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.
You stand apart with the sinking sunlight.
I just came to watch you smile.
Clarity.
You work so hard that you don't knowwhat it's like to be sure.
It's gonna work out anyway.
It's gonna work out anyway.
I just came to watch you smile.
Clarity.
You work so hard that you don't knowwhat it's like to be sure.
It's gonna work out anyway.
It's gonna work out anyway.
Lyrics submitted by godlikeboy
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This whole album, but especially this song makes me daydream about running through an empty city at night. Like being trapped in a strangely artificial world, all the flourescent glowing lights and buildings, but not a single human being anywhere. It's a strange fantasy and not specifically one that makes me feel good per se. The album title "Hex" makes me imagine I am cursed in some way to wander this city alone, all of the sparkling lights like the magic of a spell creating the empty city around me.
Holy shit, I had the exact same experience listening to this for the first time when I was 15. i actually became kind of obsessed with this album for a while and would go out of my way to find places to listen to it that gave me a view of the neon drenched nighttime city scape. Unlike you, I enjoyed the sensation, but then again I was a weirdo.