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 are the lighthouse, the seamark
The tempests created this tide
I'm pulled to the black silver ocean
Where the current and the heavens collide
You are the brick
I am so unpredictable
Led by the current away
Your solid stage is so necessary to save
All those who stray
You are the navigator who never could lead
We were lost in the silver sea
I was the ship who was too proud to ever sink
I am your thought but the water is amnesia
My name is on the tip of your tongue
My image is slipping
But your memory is gripping it
This is my breath in your lungs
You are the navigator who never could lead
We were lost in the silver sea
I was the ship who was too proud to ever sink
Echo, my voice is an echo
Of places I don't know
And stories I've been told
Echo, we all are connected
A lighthouse, a voyage
For history's sake
Would you please take notice? (x4)
The tempests created this tide
I'm pulled to the black silver ocean
Where the current and the heavens collide
You are the brick
I am so unpredictable
Led by the current away
Your solid stage is so necessary to save
All those who stray
You are the navigator who never could lead
We were lost in the silver sea
I was the ship who was too proud to ever sink
I am your thought but the water is amnesia
My name is on the tip of your tongue
My image is slipping
But your memory is gripping it
This is my breath in your lungs
You are the navigator who never could lead
We were lost in the silver sea
I was the ship who was too proud to ever sink
Echo, my voice is an echo
Of places I don't know
And stories I've been told
Echo, we all are connected
A lighthouse, a voyage
For history's sake
Would you please take notice? (x4)
Lyrics submitted by thatgirlnamedbiz
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It reminds me of my relationship with my mother too. She's always the solid, stedy one, and I'm the wild child.
Also reminds me of Endless Sunshine on the Spotless Mind...
and I doo see some lines that could reference Bush....
Ah, damn, I just don't know where I'm going with this song.
I do love this song.