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.
What's so different
With the color of things
I feel the wind push the car,
And I look at you again.
When you turn to me
And ask me what I think.
I nod and then I sing along
To all the song you like.
There hasn't been a time that I have wished I wasn't here with you
Your eyes are good to me, they can see,
They can see what my mother sees.
They can see what my mother sees.
I fall asleep
Like some airplane crash
You drive a little more
So you don't have to wake me up
I can dream
And I can worry
But then you say to me
I know you better than you think
Why have all the bombs been blasting in the air?
Do you know what our love can do?
Oh slowly, you know me, like a man should.
I'm so sunny
Everyday
So sunny
With the color of things
I feel the wind push the car,
And I look at you again.
When you turn to me
And ask me what I think.
I nod and then I sing along
To all the song you like.
There hasn't been a time that I have wished I wasn't here with you
Your eyes are good to me, they can see,
They can see what my mother sees.
They can see what my mother sees.
I fall asleep
Like some airplane crash
You drive a little more
So you don't have to wake me up
I can dream
And I can worry
But then you say to me
I know you better than you think
Why have all the bombs been blasting in the air?
Do you know what our love can do?
Oh slowly, you know me, like a man should.
I'm so sunny
Everyday
So sunny
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This song is filled with appreciation!
I think the speaker is referring to someone (a man, apparently) who is tender like a mother after they have experienced stressful things: "I fall asleep like some airplane crash; you drive a little more so you don't have to wake me up."
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I think the speaker is referring to someone (a man, apparently) who is tender like a mother after they have experienced stressful things: "I fall asleep like some airplane crash; you drive a little more so you don't have to wake me up."
I can feel that this love has changed the speaker's life, or rather, their view on life: "What so different with the color of things?...Why have all the bombs been blasting in the air?"
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