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.
She is starting to live her life
From the inside out
Sound of failure calls her name
She's decided to hear it out
So go tell Britney
And go tell Gwen
She's not trying to go
Against all them
Because she's too scared, and she
She can't pretend
To understand where it begins or ends
Or what it means to be dead
It's just a sound going through your head
Let them go on, let them go on
Standing there in the graveyard
While the moon sprays its fireworks in your hair
The sound of failure calls her name
She's decided to hear it out
So go tell Britney
And go tell Gwen
She's not trying to go
Against all them
Because she's too scared, and she
She can't pretend
To understand where it begins or ends
Or what it means to be dead
It's just a sound going through your head
Let them go on, let them go on
Where it begins or ends
What it means to be dead
It's just a sound going through your head
Let them go on, let them go on
Where it begins or ends
Or what it means to be dead
It's just a sound going through your head
Let them go on, let them go on
She doesn't know where it will take her
And she's going into the unknown
From the inside out
Sound of failure calls her name
She's decided to hear it out
So go tell Britney
And go tell Gwen
She's not trying to go
Against all them
Because she's too scared, and she
She can't pretend
To understand where it begins or ends
Or what it means to be dead
It's just a sound going through your head
Let them go on, let them go on
Standing there in the graveyard
While the moon sprays its fireworks in your hair
The sound of failure calls her name
She's decided to hear it out
So go tell Britney
And go tell Gwen
She's not trying to go
Against all them
Because she's too scared, and she
She can't pretend
To understand where it begins or ends
Or what it means to be dead
It's just a sound going through your head
Let them go on, let them go on
Where it begins or ends
What it means to be dead
It's just a sound going through your head
Let them go on, let them go on
Where it begins or ends
Or what it means to be dead
It's just a sound going through your head
Let them go on, let them go on
She doesn't know where it will take her
And she's going into the unknown
Lyrics submitted by christsizeshoes
The Sound of Failure/It's Dark... Is It Always This Dark?? song meanings
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"or what it means to be dead"
Beatles reference?