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.
Tonight I looked at you and you smiled.
Will this feeling last forever?
Will it die and fade away?
Is this all that we’ll share?
I’ll pour my heart out if you’ll stay
And there’s a chance that you might say
“this could be never-ending.”
Through all these years
The sweat and tears,
And now it comes to this.
I can’t see that
The rituals of my life define me.
No words can express
How you’re loosing faith in me,
And I’m loosing strength from you.
I tried, you cried,
we said we’d try so hard.
It only goes so far,
Will we make a dent
Or will we only leave a scar?
I can’t believe that you turn your back
On everything you promised me.
I can’t believe that I turned my back
And now you’ve erased me.
I can’t believe that I turned my back.
I always knew that you’d turn your back.
And so it goes, well I suppose,
Its time, its time to move along now.
Times have changed and
Faces rearranged
Now you sing another song.
I tried, you cried,
we said we’d try so hard.
It only goes so far,
Will we make a dent
Or will we only leave a scar?
That night I looked at you and you smiled.
The feeling’s gone forever,
It’s been replaced with something new.
There’s nothing more for us to do.
I gave you everything that I had
And after all that we’ve been through,
This could be never-ending.
I tried, you cried,
we said we’d try so hard.
It only goes so far,
Will we make a dent
Or will we only leave a scar?
Will this feeling last forever?
Will it die and fade away?
Is this all that we’ll share?
I’ll pour my heart out if you’ll stay
And there’s a chance that you might say
“this could be never-ending.”
Through all these years
The sweat and tears,
And now it comes to this.
I can’t see that
The rituals of my life define me.
No words can express
How you’re loosing faith in me,
And I’m loosing strength from you.
I tried, you cried,
we said we’d try so hard.
It only goes so far,
Will we make a dent
Or will we only leave a scar?
I can’t believe that you turn your back
On everything you promised me.
I can’t believe that I turned my back
And now you’ve erased me.
I can’t believe that I turned my back.
I always knew that you’d turn your back.
And so it goes, well I suppose,
Its time, its time to move along now.
Times have changed and
Faces rearranged
Now you sing another song.
I tried, you cried,
we said we’d try so hard.
It only goes so far,
Will we make a dent
Or will we only leave a scar?
That night I looked at you and you smiled.
The feeling’s gone forever,
It’s been replaced with something new.
There’s nothing more for us to do.
I gave you everything that I had
And after all that we’ve been through,
This could be never-ending.
I tried, you cried,
we said we’d try so hard.
It only goes so far,
Will we make a dent
Or will we only leave a scar?
Lyrics submitted by Anti-Hero
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omg this sng is so great... gotta agree with Wake's explination... none to cryptic. i saw em do thhis live... wowness these guys are good!