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.
Needs to be a revolution
Maybe theirs to be less tension
They become into the nature
Far frustrating
Need some time for recollection
Maybe I don’t need this fixing
Need to be a thing to nature
So proceed with caution
I pull my heart from the end
You always took it and broke it over me
You say that I didn’t care
How could my dream turn to despair?
Turn to despair
There is temporary redemption
Your demise is my creation
Let me talk into the next one
Talking symbols
We need some hope and recollection
Maybe then there'll be less tension
Take the one and burn the clothes off
Proceed with caution
I pull my heart from the end
You always took it and broke it over me
You say that I didn’t care
How could my dream turn to despair?
Push it
GO!!!!!!!!!
Time to release the crease in the Beast
The blood shed and killing when will it seace
Clenching our fist at the snap of our Wrist
Time to get up and get down with the shh......
Too much sorrow, no tomorrow
Too much sorrow, no tomorrow
Too much sorrow, no tomorrow
Too much sorrow, no tomorrow
turn to despair
TURN TO DESPAIR
Maybe theirs to be less tension
They become into the nature
Far frustrating
Need some time for recollection
Maybe I don’t need this fixing
Need to be a thing to nature
So proceed with caution
I pull my heart from the end
You always took it and broke it over me
You say that I didn’t care
How could my dream turn to despair?
Turn to despair
There is temporary redemption
Your demise is my creation
Let me talk into the next one
Talking symbols
We need some hope and recollection
Maybe then there'll be less tension
Take the one and burn the clothes off
Proceed with caution
I pull my heart from the end
You always took it and broke it over me
You say that I didn’t care
How could my dream turn to despair?
Push it
GO!!!!!!!!!
Time to release the crease in the Beast
The blood shed and killing when will it seace
Clenching our fist at the snap of our Wrist
Time to get up and get down with the shh......
Too much sorrow, no tomorrow
Too much sorrow, no tomorrow
Too much sorrow, no tomorrow
Too much sorrow, no tomorrow
turn to despair
TURN TO DESPAIR
Lyrics submitted by 36cfgirl
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too much sorrow no tomorrow
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