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.
And we swim forever
Stay the same forever
I talked to you today
You didn’t seem depressed
The way I acted was
Nothing for you to test
And I feel so sad
That I’ve lost control
So many chances I
Feel like I must be wrong
I’m misdirected by
Communication’s songs
And I feel so sad
That you wanted more
And we swim forever
Stay the same forever
And we’re wasting over
Barren something
Over nothing
Like before
We’ve been sidelined
Resurrected
Don’t deserve it
And what more
And we’re wasting over
Barren something
Over nothing
Like before
We’ve been sidelined
Resurrected
Don’t deserve it
And what more
And we swim forever
(And we swim forever)
And we swim forever
(And we swim forever)
Wait until you
Some know
What’d you say
Stay the same forever
I talked to you today
You didn’t seem depressed
The way I acted was
Nothing for you to test
And I feel so sad
That I’ve lost control
So many chances I
Feel like I must be wrong
I’m misdirected by
Communication’s songs
And I feel so sad
That you wanted more
And we swim forever
Stay the same forever
And we’re wasting over
Barren something
Over nothing
Like before
We’ve been sidelined
Resurrected
Don’t deserve it
And what more
And we’re wasting over
Barren something
Over nothing
Like before
We’ve been sidelined
Resurrected
Don’t deserve it
And what more
And we swim forever
(And we swim forever)
And we swim forever
(And we swim forever)
Wait until you
Some know
What’d you say
Lyrics submitted by risefromtheashes
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i think this song is about being stuck in a shitty relationship but cant seem to get out of it, or else trying really hard for something yet can't seem to get it.