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.
If I can't be a brave boy
Jumping off of a head of a mountain
And then I wonder why the thought of it
Brings me to the edge of my bed
If I can't tell the difference between a water fall and a fountain
Is it the way you looked at me
Then moment I said
That I can sit here waiting for hours on your arrival
I could sit here for days waiting for you to come out and play
I could die in a minute and the one chance for survival
Would be the sound of your beautiful name
And if I cried would you hold me
And softly whisper everything is ok
Because I live to breathe the sky that hangs high above you
And the tears that I had before you
Will simply say that I love you
That I love you
Jumping off of a head of a mountain
And then I wonder why the thought of it
Brings me to the edge of my bed
If I can't tell the difference between a water fall and a fountain
Is it the way you looked at me
Then moment I said
That I can sit here waiting for hours on your arrival
I could sit here for days waiting for you to come out and play
I could die in a minute and the one chance for survival
Would be the sound of your beautiful name
And if I cried would you hold me
And softly whisper everything is ok
Because I live to breathe the sky that hangs high above you
And the tears that I had before you
Will simply say that I love you
That I love you
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This is supposedly justin's first song he wrote.
Sounds like hes really tripping over himself for this girl though