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.
Who knows?
Maybe there isn't a vein of stars calling out my name
No glow from above our heads
Nothing there to see you down on your knees
Twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven
Off in the future, maybe there ain't no heaven
It's just you and me, and maybe it's just as well
And if there ain't no heaven, maybe there ain't no hell
Who knows?
Maybe there isn't a vein of stars calling out my name
Who knows?
Maybe there isn't a vein of stars calling out my name
Who knows?
(Calling out my name)
Who knows?
(Calling out my name)
Who knows?
(Calling out my name)
Who knows?
(Calling out my name)
Calling out my name
(Calling out my name)
Who knows?
(Calling out my name)
Who knows?
(Calling out my name)
Calling out my name
Maybe there isn't a vein of stars calling out my name
No glow from above our heads
Nothing there to see you down on your knees
Twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven
Off in the future, maybe there ain't no heaven
It's just you and me, and maybe it's just as well
And if there ain't no heaven, maybe there ain't no hell
Who knows?
Maybe there isn't a vein of stars calling out my name
Who knows?
Maybe there isn't a vein of stars calling out my name
Who knows?
(Calling out my name)
Who knows?
(Calling out my name)
Who knows?
(Calling out my name)
Who knows?
(Calling out my name)
Calling out my name
(Calling out my name)
Who knows?
(Calling out my name)
Who knows?
(Calling out my name)
Calling out my name
Lyrics submitted by christsizeshoes
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"Nothing there to see you down on your knees" = "No god listening to your prayers.
Meh. I think that if you can accept death as the END, then that can make you a strong and happy person.
I think "25, 26, 26," is just the writer lying on his back counting stars in the night.