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 and me
A little different though we tried to stay the same
It never leaves
And when it changes, it is still a waiting game
I wait for a lonely breath
I wait to surface from this death
Wait for the light to come
And take away these images I get
In my head
More than ever
I need to feel you
More than ever
I see the real you
You are me
A worst disaster would be waking up alone
Now we're free
We're drifting out like all the ones we didn't know
I wait for a silence here
I wait for things to disappear
Wait for the ground to stop moving underneath my only fear
If I lose you, I don't know
More than ever
I need to feel you
It's all around
More than ever
I see the real you
And it's around
And it's around
And it's around
And it's around
Everything, everything
We have had
Out of sight out of mind
Given that
What I see when I dream
Hurts like hell and back
Everything, everything
We have had
Out of sight out of mind
Given that
What I see when I dream
Hurts like hell and back
More than ever
I need to feel you
It's all around
More than ever
I see the real you
And it's around
More than ever
I need to feel you
It's all around
More than ever
I see the real you
And it's around
And it's around
And it's around
And it's around
A little different though we tried to stay the same
It never leaves
And when it changes, it is still a waiting game
I wait for a lonely breath
I wait to surface from this death
Wait for the light to come
And take away these images I get
In my head
More than ever
I need to feel you
More than ever
I see the real you
You are me
A worst disaster would be waking up alone
Now we're free
We're drifting out like all the ones we didn't know
I wait for a silence here
I wait for things to disappear
Wait for the ground to stop moving underneath my only fear
If I lose you, I don't know
More than ever
I need to feel you
It's all around
More than ever
I see the real you
And it's around
And it's around
And it's around
And it's around
Everything, everything
We have had
Out of sight out of mind
Given that
What I see when I dream
Hurts like hell and back
Everything, everything
We have had
Out of sight out of mind
Given that
What I see when I dream
Hurts like hell and back
More than ever
I need to feel you
It's all around
More than ever
I see the real you
And it's around
More than ever
I need to feel you
It's all around
More than ever
I see the real you
And it's around
And it's around
And it's around
And it's around
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