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.
Don't let your white dress wear you out
Oh, honey it's the look in your eyes
Oh, 'cause honey I can see you
All my life
I'd hurt the ones I loved
But baby you could turn it round
She don't love me like you
She don't know what you do
And it's so hard
She don't care what you say
So just say it, say it anyway
It's so hard
All my life
Oh they tried to push me down
Oh, but baby you can turn it round
Oh, but honey I still see you
Don't let your friends tell you why
'Cause I'm a bad bad bad I'm the one
Oh, but baby you can turn it on
She don't love me like you
She don't know what you do
And it's so hard
She don't care what you say
So just say it, say it anyway
It's so hard
All those years gone by
I only want to find a way to make it hard for you
All those years gone by
I only want to find a way to make it hard for you
She'll never forget if the way that she wished she don't feel the same
I only want to find a way to make it hard for you
She'll never forget if the way that she wished she don't feel the same
I only want to find a way to make it hard for you
She'll never forget if the way that she wished she don't feel no pain
I only want to find a way to make it up to you
She'll never forget if the way that she wished she don't feel the same
No, I only want to find a way
I only want to find
I only want to find
She don't love me like you
She don't love me like you
She don't love me like you
She don't love me like you
She don't love
No she don't
Oh, honey it's the look in your eyes
Oh, 'cause honey I can see you
All my life
I'd hurt the ones I loved
But baby you could turn it round
She don't love me like you
She don't know what you do
And it's so hard
She don't care what you say
So just say it, say it anyway
It's so hard
All my life
Oh they tried to push me down
Oh, but baby you can turn it round
Oh, but honey I still see you
Don't let your friends tell you why
'Cause I'm a bad bad bad I'm the one
Oh, but baby you can turn it on
She don't love me like you
She don't know what you do
And it's so hard
She don't care what you say
So just say it, say it anyway
It's so hard
All those years gone by
I only want to find a way to make it hard for you
All those years gone by
I only want to find a way to make it hard for you
She'll never forget if the way that she wished she don't feel the same
I only want to find a way to make it hard for you
She'll never forget if the way that she wished she don't feel the same
I only want to find a way to make it hard for you
She'll never forget if the way that she wished she don't feel no pain
I only want to find a way to make it up to you
She'll never forget if the way that she wished she don't feel the same
No, I only want to find a way
I only want to find
I only want to find
She don't love me like you
She don't love me like you
She don't love me like you
She don't love me like you
She don't love
No she don't
Lyrics submitted by eleanorigby
Love Me Like You Lyrics as written by Romeo William Stodart
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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quailty song good vid as well