mount don't frame toeeee...
Revaloolay I saw the police mans there's so meaaaan.
(Snoring)
(Sorceror pinball machine sounds)
The karate kiiiid
For you to see I've been rumbling Kobra Kai
With Miyagi do karate right at my side
Not the Y, a good school! I gotta' learn karate, I HATE THIS BIKE! I HATE IT! I HA--
Daniel what are you doing to your bike!?
MOOOM! MOM! CAN'T WE GO HOME I JUST WANNA' GO HOME!
Danya'-san Dan'ya-san concentrate!
Focus powaa--
Wash ya' car paint ya' fence, paint ya' house!?
Bring my drum machine in here we can just fuck with it all one night or summin' ya' know?
Fuck with it all fancy all crazy...
Eight tracks dude you can make alot...
Eight fuckin' tracks you can make a lotta' shit
IIIINNNNCCCCUUUUBBBBUUUUSSSS
You're talkin' shit back there
B...Break it down!
(Telephone ringing, breathing)
Hello?
Patient history automobile accident with severe head and chest injuries, period paragraph.
Emergency computerized axial tomography of the brain without an intravenous pon-- contrast material. Period paragraph.
Multiple computerized axial tomographic scans of the brain were obtained, at one centimeter slice thickness from the base of the brain to the vertex, period. Images were filmed at both soft tissues and bone window settings period paragraph.
There is a comminuted depressed left parietal skull fracture with adjacent, extensive, left subdural hematoma, period. There is a left parietal brain contusion and-- and shift in mainline structures to the right, period paragraph.
Impression, colon: Comminuted left parietal skull fracture, period paragraph.
Left parietal subdural hematoma, period paragraph.
Left parietal brain contusion, period paragraph.
(Evil laughter)
I'm coming over there to lick your sucking balls off
This is my leprechaun and he took me magic gold
(Whimsical giggling)
Guyyys...Show me your tits!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
SOUGHT!
Is this the shit, or what?
Hey ya' better chiggity check yerself before you wreck yerself.
It can't get fresher than this.
I know it's not PC, but sometimes ya' gotta' put the smackdown on a ho.
Oh that's the Robby shiiiit
Mmm baby, I feel the juice mouse comin' from the flask ball
Mmm, mm, mmmm, baybaaa owww
I say down flounce, came from the last mount don't frame toeeee...
Revaloolay I saw the police mans there's so meaaaan.
(Snoring)
(Sorceror pinball machine sounds)
The karate kiiiid
For you to see I've been rumbling Kobra Kai
With Miyagi do karate right at my side
Not the Y, a good school! I gotta' learn karate, I HATE THIS BIKE! I HATE IT! I HA--
Daniel what are you doing to your bike!?
MOOOM! MOM! CAN'T WE GO HOME I JUST WANNA' GO HOME!
Danya'-san Dan'ya-san concentrate!
Focus powaa--
Wash ya' car paint ya' fence, paint ya' house!?
Bring my drum machine in here we can just fuck with it all one night or summin' ya' know?
Fuck with it all fancy all crazy...
Eight tracks dude you can make alot...
Eight fuckin' tracks you can make a lotta' shit
IIIINNNNCCCCUUUUBBBBUUUUSSSS
You're talkin' shit back there
B...Break it down!
(Telephone ringing, breathing)
Hello?
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