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.
I'm a saint, I'm a bonafide servant
An angel on a bar stool
Anyone seen my wings?
I'm always losing the damn things
I'm the glue, I'm a permanent fixture
I'm an anchor in the concrete
If I went to find my fate
The foundation would break
Allies
I never had none
But that would be one to see, yeah
I'm your fate, yeah, your looking in the future
There's a bitter old man who's under your skin
But don't let him in
Capsize
Did anyone catch me?
Nobody broke my fall, yeah
I'm a saint on a mission from the head man
You got a shoe start running boy leave him to us
Leave them in your dust
An angel on a bar stool
Anyone seen my wings?
I'm always losing the damn things
I'm the glue, I'm a permanent fixture
I'm an anchor in the concrete
If I went to find my fate
The foundation would break
Allies
I never had none
But that would be one to see, yeah
I'm your fate, yeah, your looking in the future
There's a bitter old man who's under your skin
But don't let him in
Capsize
Did anyone catch me?
Nobody broke my fall, yeah
I'm a saint on a mission from the head man
You got a shoe start running boy leave him to us
Leave them in your dust
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Booyah.