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.
Feel the earth under your feet
And walk foot follows foot into the sea
Watch your step, read the sign
Learn to swim or learn to sink
Or stand with the ocean to your neck and sunken feet
You're the mask on my face
At the masquerade painted black
You can take a place and a table if they even let you in
Feel the earth and dig it up and put yourself in the hole
When the tide comes in you'll never feel anything again
You know how a finger folds
And you know what you need to breathe
Our hands catch on everything
When we're not asleep
I drive too fast at night
Because accidents happen to other men
And not me
Walk into the sea
And walk foot follows foot into the sea
Watch your step, read the sign
Learn to swim or learn to sink
Or stand with the ocean to your neck and sunken feet
You're the mask on my face
At the masquerade painted black
You can take a place and a table if they even let you in
Feel the earth and dig it up and put yourself in the hole
When the tide comes in you'll never feel anything again
You know how a finger folds
And you know what you need to breathe
Our hands catch on everything
When we're not asleep
I drive too fast at night
Because accidents happen to other men
And not me
Walk into the sea
Lyrics submitted by y plus white girl
Michio's Death Drive Lyrics as written by Johnson Bayles
Lyrics © SONGS MUSIC PUBLISHING
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