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.
All you'd show is love
Yet all I'd see is hate
You know that something's wrong
I know I can't relate
Wind is blowing pleasure by
And I don't feel a thing
Emotion fills the sky
Erosion clouds my brain
I can't seem to breathe in
I can't seem to see then
Through the deafening silence of pain
- Left all alone again
Imprisoned by this selfish reign
- with no more rules to bend
I think I'm breaking down
And if I had just one more day
I'd tell you everything
Everything I had to say
I miss you
And if I had just one more day
I'd show you one last thing
Honesty believes in fate
'cause fate is what I've gained
Strength has come and gone
So now I lie in wait
The void is never long
The core belief in fate
I've been down this lonely road
Before I know the way
As situations change
The answers will remain
Now I've got a reason
As time has brought new seasons
To carry me from this pain
- Left all alone again
Living proof of selfless gain
- With no more rules to bend
I think I'm breaking down
And if I had just one more day
I'd tell you everything
Everything I had to say
I miss you
And if I had just one more day
I'd show you one last thing
Honesty believes in fate
'cause fate is what I've gained
Fate is what I've gained!
I've been down this road
The answer's still the same
And if I had just one more day
I'd tell you everything
Everything I had to say
I miss you
And if I had just one more day
I'd show you one last thing
Honesty believes in fate
'cause fate is what I've gained
- and if I had just one more day
Fate is what I've gained
- and if I had just one more day
Fate is what I've gained
And if I had just one more day
Yet all I'd see is hate
You know that something's wrong
I know I can't relate
Wind is blowing pleasure by
And I don't feel a thing
Emotion fills the sky
Erosion clouds my brain
I can't seem to breathe in
I can't seem to see then
Through the deafening silence of pain
- Left all alone again
Imprisoned by this selfish reign
- with no more rules to bend
I think I'm breaking down
And if I had just one more day
I'd tell you everything
Everything I had to say
I miss you
And if I had just one more day
I'd show you one last thing
Honesty believes in fate
'cause fate is what I've gained
Strength has come and gone
So now I lie in wait
The void is never long
The core belief in fate
I've been down this lonely road
Before I know the way
As situations change
The answers will remain
Now I've got a reason
As time has brought new seasons
To carry me from this pain
- Left all alone again
Living proof of selfless gain
- With no more rules to bend
I think I'm breaking down
And if I had just one more day
I'd tell you everything
Everything I had to say
I miss you
And if I had just one more day
I'd show you one last thing
Honesty believes in fate
'cause fate is what I've gained
Fate is what I've gained!
I've been down this road
The answer's still the same
And if I had just one more day
I'd tell you everything
Everything I had to say
I miss you
And if I had just one more day
I'd show you one last thing
Honesty believes in fate
'cause fate is what I've gained
- and if I had just one more day
Fate is what I've gained
- and if I had just one more day
Fate is what I've gained
And if I had just one more day
Lyrics submitted by jimfear14
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i do love this song...it's fucking great. i agree with oneeye-2..the beginning does sound similar to the beginning of of paperthin hymns...yea but i think it means what the rest of you said. he lost someone and he wishes he could have said something to them before they died/left