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.
Leave me dreaming on the bed
See you right back here tomorrow
For the next round.
Keep this scene inside your head
As the bruises turn to yellow
The swelling goes down.
And if you're ever around
In the city or the suburbs
Of this town
Be sure to come around
I'll be wallowing in sorrow
Wearing a frown
Like Pierrot the clown.
Saw you crashing around the bay
Never seen you act so shallow
Or look so brown.
Remember all the thing's you'd say
How your promises rang hollow
As you threw me into the ground.
And if you're ever around
In the city or the suburbs
Of this town
Be sure to come around
I'll be wallowing in sorrow
Wearing a frown
Like Pierrot the clown.
When I dream , I dream your lips
When I dream , I dream your kiss
When I dream , I dream your fists
Your fists, your fists.
Leave me bleeding on the bed
See you right back here tomorrow
For the next round.
Keep this scene inside your head
As the bruises turn to yellow
The swelling goes down.
And if you're ever around
In the city or the suburbs
Of this town
Be sure to come around
I'll be wallowing in sorrow
Wearing a frown
Like Pierrot the clown.
See you right back here tomorrow
For the next round.
Keep this scene inside your head
As the bruises turn to yellow
The swelling goes down.
And if you're ever around
In the city or the suburbs
Of this town
Be sure to come around
I'll be wallowing in sorrow
Wearing a frown
Like Pierrot the clown.
Saw you crashing around the bay
Never seen you act so shallow
Or look so brown.
Remember all the thing's you'd say
How your promises rang hollow
As you threw me into the ground.
And if you're ever around
In the city or the suburbs
Of this town
Be sure to come around
I'll be wallowing in sorrow
Wearing a frown
Like Pierrot the clown.
When I dream , I dream your lips
When I dream , I dream your kiss
When I dream , I dream your fists
Your fists, your fists.
Leave me bleeding on the bed
See you right back here tomorrow
For the next round.
Keep this scene inside your head
As the bruises turn to yellow
The swelling goes down.
And if you're ever around
In the city or the suburbs
Of this town
Be sure to come around
I'll be wallowing in sorrow
Wearing a frown
Like Pierrot the clown.
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This song is so beautiful and sad. i get an image of a woman who is in love with a man, who said he loved her and promised her all this stuff... now he is just using her and he has lost all feeling and emotion for her.. it makes me want to cry.